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A bilingual podcast in French and English hosted by Saran Koly and produced by Subtile Media. Every Wednesday on subtile.co/waaa, Apple Podcast and Spotify We Are All Africans is a safe space for Africans with a wide range of backgrounds to discuss their being in a globalized world. So please take a seat and listen. subtile.co/waaa

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    • Dec 7, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 42m AVG DURATION
    • 21 EPISODES


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    05. Sharonda Quainoo, Ashanti and Fante First

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2022 39:34


     "I feel at the most more Ashanti or Fante than Ghanaian and then African but being African, I don't know sometimes!"

    04. Ruth Tafébé, La Joie de Vivre

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2022 70:30


    03. Faith Toran, Unstoppable

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2022 38:24


    "To be African is always be expansive in your mind and your heart and your spirit not to be limited. Also really just to be confident knowing that you really embody this deepest most profound love that exists. Because if you look at the history of how we've been oppressed and how we continue to be oppressed. The compassion that we're able to show to the oppressor is unbelievable. It's magic, pure magic."

    02. Saran Koly, Entière

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2022 57:29


     "La meilleure façon de me définir pour moi, c'est de dire que je suis une marginale ou de dire que je suis en dehors, que je suis à côté. Je ne suis pas dedans et ce n'est pas du tout inconfortable pour moi. Je suis ma zone de confort, c'est d'être dans à la marge et à côté et pas au centre donc. Je me souviens qu'il y avait quelqu'un qui disait que  je disais disait toujours que mes parents sont du Mali, de la Guinée, du Sénégal et que j'ai grandi en Côte d'Ivoire et que je disais que je suis 100 % de tout, 100 % du Mali, 100 % de Guinée, 100 % du Sénégal, 100 % de Côte d'Ivoire. C'est exactement ça. Je suis 100 % africaine, 100 % européenne, 100 % une femme , 100 % pas sûre d'être une femme 100 % pas sûre d'être si européenne que ça. Je suis 100 %, je suis une personne complète.”

    16. Maneo Mohale, The poet

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2022 33:06


    “What it means for me to be Black and queer and trans or non-binary or all of these names make me legible I suppose in a western framework of gender and sexuality. But increasingly the longer that I'm here and the deeper I ask myself further and more ancestral questions about identity and sexuality and desire and kinship, the more those categories dissolve. But I cannot ignore the political reality of needing to be visible and legible to my own community (…) I know that there were poets and artists and queer people and trans people in my life that made me feel possible, because they identified themselves and lived in public ways and published obviously pursuant to all kinds of issues of safety and openness and visibility and representation. I really want to be the kind of person that makes other people feel possible. That makes other divine, beautiful, complicated, gorgeous queer young Black babies feel like they have, and can, and must carve their own space and take up their own space in the world, on the continent, in the country everywhere.”

    15. Jumoke Warritay, The Connector

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 43:09


    “I had to make a shift from saying, like, oh, I am from Sierra Leone because literally people just didn't know where it was. They had no idea. And there is only so much of like a geography lesson I want to do in an introduction, like, all right, let's simplify this. I am African. So, I remember making this shift that first year in the United States where I was no longer Sierra Leonean first. I was African first. And I was black first. You know that these two identities really shaped my experience in a big way, and it was stark and difficult to manage.”

    14. Sobel Aziz Ngom, Le Visionnaire

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2021 39:45


    " Je me sens aussi africain dans mes choix économiques quand je parviens à prendre une décision pour moi même, pour un groupe, de consommer quelque chose ou d'acheter quelque chose qui est africain. C'est une action économique, évidemment, mais qui est portée par une conviction politique."

    13. Alimatu Sallah, Outspoken

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 21:56


    "I just think it was I really think that the path that I was taking, my ancestors were not too pleased. And it was just like, yeah, you need to come back over here because we have to get you together because you're falling off of your path. It was like a summoning home."

    12. Wilfried N'Sondé, Je ne suis pas Africain

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 40:58


    "Nous proposons de ne plus demander aux gens d’où ils viennent mais de qui ils viennent. Parce que je pense qu’il y a un délire mondial autour de la géographie. Le projet de l’humain c’est justement de se détacher de la géographie. L’être humain s’adapte dans toutes les géographies. Ce n’est pas la géographie qui est importante, c’est l’humain."

    11. Noemi Dibayula, Intentional

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 39:39


    This episode is a candid chronicle on finding oneself, breaking free from generational curse and religion. "I never felt comfortable. I couldn't recognize myself. And I guess maybe there's more to being companies or maybe there's more to being me because I never feel quite right. Even at church, they were preaching stuff and I was like "ha I don't know. That doesn't make sense". And I've always been curious. I've always been outspoken. So when I would ask a question, people would tell me, no, you just have to believe or that's just the way it is. And for me, that just wasn't enough. I'm like, OK, I guess I just have to go and try to find some answers and trying to look for things because what I see now is too small, too restrictive. I feel like I don't fit in. So maybe if I go and I find something that is more like me. I didn't know where I wanted to go. I just knew that where I was wasn't that for me. So the first thing I did is that I left the church."

    10. Emna Kayouli, La nomade

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2021 70:58


    Dans cet épisode, Emna nous raconte son cheminement spirituel des montagnes de Tunisie en passant par la Belgique, l’Éthiopie, le Niger, le Burkina Faso et le Sénégal ou elle a posé son âme pour le moment.

    09. Chinonye "Chi Chi" Ebgulem, The Resilient

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 33:39


    "Being Nigerian, being Igbo, we are proud. If we have dirty laundry, we don't air it. For so many years, it was like my mother died and because I am so resilient, I was able to just transition so smoothly. I moved into this new home immediately with my birth mom's brother and his wife. But they were like, no, we are your parents now. You call us mom and dad. It wasn't until years later that people in the community realized, wow, we didn't even know that you weren't her biological parents. Because everything was just so taboo coming from being born to parents unwed. You just don't talk about it being born to someone who was a Catholic priest. That's just sheer taboo. It's blasphemy."

    08, Soumaïla Koly, Le philosophe

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2021 66:46


    "Il y a une forme de miscégénation, de mélange entre ce côté vraiment libertaire que j'ai eu dans mon enfance, mon éducation adolescence et le monde occidental dans lequel je suis maintenant. C'est un mélange de prudence rationnelle et d'extrême lucidité sur l'envers du décor et de la part des ténèbres, de l'humanité et du combat mené en permanence pour à la fois transmettre à nos enfants, à ceux que l'on rencontre ou à ceux qui ont des doutes. Les belles choses qu'on peut faire ensemble sont possibles, puisqu'on les a vécues en étant jeune. Moi, j'ai déjà vécu ça pour moi de 1971 jusqu'à 90, donc c'est possible. Que toutes les différences sont sont des enrichissements et que l'on peut avoir récits en commun, pas forcément des récits communs, mais des récits en commun qu'on peut construire des choses en commun de façon simple en évitant les affrontements bellicistes et en réglant les problèmes de base qui sont qui font que par exemple, tous les enfants puissent prendre le temps d'être ensemble et que les nôtres ne sont pas mieux que ceux des autres."

    06. Djontan Diarra, Celle qui en vaut dix

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 48:58


     Djontan Diarra, Celle qui en vaut dix Le déguisement « Quand j'avais 6 ans, j'ai été invité à mon premier anniversaire déguisé et c'est une copine qui s'appelait Mélanie je m’en souviens comme si c’était hier. Ma mère me demande si tu veux te déguiser en quoi pour cet anniversaire-là ? Je lui dis, je veux être déguisée en Africaine. Et je me rappelle qu'elle rigole et qu'elle m'a dit tu comprendras quand tu seras plus grande qu'être Africaine ce n'est pas un déguisement. Je ne comprends pas trop, mais je suis très contente de porter mon grand foulard, mon petit boubou et d'aller à cet anniversaire. » 

    05. Carol Labor, The Healer

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 44:07


    "Once I learned that being African was my superpower, I never looked back. I fought and advocated from the White House to the US Congress, the Senate, the Pennsylvania House, the Pennsylvania Senate, the Black congressional leaders, fighting for African kids, fighting for equality."

    04. Ifrikia Kengué, La Petite Afrique

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 38:32


    "Quand la guerre est passée, je me suis retrouvé à Pointe-Noire. Mais en fait, mon cerveau a oublié cet épisode, tous ces moments là. La guerre avait quelque chose d'intéressant. La famille a retissé des liens. On était solidaires. La famille au Gabon nous envoyait du pétrole, du savon et du sel parce que c'était une denrée rare dans les zones où on était. On a vécu dans la forêt. Et moi, je me suis réfugiée dans les bouquins que mon père a emporté avec lui. Donc, c'est la lecture qui m'a permis de me créer une bulle pour avoir un espace où je pouvais me projeter en tant qu'adolescente, avoir des rêves d'adolescente. Les bouquins m'ont permis de me projeter, créer un petit monde où j'étais ma propre héroïne."  subtile.co/waaa Montage, habillage sonore: Emiliano Mattos

    03. Farid Farid, Double Unique

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 46:15


    In this episode, meet Farid Farid, Double Unique. Making History “The 25th of January was originally police day to honor and commemorate police in their uprising against British colonists. So the irony is that the police or the regime after they kicked the British out, is that they became the colonists. They became imperialist, power-hungry, bloodthirsty bastards. That's just like what you have in Nigeria, what you have in America, what you have in France, it started against police brutality and for the interior minister to go. But then it just swelled and grew and expanded and multiplied into like, let's get the bastards out. People wanted the downfall of the regime.” Concept, Script-writing, Host: Saran Koly Sound Design - Sound Editing: Emiliano Mattos Website: subtile.co/waaa Instagram: @subtile_media Facebook: @subtilemedia  

    02. Oureytou Thiam, La flamboyance

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2021 61:01


    Tous les épisodes sont précieux mais celui-ci l'est encore plus puisque c'est ma mère qui partage son histoire avec beaucoup de générosité. Installez-vous et écoutez. Habillage Sonore et montage: Emiliano Mattos

    01. Oluseyi Sonaiya, The Brilliant Mind

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 44:44


    In this episode, meet Oluseyi Sonaiya, The Brilliant Mind. What does it mean to be African? "It means responsibility to the world, especially if you live in the West and Europe and the Americas in these plural societies, to explode their preconceptions of who you are, which are always narrow and caricatured and tend towards the negative, but not in a way that is seeking their approval. It is about making room for who you actually are. It's putting your elbows out and claiming your own space." 

    00. WAAA - We Are All Africans Bande Annonce

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2021 1:40


    We Are All Africans, un podcast bilingue en français et en anglais animé par Saran Koly et produit par Subtile Media. Tous les mercredis sur subtile.co/waaa, Apple Podcast et Spotify  Une série de portraits complexes et nuancés d’Africaines et Africains d’aujourd’hui. Alors, asseyez-vous et écoutez.

    00. WAAA - We Are All Africans Teaser

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2021 1:40


    We Are All Africans (WAAA), a bilingual podcast in French and English hosted by Saran Koly and produced by Subtile Media. A new episode dropping every Wednesday. WAAA is a safe space for Africans with a wide range of backgrounds to discuss their being in a globalized world. So please take a seat and listen. For more, please visit subtile.co/waaa

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