Pounding Fufu

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Pounding Fufu is a digital and audible guide to life’s lessons captured through travel, work, and relationships.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/poundingfufu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Danica Samuel


    • Oct 18, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 15m AVG DURATION
    • 9 EPISODES


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    Season 2, Coming Soon!

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 1:38


    A new season of Pounding Fufu is on the way! The mortar is expanding, and the yams are fresh with fiction and non-fiction stories from yours truly and local creatives. Look out for new episodes starting January 2025. Listen & read the previous episode here: https://www.danicasamuel.com/podcast/poundingfufu

    Chapter 006 - Fiddleheads on Home and Native Land

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 22:17


    Many times when Natasha stepped off the Passing Cloud boat onto foreign terrain, she felt that she might be making history as the first Black person to explore and forage the land. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/poundingfufu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Chapter 005 - Eskista, Tibs and Buna: Memories in Toronto’s Addis Abeba

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 13:24


    Growing up on Toronto's Danforth, the Habesha culture was fluid from Greenwood to Victoria Park. Aunties and uncles sipped buna, and friends shared Injera amongst each other. This chapter of Pounding Fufu is a memoir of the moments in Toronto's Little Ethiopia, a place vibrant with the sounds of Teddy Afro, sweet-smelling Buna, and people cheerfully anticipating to dance the Eskista at the millennium. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Chapter 004 - Arrested in Rwanda (Part II)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2020 24:41


    After the arrest, Gisyeni's peace and Lake Kivu's stillness evoke introspection. With attentiveness to her surroundings and dedication to learning more, Danica uncovers the weight of a nation trying to heal from genocide. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/poundingfufu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Chapter 004 - Arrested in Rwanda (Part I)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2020 17:51


    After a traumatic arrest in Kigali, more incidents from the airport to the mountains mirrored the complexity of a nation still recovering from genocide. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/poundingfufu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Chapter 003 - This Seat is Yours

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 17:41


    In this chapter of Pounding Fufu, Mount Kilimanjaro teaches an important lesson - that when you judge someone, you take away the time to love them.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/poundingfufu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Chapter 002 (Afterword) - Mr. Langevine's Letter

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 2:25


    In Chapter 2 - Popsicle Mansions, Mr. Langevine taught students how to turn their popsicle sticks into mansions. Here's a letter he wrote to his Graduating class of 2003/2004.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/poundingfufu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Chapter 002 - Popsicle Mansions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 19:33


    Those that teach us skills and trades are important, but the teachers that beautifully orchestrate the fundamentals of life are the ones that last in our souls forever. For chapter 2 of Pounding Fufu, Meet Mr.Langevine, one of TDSB's most prominent educators.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/poundingfufu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Chapter 001 - Renewal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2020 16:35


    For the first chapter of Pounding Fufu, Danica learns that pretending to be something you're not, will block you from becoming all that you are.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/poundingfufu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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