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Meet Oseremen, a Nigerian-Canadian storyteller, documentarian and digital hoarder based in southern Alberta. He's turned a lifelong love of stories into an academic career in Anthropology and a job as a journalist. While photography is closest to his heart, Oseremen is a jack of all trades whose creativity is powered by curiosity. He's currently really curious about speculative fiction, migration, urban planning, and the environment. He loves to read, garden, cook and generally engage in whimsy.  Where can you find Oseremen? Socials: @osrm3n on Instagram, Tiktok,Twitter website: oseremenirete.caWho/ What does Oseremen want to promote? He'd like to direct people to my tiktok and instagram accounts, both @osrm3n. He is putting out video essays digging into local Alberta lore. His photobook Sometimes I Forget, which is based on the photos from my 3 month trip to Nigeria, is also coming out Late September/early October.  See which home we visit next Sunday!

Meet Zakiya McKenzie, a writer and researcher based in Bristol, England. In 2019, she was Writer in Residence for Forestry England during its centenary year and in 2023, her PhD research on Caribbean-led newspapers in Britain won the Olivette Otele Prize for Research in Black British studies.  Her recent work explores the legacies of colonialism and enslavement in the Caribbean. Zakiya is the author of Testimonies on the History of Jamaica Vol. 1 (Rough Trade Books, 2021), a pamphlet that reimagines the environmental history of the island through fragments found in European archives.  She is currently a Senior Research Associate in Creative Research Methods at the University of Bristol  Where can you find Zakiya?  Instagram: @zakiyamedia website: zakiyamckenzie.com Who/What does Zakiya want to promote? Please sign up to the newsletter from her work  project - looking at Plants, Enslavement and Public History (sign up link at bottom of the page)  https://plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/03/19/montserrat-lime-the-story-of-a-world-famous-crop/ Read this article by me on architecture and enslavement :)  https://www.into.org/architecture-and-enslavement-in-jamaica/ Just conducted creative research methods workshops in Jamaica and Bristol please share post on my IG page about the Bristol leg : InstagramFind out which home we visit next Sunday!

Meet Lillie, a trained earth builder, writer, filmmaker and facilitator, specialising in community building. Working within a range of environmental fields has inspired her to reimagine places with community. This embedded approach is drawn from therapeutic beekeeping, forest school facilitation and co-creating green jobs. Lillie’s work creatively engages with people, planet and place, especially in her home turf of Camden. She enjoys processes of community building, rewilding and reimagining with elders, birds, refugees, youth, pollinators and inner city communities. From bird ringing in Albania, to earth architecture restoration in the Sahara, Lillie's diverse perspectives are carving out a new culture. Rooted in climate justice, she has also been involved in projects reimagining and rewilding London, leading her to found Rewild the Ends. Where can you find Lille? personal socials: @forestfemmme / @rewildthends  Who/ What does Lille want to promote? I have some projects coming out soon, related to my restoration work in Morocco and Albania soon.I will be doing a Climate Reframe event on the 30th of April. Lots of Rewild the Ends events coming up, including some tai chi in the park! I'm loving the books Architecture for the Poor and Racing Alone; about having your own vision of change and following it even if people don't understand. Workshops at Earthfest and The Roundhouse in June + July

Meet Jumoke, a Nigerian-born British force of nature and the co-founder of Our Living Archives and The Triple Cripples.  These organisations exemplify her great passion for social justice and focus on the impact that the media, and wider systems, have on multiply marginalised people, especially those racialised as Black.  Jumoke is a writer and speaker, as well as being a two time fellow with the SFSU Emerge and AFRE Fellowships. She recently graduated from a Masters programme and has a wealth of advisory experience.  When not busy speaking, writing, studying and advising, Jumoke spends her time being a professional baby girl, a Yorubaddie, if you will. Where can you find Jumoke? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triplecripples/ + https://www.instagram.com/ourlivingarchives/Websites: https://thetriplecripples.uk/ + https://ourlivingarchives.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTripleCripplesWho/ What does Jumoke want to promote? Our Living Archives (created by Jumoke and Kym Oliver) is an intracommunal healing charity and community building hub, seeking to address (and tackle) the disadvantage faced by Disabled Black Women and Gender Expansive People using a holistic, intersectional approach. They do this by creating avenues and opportunities for those who exist at the intersections of race, ability and gender to participate in and be at the helm of their depictions, interventions and possibilities. OLA is going to have a Black Disability Grief Project, we want Disabled Artists to be on the look out for when we post the Artist call out.  https://ourlivingarchives.com

Astute to the sounds of life, Carma is a writer, teacher, DJ & storyteller using music to fuel every creation.  Her art reflects the sounds of church, the natural world, politics & everyday life.  She focuses on the sounds that made her, the realities that come with understanding it all and a comedic lightness as the cherry on top. Having grown up around Baltimore, her style is deeply influenced by the sounds of the city. However, her taste and approach expands into the city’s influences and diasporic connections. That diasporic ethos is what leads her expansive understanding of the world we engage with.  She believes through music, collective movement and care we will be able to support each other through gruesome times into light. Instagram: Carmascoming Substack: carmascominggg  SoundCloud: carmascominggg  Youtube: carmascominggg Who and what does Carma want to promote? follow her on Substack and Youtube for the "Sound Seminar" series. It focuses on the cultural and political ties to the sounds of the Black American Zeitgeist!Follow her series called "Twerk 4 Guest List"  @twerk4guestlist on Instagram ! This one is for the real booty shakers. Stay tuned in with her for more fun music knowledge and events :).Follow Critical Youth Sound System . It isgetting up and running again. She'll be working on an event with them.

Welcome to the season 1 finale with host Simmone reflecting on what the last 6 months has been with the podcast by answering questions asked by her audience! She reflects on which episode made her laugh, cry, reflect! as well as big learnings she's made a long the way and what's in store for season 2! Thank you for listening, sharing and engaging with season 1- it means the world 3 Where can you find Simmone? @simmoneahiaku on all socials who/what does Simmone want to promote? HUGE NEWS! The Home Sayings Podcast will be at SLACFest on Sunday 2nd November! Our amazing guest Siana from ep15, invited Simmone to be on the 'Africa Beyond Borders Panel' Please get your tickets to the amazing SLACFest here: SLACfest - Sunday Programme

Meet Natalie Lartey, a narrative researcher and strategist working with social purpose organisations. Her practice is focused on designing and using toolkits to centre racial literacy and colonial memory as essential components of inclusive storytelling and knowledge production. Natalie is the Director and Founder of Wood & Water, a social enterprise that equips people with the tools they need to rethink inclusive storytelling and knowledge production, in ways that better serve diverse racial groups and the wider third sector. Natalie began her career in environmental campaigning following several years of youth activism raising awareness of deaths in police custody and stop and search in Black British communities. She went on to lead campaigns and communications initiatives for environmental and humanitarian aid organisations including Greenpeace, Action Against Hunger, and Concern Worldwide. With over twenty years’ social impact experience, Natalie has developed campaigns, created content, and facilitated critical debate on inclusive storytelling in a range of contexts including Western Europe, East and West Africa, South America, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. An innovator in her field Natalie has always bought her combined English, Jamaican, and Nigerian heritage to her work. She co-chairs the humanitarian sectors Pledge for Change authentic storytelling panel and advises the International Institute for Environment and Development on ethical knowledge generation and communication. Natalie holds an MRes in Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BSc in Information and Publishing Studies from Loughborough University. Where can you find Natalie? WoodWater_org on instagram and LinkedIn- Instagram + (7) Wood & Water: Posts | LinkedIn Natalie Lartey on LinkedIn- (7) Natalie Lartey | LinkedIn Who/What does Natalie want to promote: Voices for Change: Stroies from the environmental movement at the British Library- Voices for Change: Stories from the Environmental Movement | British Library

Meet Siana Bangura [pronounced ‘see-anna’], a multi-award winning writer, producer, performer, curator, and community organiser, hailing from South East London, currently living, working, and creating between London and the West Midlands. Siana is the founder and former editor of the Black British Feminist platform, No Fly on the WALL; she is the author of the critically acclaimed debut collection, ‘Elephant’, a book of poetry meditating on Black British womanhood and life growing up in London; the producer of ‘1500 & Counting’, a documentary film investigating deaths in custody and police brutality in the UK; the founder of Courageous Films, a social-justice focused documentary production house; and Producer at Siana Bangura Productions, a creative studio focusing on curating work, events and multi-layered experiences across the arts with care and intention. She is also co-founder and co-curator of the Sierra Leone Arts & Culture Festival (SLACfest). As a playwright, Siana’s recent works include the play ‘Swim, Aunty, Swim!’, which was named Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards and recognised at the Black British Theatre Awards 2024. A multi-disciplinary leader, Siana works and campaigns on issues of race, class, and gender and their intersections and is currently working on projects focusing on climate justice, the arms trade, Tech Justice, and state violence. Her work has featured in publications such as The Guardian, The Metro, Evening Standard, Black Ballad, Consented, Green European Journal, The Fader, and Dazed as well as the 'Loud Black Girls' anthology, presented by Slay In Your Lane. Across her vast portfolio of work, Siana’s mission is to help move voices and experiences traditionally marginalised, from the margins, to the centre. @sianaarrgh everywhere but find me on [email protected]  The Sierra Leone Arts & Culture Festival (SLACfest) 2025 is coming to Theatre Peckham from Friday 31st October - Sunday 2nd November  deets here: Follow @young_salone on Instagram https://linktr.ee/YoungSL for links to grab tickets to the festival and to see more of our work

Meet Sophie Yates Lu (she/they), a Taiwanese and English community organiser, facilitator, artist and massage therapist. Her work focuses on communities at the sharp end of injustice, currently working with Decolonising Economics and People's Economy. She also runs regular social meetups for neurodivergent people and is a parent to a cheeky toddler and a feisty dog. Where can you find Sophie? Instagram: http://instagram.com/sophieyatesluLinkedIn: Sophie Yates LuWhat/Who does Sophie want to promote? Sophie runs No Migrant Justice Without Economic Justice, a programme for people working towards migrants justice who want to examine the intersection of that work and economic justice. To find out more, visit:https://peopleseconomyuk.org/get-involved/migrant-justice/www.instagram.com/peopleseconomyTo find out more about Decolonising Economics, visit www.instagram.com/decolonisingeconomics

Meet Iqra Iftikhar, a multidisciplinary creative. She thrives on connecting with others and sharing her sense of self, so that they feel comfortable to do the same.  She's constantly exploring who she am, through mental health advocacy, community, building meaningful relationships, and through creative pursuits.  Find out which home we visit next fortnightly Sunday

Meet Nonhlanhla Makuyana (they/them) , a Zimbabwean-born, UK-based community economist, educator, and community organiser. They are a co-director at Decolonising Economics, where they work to cultivate a Black and People of Colour-led solidarity economy movement. Nonhlanhla’s research focuses on past, present, and future Afrikan and Afro-diasporic economies rooted in liberation. They are the curator of Medicine: Lessons in Black Economic Interdependence, an oral history archival project exploring how the African oral tradition can help communicate the relationships, tools, and skills essential to historic and contemporary movements for Black British economic self-determination. Their work aims to make community economics accessible to marginalised communities and, through political education, to shift resources, wealth, and power to transform local economies. Through training hundreds of community organisers, organisations, and groups, Nonhlanhla developed The Necessity Paths Framework, which represents the informal routes marginalised communities use to meet their needs when the capitalist system fails them, drawing inspiration from pluralist economies. Where can you find Nonhlanhla? @itmenoni Who/What does Nonhlanhla want to promote? https://www.instagram.com/luacariocaafroguide/?hl=en https://mamahealthandpoverty.org/

Meet Abdirahim Hassan, the Founder Coffee Afrik CIC an award-winning lived experience-led community organisation working across Hackney and Tower Hamlets that aims to disrupt established systems and works with and for marginalised folk in a number of different ways. Coffee Afrik is currently leading seven hubs, across 26 projects, which include a problematic drug use safe space for Muslims, a research lab, an award winning youth hub, two women’s hubs led by and for Muslim women, and a systemic litigation space. Coffee Afrik have just been awarded £1,000,000 to further expand and scale its reach and model. Our work is inspired by everything rooted in Islam, land justice, reimagining public health and the Black Panther party and its community programming. Coffee Afrik is designed with key principles which include love, care and liberatory harm reduction Where can you find Abdirahim? @coffeeafrikcic on instagram and @coffeeafrique on X. Who/What does Abdirahim want to promote? Parliament event on the 15th July celebrating our latest research, recent grant award £400,000 and £1,000,000. Handing back our hubs to the community, through a structured governance framework.  See you next Sunday!

Meet Edward Adonteng, an essayist, poet, artist, gardener and academic from South London. He credits himself as a bridge builder, facilitating discourses on several themes and creating platforms for people to thrive and fully exercise their ingenuity. Where can you find Edward? IG: edwardadonteng Website: https://edwardadonteng.info/  Who/What does Edward want to promote? Edward's Substack. :@edwardadonteng. Events-wise: Urban Nostalgia Part 2 at the Garden Museum on the 15th JulyThe Forge: A Poetry Lab at Peckham Palms on the 17th JulySpirituality and Gardens at Barnes Common coming up on the 26th July.People can find all of these on my Instagram.  See you next Sunday!

Meet Naz Hamdi (aka NazfromNewham), a writer, archivist and curator from Newham, east London and she mostly documents music, film, nightlife and culture.  Where can you find Naz? @NazfromNewham on all socials See you next Sunday!

Meet Svetlana Chigozie Onye, a writer, journalist, singer, and climate justice advocate. She leads The Eco-Anxiety Africa Project (TEAP), which investigates the mental health impacts of climate change on African youth and builds community resilience. She is currently producing a documentary about TEAP’s work. A contributor to the UNICEF-backed African Youth Position Paper on Climate Change and Health, she is also a Director of the UK Youth Climate Coalition and has spoken at COP29 on transparency and governance. Her journalism centers on climate impacts in the Global South, and she has spoken with MPs on youth inclusion in climate policymaking. As a singer-songwriter, her music has been played on BBC Radio, KISS, Soul Urge and more, and she was featured on BBC Women’s Hour discussing her songwriting journey. A TuWezeshe Fellow, she was selected for the Writers on the Rise Programme and shortlisted for the Heroica Poetry Prize. Where can you find Svetlana? Insta: @storyofsvetlana @hertempestongue @notactuallyradical @teap.africa Who/What does Svetlana want to promote?  My debut EP was released last year and is now on all streaming platforms. My newest single ‘Crash Out’ was released last month, also on all DSP’s.one of the fav articles I've written: a book is a seed: the power of fiction in shaping just societies (shado mag) - A book is a seed: The power of fiction in shaping just societiessubscribe to my substack! Her Tempest Tongue: https://open.substack.com/pub/hertempesttongue?r=2mhotf&utm_medium=ios where I’ll be sharing new essays soon.follow TEAP on socials to see the work we’re doing across the African continent, building resilience through research, innovation and space-making.See you next Sunday!