Home Sayings Podcast

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 : Instagram

Find 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/@TheTripleCripples

Who/ 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 Instagram
@sianabanguraproductions
www.sianabangura.com 

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