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We're back with a new season of Asase Ba! Season 5 is another mixed bag of episodes about Ghanaian stories that are often untold or silenced.

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WEBSITE

Check out our official website for podcast transcripts and resources by and for Ghanaians at https://www.asaseba.com/

SUPPORT

To support the podcast, you can use e-transfer or PayPal and send to asasebapod@gmail.com. Thank you so much for your support!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsaseBaPod

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asasebapod/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@asasebapod

EMAIL

asasebapod@gmail.com 

HOST

This podcast is produced, edited and hosted by Ghanaian Canadian Michelle (pronouns: she/her). She is also the creator of the theme music.

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Hanna, an amazing, talented photographer and daughter of Ethiopian parents joins us. Yvann, our first ever guest and close friend, co-hosts this fun conversation with Josue. Hanna shares her experience of growing up in an Ethiopian household, when she started to embrace her culture, how her culture and personality mixed, appreciating her identity and heritage, common expectations in an African family, and shares about thoughts related to photography and creativity.

We discuss respecting elders, evaluating intentions behind actions, parents being people at the end of the day, honoring where you came from, the pros/cons of high expectations set by African parents, the reality of immigrant parents to the US, you can only give what you receive, and what makes a good piece of art/photography.

Connect with Hanna:

Hanna Photography IG: @hanniimages

YouTube: The Perspectives Podcast

Website: perspectivesworldwide.org

IG: @PerspectivesWorldwide

Josue IG: @ButtermanJosue

Chase IG: @Whereischasebrown

Grayson IG: @GraysonHuskey

(Edited by Ryan Rasmussen)

Pelaiah, a native of Zimbabwe and friend of Chase and Josue joins us. Yvann, our first ever guest and close friend, co-hosts this fun conversation with Josue. Pelaiah, Yvann, and Josue each share their stories of moving to America in 2002, interacting with parts of American culture for the first time, adopting different parts of the American lifestyle, the role of their parents in childhood, and what Ivorian, Congolese, Zimbabwean, and American culture can learn from one another.

We discuss coping with feeling like an outsider, how they mixed the two cultures, cultural difference, respect, favorite memories that other Africans might be able to relate to, Yvann’s premarital experience and mixing cultures with his wife, and the positive parts of our culture just being a glimpse of Kingdom culture.

Connect with Pelaiah and Yvann:

Pelaiah IG: @pelaiahmpande

Yvann IG: @yvann007

YouTube: The Perspectives Podcast

Website: perspectivesworldwide.org

IG: @PerspectivesWorldwide

Josue IG: @ButtermanJosue

Chase IG: @Whereischasebrown

Grayson IG: @GraysonHuskey

(Edited by Ryan Rasmussen)

My African cliché of the day is a question “How many? ".  How many generations of tourists from all over the world had seen “El Negro”? How many have left this museum with the simplistic association at the head of "Black or African = barbaric?" ". did I just say Barbaric? Who is really is the barbaric here? Is it the Bechuana? or rather those who stole a dead buried body, who stuffed it, those who sold it, bought and exhibited it, those who took a picture of him without batting an eyelid, those who posed in front of it and shrugged their shoulders before going to taste tapas, those who refused to send him back home, in short, all those who failed to see an anomaly of their culture and history, to acknowledge human suffering.  Come on, we are talking about the end of the 1990s, it was like yesterday! And yet since 1947, Birago Diop, the great Senegalese poet, already said it, in his sublime poem titled Spirits, which I allow myself to slightly change hoping the purists will forgive me.

In S2E4 of Asase Ba, Michelle talks to Uncle Emmanuel about growing up in the Ashanti region in Ghana, vivid childhood memories, cultural customs and traditions, the political climate when he was growing up in Ghana, moving to Germany then Canada, the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Ontario, life lessons, wisdom for the youth, and his peers, and more!

Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod.

TRANSCRIPT

https://asaseba.com/podcast/season-2/episode-4-uncle-emmanuel-ghanaian-story

SUPPORT

E-transfer or via PayPal to asasebapod@gmail.com. Thank you so much for your support.

WEBSITE

https://asaseba.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsaseBaPod

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asasebapod/

EMAIL

asasebapod@gmail.com 

GUEST

Emmanuel Duodu - available on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and more.

Email

emml.duodu90@hotmail.com

HOST

This podcast is produced, edited and hosted by Ghanaian Canadian Michelle (pronouns: she/her). She is also the creator of the theme music.

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In S2E3 of Asase Ba, Michelle talks to Aunty Theresa about moving between regions while growing up in Ghana and the challenges that came with that, Northern Ghana Talensi culture, the Gologo festival, speaking multiple languages, going to teacher’s college in Tamale, her involvement within the Northern Ghana Culture Association in Canada, self care during covid-19, life lessons, community vs individualism, and more.

Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod.

TRANSCRIPT

https://asaseba.com/podcast/season-2/episode-3-aunty-theresa-ghanaian-story

SUPPORT

E-transfer or via PayPal to asasebapod@gmail.com. Thank you so much for your support.

WEBSITE

https://asaseba.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsaseBaPod

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asasebapod/

EMAIL

asasebapod@gmail.com 

GUEST

Aunty Theresa

Emails

theresaawuni@yahoo.com

theresaa@dixiebloor.ca

HOST

This podcast is produced, edited and hosted by Ghanaian Canadian Michelle (pronouns: she/her). She is also the creator of the theme music.

#ghanaian #ghana #podcast #african #africa #culture #ghanaianpodcast #africanpodcast #oraltradition #elder #women

In S2E2 of Asase Ba, Michelle talks to Aunty Janet about growing up in Accra (La), Ga culture, migration of Ga people, going to school in the Eastern region of Ghana, her passion for art, making jollof, Homowo, her love of church, and much more.

Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod.

TRANSCRIPT

https://asaseba.com/podcast/season-2/episode-2-aunty-janet-ghanaian-story

SUPPORT

PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bymichb

WEBSITE

https://asaseba.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsaseBaPod

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asasebapod/

EMAIL

asasebapod@gmail.com 

GUEST

Aunty Janet. Aunty can be contacted via email at jayork8@gmail.com

HOST

This podcast is produced, edited and hosted by Ghanaian Canadian Michelle (pronouns: she/her). She is also the creator of the theme music.

#ghanaian #ghana #podcast #african #africa #culture #ghanaianpodcast #africanpodcast #oraltradition #elder #women

In the season 2 premier of Asase Ba, Michelle talks to Mrs. Felicia Botchway about growing up in Ghana during Independence, her family’s journey from Togo, to the Volta Region to Kumasi, The Young Pioneers, herbalism, immigrating to Canada in the 1970, intelligentials, connecting with her Ewe community, her work as a hairstylist and salon owner, how she practices self care, racism in the church, helping seniors during covid-19, wisdom for the youth and parents, and much more!

Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod.

TRANSCRIPT

https://asaseba.com/podcast/season-2/episode-1-aunty-felicia-ghanaian-story

SUPPORT

PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bymichb

WEBSITE

https://asaseba.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsaseBaPod

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asasebapod/

EMAIL

asasebapod@gmail.com 

GUEST

Mrs. Felicia Botchway - Follow her on Instagram and Facebook by searching “Felicia Botchway”

HOST

This podcast is produced, edited and hosted by Ghanaian Canadian Michelle (pronouns: she/her). She is also the creator of the theme music.

#ghanaian #ghana #podcast #african #africa #culture #ghanaianpodcast #africanpodcast #oraltradition #elder #women

FOR AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS..

” You need to read to open up your world” is a phrase I often heard when I was a child. But in the era of so-called social networks, the supremacy of WhatsApp, fake news and Facebook pages, it seems that fewer and fewer adults are reading books. And this observation is even more striking for the younger generation. Do young Africans still read books? What do they read? Which African authors do they read? Where do they read or find the books?

Want the answers? Then it’s good you are embarking with us on this 4th Sankofa takeoff piloted by a heroine of this month of March, Prof Cécile, who takes us in a dive in the head and the readings of our young people, a journey in search of answers, in a flight to the heart of African feminine literature.

FOR AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS

My African cliche of the day is a Bantu saying which says I quote: "Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu",which means in French: "A human is human because of other humans".It essentially means that Our humanity depends on the humanity of our fellow humans. No individual, no group can be human all alone. We rise together above the animal, or not at all. This saying is one of the favorites of an African writer, a great African intellectual, Prof Chinua Achebe, who left us almost 7 years ago. He is considered in the English-speaking world as the father of the African novel. He was convinced that the mission of the African intellectuals is to rehabilitate the image of Africa, tarnished by colonization and the stereotypes which a certain colonial literature carried for decades. And since it is impossible to talk about him in a few seconds, an entire episode will be devoted to him soon, but in the meantime, only one word is needed: THANKS Professor Achebe.