Forget the Africa you think you know. This is Radio Workshop. With real stories about young Africans. From Freetown to Cape Town, hear the world’s youngest population. One story at a time.
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Freetown Podcasts
From the vibrant, bustling streets of Freetown to the gritty concrete wilderness of the South Bronx, "I Don't Subscribe," hosted by Ibrahim Daffae, is revolutionizing the concept of leadership. This captivating podcast takes the raw materials of adversity. It transforms them into invaluable strategic assets, empowering leaders to convert their childhood struggles into innovative breakthroughs in the boardroom. Each episode is a powerful exploration of resilience, infused with trauma-informed ...
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There’s always two sides to a story. Definitely you know that by now. We bring you the “yarns” on Relationships and also Lifestyle. Definitely this is a Freetown.
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Living Abroad Black is a podcast about the experience of one family as they pick up and leave the DMV and live in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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How can we bridge the gap between knowledge and policy? The Institute for Governance Reform is a research and advocacy think tank based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We believe that weak public oversight of resource allocation and budget management is one of the underlying causes of poverty, inequality, and tension in Sierra Leone. We support public and private institutions to respond to economic development challenges, poverty, and state effectiveness.
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The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira Glass. The Kitchen ...
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A podcast series from Africell. Presented by legendary playwright, historian and traditional storyteller Charlie Haffner, this podcast series explores the personalities, places and events that have shaped Sierra Leone, one of Africa’s most extraordinary countries. Presented: Charlie Haffner Written and created: Charlie Haffner and Sam Williams Edited: Nadia Mehdi Executive producers: Sam Williams and Max O'Brien Sound design and mixing: Naomi Clarke Special thanks: Abdul Karim Sesay, Shadi G ...
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For James Acaster 2016 is the greatest year for music of all time. Following a breakup James set out to rekindle his love for music by buying hundreds of new and niche releases from 2016. Now he's sharing his obsession with fellow comedians, exploring his favourite albums: from Beyoncé's internet-breaking Lemonade, to Colombian math rock fusion, and everything in between.
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The Cultured Views podcast explores the experiences and life journeys of individuals who identify as "third cultured”. These are people who have lived or experienced multiple cultures and have blended aspects of those cultures in their own identity. Cultured Views is a deep dive into third cultured experiences. We will be unlocking memories that make us nostalgic, laugh or cringe. The podcast is designed to be both informative and relatable, with a focus on how the guests have navigated thei ...
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The Daily Soundcheck brings you every Phish Soundcheck where audio circulates. Episodes run Monday-Friday with commentary, history and interviews. Hosted by Myke "LawnMemo" Menio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The COVID-19 situation in Sierra Leone, and its impact on health care overall, is ever-evolving. We invite you to stay in the know by listening to these real-time updates, in which Jon Lascher, executive director of Partners In Health-Sierra Leone, speaks with staff about the latest news and efforts to combat COVID-19 and protect the health of Sierra Leone. ---------- Partners In Health (PIH) began working in Sierra Leone in 2014, during the height of history's worst Ebola outbreak. Througho ...
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Hidden Kitchens Texas — Hosted by Willie Nelson
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58:47Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright, along with some wild and extraordinary tellers, take us across Texas and share some of their Hidden Kitchen stories. Gas station tacos, ice houses, Chili Queens, Stubb's BBQ, cowboy kitchens, car wash kitchens, space food. With special guests Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Kinky Friedman, Joe Nick Patoski, …
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THE TRUST MULTIPLIER: How Vulnerability Turns Teams Into Legends
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16:33Send us a text Most corporate team building is a colossal waste of time and money. Ropes courses, personality tests, and forced social hours rarely move the needle on deep operational trust. Why? Because they skim the surface and don't address the underlying emotional currents that each individual brings to team dynamics. In this episode of "I Don'…
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America Eats - 1930s WPA Chronicle of Food, Ritual and Celebration at The Library of Congress
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16:40Fish Fries, political BBQs, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating customs and recipes across the United States. America Eats, a WPA project, sent writers like Nelson Algren, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Stetson Kennedy out to document America’s relationship with food during t…
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Emotional Alchemy: How Elite Leaders Convert Panic Into Profit
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15:59Send us a text The deal is on the table—millions at stake. Your team is frayed, and the room is thick with unspoken fear and ambition. Most leaders try to suppress emotion and operate on "pure logic." But what if the biggest leverage point isn't in your spreadsheet—it's in the human current flowing through that room? Welcome to Emotional Alchemy, a…
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The clock is ticking for 17-year-old Nonhlanhla Mashabana. For months, she’s buried herself in her textbooks. Now, instead of enjoying her matric dance like any teenager should, she can't shake her anxiety about the make-or-break final exams. They're just weeks away. In South Africa, the odds are against her: just 12 out of every 100 students who s…
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The National Archives – The What and the Why
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28:40“From the very beginning the intent was that the American people needed to be able to access the records so that we would be able to hold the government accountable for its actions.” - David Ferriero During the first Trump administration, when access to certain websites and information was being threatened, we started our Keepers series about activ…
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In honor of Youth Day and the enduring resilience of South African students since the 1976 student protests, we're re-releasing Finding The Right Words. Meet Nonhlanhla Mashabana, a spelling bee champion and high-achieving high school student who has the odds stacked against her. Growing up poor in post-Apartheid South Africa, she carries the weigh…
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Pressure Points: The C-Suite Playbook for Crisis Arbitrage
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20:12Send us a text Ibrahim Daffae delivers a masterclass in transforming adversity into an executive advantage in this powerful episode of "I Don't Subscribe." Opening with a visceral Q4 scenario - collapsing numbers, board pressure, and industry disruption - Ibrahim immediately establishes the high-stakes reality C-suite leaders face daily. The episod…
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E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial - The Worst Video Game Ever?
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26:17Deep within the National Museum of American History’s vaults is a battered Atari case containing what’s known as “the worst video game of all time.” The game is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and it was so bad that not even the might of Steven Spielberg could save it. It was so loathsome that all remaining copies were buried deep in the desert. And it…
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Ruby is a 30-year-old mother of three, and she’s ready to do whatever it takes to give her kids a better life. Even if it means leaving her family in Zimbabwe to become a live-in care worker in the UK. Now, halfway across the world from everyone she loves, Ruby works around the clock to make enough money to bring her family together again. But can …
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The Boardroom Superpower You Never Knew You Had
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42:56Send us a text Ever wonder why some executives seem to possess an almost supernatural ability to read rooms, anticipate problems, and navigate crises with unshakable precision? What if I told you this isn't just talent—it's neuroscience in action. In this episode of "I Don't Subscribe," Ibrahim Daffae reveals how neural adaptations developed throug…
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Radio Pacific - A New Show From KALW San Francisco
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52:26The Kitchen Sisters are excited to share the first episode of Radio Pacific, a new monthly show from KALW in San Francisco that takes a deep and creative look at the issues facing California and the rest of our country today. The hour-long, monthly program features journalists, writers, and documentarians who are grappling with life in the country’…
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Send us a text Have you ever watched a hawk circle in a storm? While others seek shelter, the hawk’s focus sharpens. This episode explores how brains shaped by adversity can transform neural burdens into mastery and extraordinary leadership. Ibrahim Daffae guides you through the paradox of executive leadership: how early life challenges may build u…
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Plessy AND Ferguson—Activism and the Fight for Justice and Equal Rights
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15:52In 1892, Homer Plessy, a mixed race shoemaker in New Orleans, was arrested, convicted and fined $25 for taking a seat in a whites-only train car. This was not a random act. It was a carefully planned move by the Citizen’s Committee, an activist group of Free People of Color, to fight a new law being enacted in Louisiana which threatened to re-impos…
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Send us a text Step into the boardroom-and navigate the intricate battlefield of the mind. In this episode, Ibrahim Daffae dismantles conventional leadership myths by revealing how early life adversity forges extraordinary executive capabilities. Meet Thomas, a Fortune 500 Chief Strategy Officer whose intense market focus is not mere obsession but …
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Send us a text **Step into the boardroom—and navigate the intricate battlefield of the mind.** In the premiere of Series 2, Ibrahim Daffae challenges conventional leadership wisdom. True executive strength is forged in adversity, and my journey from Freetown to the South Bronx has taught me that survival shapes leadership more than credentials ever…
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Pie Down Here: Listening Back—Alabama Sharecroppers and Communist Organizers, 1930s
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37:43Pie Down Here — Produced by Signal Hill In the 1980s, when Robin D.G. Kelley was 24 years old, he took a bus trip to the Deep South. He was researching and recording oral histories with farmworkers and Communist Party members who had organized a sharecroppers union in Alabama during the Great Depression. Kelly used those oral histories to write his…
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From Burden to Breakthrough: Redefining Leadership Through Adversity
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23:52Send us a text In this eye-opening episode of 'I Don't Subscribe,' host Ibrahim Daffae takes listeners on a compelling journey that digs deep into how adversity shapes our leadership styles. Discover how survival mechanisms born from our most challenging battles can be transformed into practical and invaluable tools for effective leadership. Ibrahi…
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Bana Mwesige was 12 years old when he joined the church choir. Singing was his sanctuary. But now, at age 28, Bana can’t bring himself to sing gospel anymore. It’s not his faith in God that has wavered, it’s his faith in the church. When his pastor tried to "cure" him from what needed no curing, Bana felt something inside of him break. Sources: Hum…
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Neural Weaponry: Rewiring Adversity for Leadership Excellence
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18:26Send us a text In this compelling episode of 'I Don't Subscribe,' host Ibrahim Daffae delves deep into the intriguing ways that early life adversities shape our brain's architecture and profoundly influence decision-making processes in high-stakes environments such as the boardroom. Drawing on groundbreaking insights from neuroscience, he unveils p…
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The Invisible Advantage: Transforming Trauma into Leadership Power
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18:05Send us a text In the compelling premiere of 'I Don't Subscribe,' host Ibrahim Daffae takes listeners on a profound exploration of how life’s adversities forge exceptional leadership qualities. Drawing from his own remarkable journey that spans from the tumultuous streets of Freetown to the vibrant and dynamic community of the South Bronx, Ibrahim …
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Introduction: Transforming Adversity into Leadership Mastery
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28:00Send us a text In the debut episode of 'I Don't Subscribe,' host Ibrahim Daffae invites listeners to embark on a compelling journey that traces his path from the vibrant streets of Freetown to the dynamic pulse of the South Bronx. Drawing upon the challenges he faced during his formative years; Ibrahim Daffae eloquently illustrates how these early …
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A Tribute to George Foreman: An Unexpected Kitchen—The George Foreman Grill
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22:38In 2004, we opened up a phone line on NPR asking people to tell us about their Hidden Kitchens— secret, underground, below the radar cooking, and how people come together through food. One caller told us about immigrants and homeless people, who didn't have official kitchens, using the George Foreman Grill to make meals and a home. Did George Forem…
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - Revisiting Manzanar
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44:49In 1981 The Kitchen Sisters interviewed Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston for a story about life on the homefront during World War II. Jeanne told stories of her childhood growing up in Manzanar, a hastily built detention camp surrounded by barbed wire and armed guard towers in the midst of the Owens Valley in the Mojave desert, where Japanese Americans wer…
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The Tom Luddy Connection: The Man, The Movies, The Rolodex
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53:14Tom Luddy was a quiet titan of cinema. He presided over the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley for some 10 years, co-founded and directed The Telluride Film Festival for nearly 50 years, produced some 14 movies, match-made dozens of international love affairs, and foraged for the most beautiful, political, important, risky films and made sure there w…
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For almost a dozen years, 34 Black women gathered monthly around a big dining room table in an orange house on Orange Street in Oakland, CA — meeting, cooking, dancing, strategizing — grappling with the issues of eviction, erasure, gentrification, inadequate health care, and the sex trafficking of Black women and girls overwhelming their community.…
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Dating is complicated. Not to mention dating on the apps! And for LGBTQI+ folks on the African continent, where many countries criminalise queerness, it’s even MORE complicated. We asked reporters in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya and Namibia to share how they navigate the highs and lows of seeking romance, community and friendship online. Despite all th…
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Spotlight on Black Pet Care Entrepreneurs
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36:30Lured in by a blackboard sign on the street in Davia’s neighborhood announcing “Spotlight on Black Entrepreneurs,” we enter the creative and growing world of Black-Owned Pet Businesses. Lick You Silly dog treats, Trill Paws enamel ID Tags, The Dog Father of Harlem's Doggie Day Spa, gorgeous rainbow beaded Dog Collars from The Kenya Collection, Sir …
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The Anti-Inaugural Concert: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Nixon and the "Plea for Peace" music of 1973 Inauguration
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33:14Lady Gaga, Marion Anderson, Beyoncé, Frank Sinatra, Pete Seeger, Maya Angelou — musicians and poets have been powerful headliners at inauguration ceremonies across the years signaling change, new beginnings and reflecting the mood of the country and a new administration. In January 1973, following the Christmas bombing of Vietnam, conductor Leonard…
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Edna Lewis was a legendary American chef, a pioneer of Southern cooking and the author of four books, including The Taste of Country Cooking, her memoir cookbook about growing up in Freetown, Virginia, a small farming community of formerly enslaved people and their descendants established in 1866. Before she began writing books, Edna had been a cel…
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On the occasion of her 80th birthday in 2000, The Kitchen Sisters, along with food writer Peggy Knickerbocker, visited the home of Cecilia Chiang, the legendary Chinese-American restaurateur, chef and founder of The Mandarin Restaurant in San Francisco for a bit of an oral history. Cecilia Chiang introduced regional Chinese cooking to America in th…
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Oliver grew up in Kabwe, one of the most toxic towns in the world. His mom wouldn't even let him play outside because the land, wind, and air are so heavily polluted from nearly a century of lead mining. Now 18, Oliver sees a new wave of mining sweeping across Zambia. This time, mining companies want to extract minerals for the clean energy boom. O…
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Catherine Bauer Wurster, Housing Advocate: A Thoroughly Modern Woman
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49:00A pioneer in her field, Catherine Bauer Wurster was advisor to five presidents on urban planning and housing and was one of the primary authors of the Housing Act of 1937. During the 1930s she wrote the influential book Modern Housing and was one of the leaders of the "housers" movement, advocating for affordable housing for low-income families. Ca…
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Damola is waiting for an email that will change her life… A Canadian visa. Six months ago, she decided to emigrate. Despite a fulfilling career as a dentist, Damola wants out. And she’s ready to leave behind everything and everyone she knows including her recently widowed mother. According to a recent survey, 70% of Nigerians aged 15 to 35 want to …
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Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby
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45:28Pushed to the side and rarely credited for her architectural work at Davis Brody, Phyllis Birkby became a significant figure in extending the lesbian women's movement to architecture during the 1970s. Her environmental fantasy workshops played a crucial role in galvanizing the community, providing a creative and empowering space within a male-domin…
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It is Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the day when millions of Americans go to the polls to vote for who will lead their towns, their states, the nation. Souls to the polls today across the country, and so much hangs in the balance. On this fraught and tender Tuesday, when all our nerves are frayed, we offer a moment of respite and contemplation — an ep…
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[Trigger Warning: Mentions of sexual harassment, rape and child abuse] Lella Miskir is tired of the constant harassment she and other women in Ethiopia experience on the daily. In response, Lella now walks through the streets of Addis Ababa, armed – with a small, red whistle. Her online campaign, #MyWhistleMyVoice, encourages women to blow their wh…
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The Hope and the Scope: Young People and the Political Moment
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32:07July 17, 2024, Washington, D.C. Some 200 young people from across the nation aged 14-19 — aspiring poets, storytellers, MC's, activists — are gathered in the nation’s capital for the 29th annual Brave New Voices Festival — four non-stop days of slam poetry competition, coaching, workshops, late-night freestyling and in 2024, voting information. In …
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Today, The Kitchen Sisters Present: “Tupperware” — an homage and a eulogy. It was 1980. Nikki and I had just met. We had just named ourselves The Kitchen Sisters. And we had just bought our first cassette recorder, a Sony TC-D5M. We hadn’t even taken it out of the box or been trained on it when we were invited to a Tupperware party our friend Kirst…
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As elections loom, we need to get involved, step up to the civic plate, take part in discourse. And that’s what Manny Yekutiel has been driven to do since 2018. He’s created a community-focused meeting place in San Francisco — a gathering space for people to watch presidential debates, meet people working on the front lines of social change, and di…
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