• Glocal Citizens

  • 著者: Florence Adu
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Glocal Citizens

著者: Florence Adu
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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.
    © 2024 LEAP Transmedia Productions
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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.
© 2024 LEAP Transmedia Productions
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  • Episode 1: Coming Soon: Glocal Citizens
    2019/11/22
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! Let me introduce myself, I'm your host Florence Amerley Adu. I'm CEO and co-founder of LEAP Transmedia. Our vision is to seeds and sows a fertile ground for improving education and economic outcomes for Ghanaians and Africans across the diaspora. Do you dream about “doing something” abroad? Then consider Glocal Citizens required listening in the due diligence, trusted advisor and inspiration department. In each episode, I visit with dynamic diasporans making local and global impact designing and applying their craft. We explore how their passions have rooted them throughout their lives, while at the same time feeding the branches compelling them to keep reaching “beyond.” We also discuss the personal and professional dimensions of glocal citizenship. Then we round out the discussion with a deep dive into to the business of their business, covering the technical and operational components of the work of “doing something.”
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    2 分
  • Episode 248: When Refuge in Words Finds Voice with Vamba Sherif
    2024/11/19
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week our Writing as Activism @ Pa Gya! 2024 continues in conversation wth 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. Click the and check out Vamba’s Pa Gya! session (https://www.youtube.com/live/GIP5DqSjC_k?si=uV_GjrsM0mwn_wJK) centering his latest book The Emperor's Son. Where to find Vamba? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vamba-sherif-50767755/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vamba.omarsherif/) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/vamba.sherif) On X (https://x.com/vambasherif) Vamba’s essential Pan-African activism reading list: [The Radience of the King)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheRadianceoftheKing) by Camara Laye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye) and excerpt to the introduction by Toni Morrison (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/08/09/on-the-radiance-of-the-king/?srsltid=AfmBOoqxwN5ZH14QIhyQGo80szFC7bLl7aF7ogRxSVSw6N6M5oh1mwJc) Other topics of interest: Who was Samori Touré (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samori_Ture)? Kolahun, Liberia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolahun_District) Liberia’s First Civil War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberian_Civil_War) About Edward Wilmot Blyden, father of Pan-Africanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wilmot_Blyden#:~:text=As%20a%20writer%2C%20Blyden%20has,of%20the%20%22African%20race%22.) About the Gulf War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War) Senegalese filmmaker, Ousmane Sembène (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne) About Groningen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen) Why lekker (https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-expat-news/why-dutch-always-lekker) is so sweet… The Comet (https://youtu.be/aQzgZTmwAPc?si=O9t7qHFyV2PeYLYa) by W.E.B Dubois
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  • Episode 247: From the Clap to the Dance with Aduke Gomez
    2024/11/12
    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 seesion taking place during our interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urYu7IA0ENE), 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 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRWjtk1Z9L6RlaKbZ88sy5w) - 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 (lin https://www.childlifeline.org/mission) - 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 LInedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aduke-gomez-503668/?originalSubdomain=ng) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/adukegomez/?hl=en) OnX (https://x.com/duksyg) What’s Aduke’s essential Pan-African reading list? Mariama Bâ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariama_B%C3%A2), in The Paris Review (https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/05/13/feminize-your-canon-mariama-ba/) and more (https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/library-weekly/mariama-ba) Ama Atta Aidoo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_Ata_Aidoo) Buchi Emecheta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchi_Emecheta) Florence “Flora” Nwapa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Nwapa) Other topic of interest: Return migration: Brazilians in Nigeria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilians_in_Nigeria) The Nigerian Brazillian Project (https://nigerianbrazilianproject.org/aduke-gomez/) About the Emanicapados of Brazil (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2512522) Who are [Tabom peoples?}(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabom_people) Biola Alabi Media (https://biolaalabimedia.com/about-us/) Special Guest: Aduke Gomez.
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    37 分

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