After a very peculiar dream, I wake up feeling very afro and VERY pessimistic. After fighting with the Afro-pessimists, I finally GET IT. Am I an Afro-pessimist? Who can say? Currently, questioning if freedom is real and if we will ever feel it. Also, Hoodoo is a religion – but, it's also sometimes about killing your slut neighbor. not.

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CREDITS

Host/Head Witch: Juju Bae @itsjujubae

Executive Producer: Kenya Denise @kenya_digg_it from Domino Sound @dominosoundco

Associate Producer, Archival Producer & Social Producer: Oreoluwa Akinyode @beyondthisvessel 

Sound Designer/Editor: Kobe Guilford @alookthroughmylense

with production support from Alexandra diPalma @lsdipalma from Domino Sound

Beyoncé - Freedom

Destiny’s Child - “Independent Women, Part 1”

Lil Wayne - “Georgia”

Frank Ocean - “Swim Good”

Mahalia Jackson - “Power in the Blood”

Juju Bae - “a little juju”

LEARN MORE

Frank B. Wilderson III, “Afropessimism”, Author Events, April 28th, 2020, Youtube

Orlando Patterson -  “Slavery and Social Death”

Neema Githere’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/take.back.theinternet/

https://www.findingneema.online 

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