Glocal Citizens

Florence Adu
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Glocal Citizens

Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more just and sustainable world, both in their own communities and on a global scale.

  1. Episode 252: Gone to Ghana with Cordie Aziz

    4 DAYS AGO

    Episode 252: Gone to Ghana with Cordie Aziz

    Anniversary Greetings Glocal Citizens! We’ve been coming together nearly every week for five years!! On this day in 2019, this two-part interview with my first guest launched the podcast. In celebration and commemoration, stay tuned for episodes throughout the year revisiting past guests and catching up “Where are they now?” style. This week it’s a flashback to the very beginning with our first guest, environmentalist and social entrepreneur, Cordie Aziz. It’s delighting that this conversation stands the test of time and is as relevant then as now. Check out the show notes for Cordie’s other episodes to find out more about her then. And come back next week to catch up on Cordie’s now. Where to find Cordie? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook On X What’s Cordie reading? Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer Topics of interest: On Dumsor Kwasia! Take a trip to Dodowa Market What is waste picking? About GIZ Ghana What is PET? A bit about the recycilng lifecycle of a plastic bottle Special Guest: Cordie Aziz.

    41 min
  2. Episode 251: Weaving Ourselves into Stories with Ivana Akotowaa Ofori

    DEC 10

    Episode 251: Weaving Ourselves into Stories with Ivana Akotowaa Ofori

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week is the finale of our writing as activism series at the 2024 Pa Gya! Literary Festival. It has been such a pleasure bringing the works and words of these writers to a wider audience. It has been a wonderful multi-generational compilation of wisdom across genres. Joining us this week is Ivana Akotowaa Ofori, a Ghanaian storyteller known also by the alias, “The Spider Kid.” She is a weaver of words in many forms, including fiction, non-fiction and spoken-word poetry. Akotowaa has been nominated for various awards for her prose writing. Her work is included in the Flash Fiction Ghana anthology, Kenkey for Ewes and Other Very Short Stories, and the Writivism anthology, And Morning Will Come. She is also included in the Africa Risen Anthology 2022 with her short story, “Exiles of Witchery”. Akotowaa’s debut novella, The Year of Return (2023) has been published in the US with Android Press and in West Africa with Smartline Publishers. Writing aside, Akotowaa spends much of her time looking for excuses to make everything purple and this imaginative, playful spirit definitely shines through our conversation. Where to find Akotowaa? On the Ceiling On Akotowaa’s Blog On LinkedIn On Instagram On X On Facebook What’s Akotowaa watching? Dr. Who Sherlock What’s Akotowaa reading? The Color Purple by Alica Walker How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair Saltwater Slavery by Stephanie E. Smallwood Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie Other topics of interest: Black Girls Glow and the KOSHKA Sound Residency Burma Camp, Accra About Roald Dahl Ananasesem About Kente Cloth Special Guest: Ivana Akotowaa Ofori.

    1h 4m
  3. Episode 250: Why Joyful Matters with Nii Ayikwei Parkes

    DEC 3

    Episode 250: Why Joyful Matters with Nii Ayikwei Parkes

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! We are nearing the end of our Writing As Activism series @ the 2024 Pa Gya! Literary Festival in Accra. This week, Ghanaian writer and editor winning acclaim as a children's author, poet, broadcaster and novelist, Nii Ayikwei Parkes joins the conversation. Winner of multiple international awards including the ACRAG (Arts Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana) award, his novel Tail of the Blue Bird won France's two major prizes for translated fiction – Prix Baudelaire and Prix Laure Bataillon – in 2014. Nii Ayikwei is the founder of flipped eye publishing, a leading small press; serves on the boards of World Literature Today and the AKO Caine Prize; and was chair of judges for the 2020 Commonwealth Prize. Translated in multiple languages, he has also written for National Geographic, Financial Times, the Guardian and Lonely Planet. His most recent books are The Ga Picture Alphabet and Azúcar, a novel. Currently Producer of Literature and Talks at Brighton Festival, he is also author of two collections of poetry The Makings of You (2010) and The Geez (2020), both published by Peepal Tree Press. In this conversation, we journey with Nii Ayikwei through his works, his entreprenuership, his love for food and rum, and much more! See Nii in converation at Pa Gya! here. Where to find Nii Ayikwei? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook On X On YouTube On Tik Tok On BlueSky What’s Nii Ayikwei listening to? Gene Noble Blues Man Robert Cray The Roots Cody Chesnutt + The Roots and Headphone Masterpiece Nii’s Pan-African Activism essential reading list: Howard W. French, Born In Blackness Mongo Beti’s, The Poor Christ of Bomba Ama Atta Aidoo’s, No Sweetness Here Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Mask You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, Zoë Wicomb Kofi Awoonor, This Earth My Brother Other topics of interest: Historic Jamestown, Accra Oto Blohum, Old Accra North Kaneshie Thornton Heath, UK About Courttia Newland Learn more about Nii’s uncle Frank Kobina Parkes Nkyinkyim in the Adinkra On Ghana’s Chop Bars About Spanish-Caribbean Rum About Rhum Agricole Special Guest: Nii Ayikwei Parkes.

    58 min
  4. Episode 249: Universally Speaking with Dagogo Hart

    NOV 26

    Episode 249: Universally Speaking with Dagogo Hart

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week writing as activism is taking us to a land with a long history of activist thought ans action - Ireland. Born and raised in Nigeria, Dagogo Hart migrated to Ireland at an early age to complete his studies and now calls it home along with his young family. He is a poet, playwright, and spoken word artist whose words have wowed audiences from bar basements to electric picnic stages. He started performing in Dublin in 2016 in open mics and poetry slams, which saw him win the Slam Sunday grand slam and become an All Ireland poetry slam finalist. Since then he has performed for festivals like Electric Picnic, St. Patricks, Dublin Fringe, Drogheda literary festival, Cuirt International Poetry Festival, and First fortnight. He is one-third of the collective WeAreGriot - a poetry collective that curates art events around poetry. His personal works include, The Home Project (a series of poetry films), RedBeard Paddy (a poetry short film), Mmanwu (a play in the 2023 Dublin Fringe Festival), See True (a spoken word variety show) and Boy Child (a spoken-word play), the last two co-written with FeliSpeaks, Talkatives; a hip-hop and poetry slam as part of WeAreGriot. As you’ll learn in our conversation and glean from his works, his poetry is inspired by his hometown in Lagos, Nigeria, and his experience since moving to Ireland. See Dagogo on stage at Pa Gya! 2024 performing his words here and in discussion about his works here. Where else to find Dagogo? WeAreGriot On LinkedIn On Instagram On X What’s Dagogo watching? Fences (film) Shōgun (series) What’s Dagogo listenining to? Alice Smith sings “I Put a Spell on You” Other topics of interest: Surulere, Nigeria Tralee, Ireland Cork, Ireland Visit Dublin, Ireland and the Clondalkin Tower The Abbey Theatre and The Gate Theatre Port Harcourt Tourist Beach More on Chucky Ar la Inshallah Where are the Irish language speaking towns in Ireland? Special Guest: Dagogo Hart.

    45 min
  5. Episode 248: When Refuge in Words Finds Voice with Vamba Sherif

    NOV 19

    Episode 248: When Refuge in Words Finds Voice with Vamba Sherif

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week our Writing as Activism @ Pa Gya! 2024 continues in conversation with Liberian novelist, journalist, film critic, curator, speaker and lecturer of African Literature and Arts at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Vamba Sherif. Vamba has written several novels, including The Emperor's Son (2024), a novel about emperor Samori Touré, The Witness (2011), Bound to Secrecy (2007), The Kingdom of Sebah (2003), Land of My Fathers (1999), and the memoire Unprecedented Love (2021). He has curated several anthologies, including the bestselling Black: Afro-European literature in the Netherlands and Belgium. His work, which has been translated in many languages, deals with themes such as migration, belonging, love, the history of slavery, colonialism and the African resistance to it, and the mysteries of existence. These are all themes that Vamba brings to vivid life in our discussion. Click the and check out Vamba’s Pa Gya! session centering his latest book The Emperor's Son. Where to find Vamba? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook On X Vamba’s essential Pan-African activism reading list: [The Radience of the King)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Radiance_of_the_King) by Camara Laye and excerpt to the introduction by Toni Morrison Other topics of interest: Who was Samori Touré? Kolahun, Liberia Liberia’s First Civil War About Edward Wilmot Blyden, father of Pan-Africanism About the Gulf War Senegalese filmmaker, Ousmane Sembène About Groningen Why lekker is so sweet… The Comet by W.E.B Dubois

    1h 2m
  6. Episode 247: From the Clap to the Dance with Aduke Gomez

    NOV 12

    Episode 247: From the Clap to the Dance with Aduke Gomez

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! Next up in our Writing as Activism series, this week’s episode, recorded at the 2024 Pa Gya! festival (in case you are wondering, this is the session taking place during our interview, features Nigerian poet and children’s book author, Aduke Gomez. Aduke embraced writing in the past decade after a career in law and finance. She now utilises her legal and advisory skills to assist in business and creative development. Commencing her career in legal practice with the law firm of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, she later worked for many years in various leadership roles within Ecobank Nigeria Ltd and Leadway Pensure PFA. She is regularly called to speak and moderate on topics related to her interest in history and culture and these have included sessions at Cornell University; The Institute of Africa and Diaspora Studies at the University of Lagos; the Lagos State Record and Archive Bureau; the annual conference of the Lagos Studies Association; the Ake Festival; and the Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) amongst others. Her published collection of poems have featured as festival books for both the LABAF and the Ake Festival. And her children's books have also featured at previous editions of LABAF and Akada Children's Book Festival. She is currently the Chair of the Steering Committee of Art4Life - an initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Health established to introduce art and the practice of art into the entire healthcare process. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Open House Lagos as well as the Advisory Board of Lagos Biennial. She volunteers on the Board of Child Life Line - an NGO established for the welfare of street children. In this conversation we not only get to know how Aduke pivoted into arts and public service, we also get to know more about her local in the context of her paternal ancestor's return from Brazil to Lagos. This speaks volume to the idea of activism as a way of being. Where to find Aduke? On LinkedIn On Instagram OnX Who is on Aduke’s essential Pan-African reading list? Mariama Bâ, in The Paris Review and more Ama Atta Aidoo Buchi Emecheta Florence “Flora” Nwapa Other topic of interest: Return migration: Brazilians in Nigeria The Nigerian Brazillian Project About the Emanicapados of Brazil Who are Tabom peoples? Biola Alabi Media Special Guest: Aduke Gomez.

    37 min
  7. Episode 246: Writing as Activism: Ghanaian Voices and Pan-African Perspectives Across Genres with Nicole Amarteifio, Kwame Dawes and Nydia A. Swaby Live at Pa Gya!

    NOV 5

    Episode 246: Writing as Activism: Ghanaian Voices and Pan-African Perspectives Across Genres with Nicole Amarteifio, Kwame Dawes and Nydia A. Swaby Live at Pa Gya!

    New Month Greetings Glocal Citizens! The first Tuesday in November represents the official US election day. As polling evolves for higher participation and greater inclusion, most states offer early voting so millions have already cast thier votes. Throughout this year of elections across the globe, the build up to the two where I have a say, the United States and Ghana, has played a critical role in inspiring my most activist self to move the dial in different ways toward manifesting a new world. Coincidentally, this week on the podcast kicks off our Writing as Activism series in coordination with the Pa Gya! Literary Festival in Accra. Recorded live at the eighth installment of the festivaland in the days that followed, starting the panel, Writing as Activism: Ghanaian Voices and Pan-African Perspectives Across Genres, the conversation starts with a distinguished voices covering works of poetry, screenwriting, and nonfiction scholarship with: Nicole Amarteifio is an acclaimed Ghanaian-American TV/film writer, director, and producer. She successfully launched the hit web series 'An African City’ - dubbed by CNN and the BBC as Africa’s answer to ‘Sex and the City’. Returning Glocal Citizen, Nydia A. Swaby is a Black feminist artist, researcher and curator. Her practice engages archives, autoethnography, photography, the moving image, and the imagination to explore the gendered, diasporic and affective dimensions of Black being and becoming. In addition to curating artistic programmes, she creates visual narratives, research and performance texts. Nydia's first book, Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives, was published by Lawrence Wishart in October 2024 as part of LW's Radical Black Women book series. She is also developing an artist film, Amy and Me in the Archive, which will be screened at the forthcoming Singapore International Photography Festival 2024. And Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Kwame Dawes, author of numerous books of poetry and other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection is Sturge Town (Peepal Tree Press, UK 2023). Dawes is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University. He teaches in the Pacific MFA Program and is the Series Editor of the African Poetry Book Series, Director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. He is a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Kwame Dawes is the winner of the prestigious Windham/Campbell Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2022 Dawes was awarded the Order of Distinction Commander class by the Government of Jamaica. He is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica (2024-2027). Click through to find out more about the Pa Gya! Literary Festival and the Writer’s Project Ghana and watch this and other festival panels at WPGTV. Where to find Nicole? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook On YouTube On X Where to find Kwame? On LinkedIn On Instagram On X On Facebook Where to find Nydia? On Glocal Citizens On LinkedIn On Instagram On X Other topics of interest and the Essential Pan-African Activism reading list coming soon! *This audio recording has been edited for clarity from the original video recording. Special Guests: Kwame Dawes, Nicole Amarteifio, and Nydia Swaby.

    53 min
  8. Episode 245: Health, Human Rights and Resilience with Aggrey Aluso and the Women of Africa Post-Pandemic Empowerment and Advocacy Programme

    OCT 29

    Episode 245: Health, Human Rights and Resilience with Aggrey Aluso and the Women of Africa Post-Pandemic Empowerment and Advocacy Programme

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week is the final installment in our collaboration with Bisi Bright’s Livewell Initiative and the Women of Africa Post-Pandemic Empowerment and Advocacy Programme with support from Gilead Sciences USA. In a fitting conclusion, Aggrey Aluso, the Director, Africa Region and global policy lead for the Pandemic Action Network, driving strategic advocacy efforts in Africa and globally joins the conversation. Born, raised and currently based in Kenya, Aggrey also serves as the incoming Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), PAN’s networked advocacy partner, where he is mobilizing advocates to champion an Africa-centric, globally-facing resilience agenda. He brings over 15 years of experience in advancing intersectional justice, using citizen-led, rights-based approaches in Africa. Previously, he served as an Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa’s (OSIEA) Health and Rights program senior manager. He also coordinated the Open Society Africa (Pan Africa) Vaccine Justice to advance Africa’s vaccine-related research, development, and manufacturing. He served as the University of Manitoba’s Global Institute for Public Health’s East African Policy and Advocacy Manager. Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic, Aggrey offers excellent insights into the current M-pox crisis as well as a thoughtful discussion on the global policy landscape around elevating health as a human right for all. All are invited to join this week’s program on Thursday, October 31st at 1PM WAT using this link Where to find Aggrey? On LinkedIn On [Instragram](linnk https://www.instagram.com/aggreyaluso/) On Facebook On X What’s Aggrey reading? As a Man Thinketh by James Allen 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and other books by Yuval Noah Harari Whats Aggrey watching? The Lincoln Lawyer New Amsterdam Other topics of interest: Nyanza, Kenya More on Mpox and zoonotic diseases UN Summit of the Future The Global Fund Kenya Finance Bill Protests About Wangari Maathai About the [Mpox Joint Action Plan](https://www.afro.who.int/news/african-cdc-and-who-launch-joint-continental-plan-scale-mpox-outbreak-response#:~:text=Priority%20actions%20are%20outlined%20for,comprising%20members%20from%20key%20partners.&text=About%20Africa%20CDC-,The%20Africa%20Centres%20for%20Disease%20Control%20and%20Prevention%20(Africa%20CDC,prevention%20and%20control%20of%20diseases.) The Man Died Film Special Guests: Adebisi Bright and Aggrey Aluso.

    57 min
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Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more just and sustainable world, both in their own communities and on a global scale.

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  • Creator
    Florence Adu
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    251
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 LEAP Transmedia Productions
  • Show Website
    Glocal Citizens

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