Make Sierra Leone Famous

Make Sierra Leone Famous

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Make Sierra Leone Famous episodes

  • How Drizilik Made It From The Academy To Sierra Leone Music’s Mainstage

    Host Vickie Remoe is in conversation with award winning Sierra Leonean hip hop and afrobeats artist Drizilik, also known as Benjamin M. George. Drizilik shares how he convinced his conservative Krio family to accept his career, language as a tool for authenticity and plans for his upcoming album Ashobi.

    Show Notes

    Listen to Drizilik’s Popular

    Ship to Sierra Leone from the USA with Dot Bleu

    Find your next outfit at The Doll House Boutique

    To make Sierra Leone better for women and girls in Salone better support the Asmaa James Foundation https://bit.ly/3ybDLz5

    55 min
  • How Makeda Cole and SLACfest Built England’s Coolest Community For Sierra Leonean Creatives

    Host Vickie Remoe is in conversation with Makeda Cole, co-founder of the Sierra Leone Arts and Culture Festival.  The British Sierra Leonean curator shares how she came to embrace her Sierra Leonean identity and how she created a platform to connect Sierra Leoneans in the UK through arts, and culture.

    Show Notes

    Listen to Kaygee ADN Royalty: https://spoti.fi/3LO74M4

    Watch the last edition of SLACFest: Beyond Borders; https://bit.ly/39nLcbN

    Follow Makeda L. Cole on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3FdwC2H

    Ship to Sierra Leone from the USA with Dot Bleu: https://bit.ly/3OV57PF

    Find your next outfit at The Doll House Boutique: https://bit.ly/3LJOEvH

    To make Sierra Leone better for women and girls in Salone better support the Asmaa James Foundation https://bit.ly/3ybDLz5

    1 hr
  • How Usifu Jalloh Became Sierra Leone’s Cowfoot Prince - Part II

    Host Vickie Remoe continues the conversation with Usifu Jalloh; the Sierra Leonean storyteller who took a quarter-century to accept his gifts. In the second half of this conversation, the topic is cultural reclamation for national development. How can culture help Sierra Leoneans solve local problems?

    Show Notes

    Watch Usifu Jalloh’s The Tortoise and the Princess: https://bit.ly/36SdtGK

    Ship to Sierra Leone from the USA with Dot Bleu

    Find your next outfit at The Doll House Boutique

    To make Sierra Leone better for women and girls in Salone better support the Asmaa James Foundation https://bit.ly/3ybDLz5

    48 min
  • How Usifu Jalloh Became Sierra Leone's Cowfoot Prince

    Host Vickie Remoe is in conversation with Sierra Leone’s master storyteller and award-winning educator Usifu Jalloh. Usifu rejected storytelling as his life’s calling for 25 years until a turning point brought him self-acceptance. He spent decades afraid to accept cultural creativity as his profession because his post-colonial education indoctrination told him there all things African had little value.

    Show Notes

    Watch Usifu Jalloh’s full performance at the Jazz Cafe in London: https://bit.ly/3vLM4hZ

    Ship to Sierra Leone from the USA with Dot Bleu

    Find your next outfit at The Doll House Boutique

    To make Sierra Leone better for women and girls in Salone better support the Asmaa James Foundation https://bit.ly/3ybDLz5

    48 min
  • The History of Bunce Island: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection
    Bunce Island is Sierra Leone’s World Heritage site that served as a major slave trading post for 300 years. Today it's restored ruins hold the story of Sierra Leone-American cultural heritage and connection.Join this conversation with Isatu Smith, former head of Sierra Leone’s Monument & Relics Commission as she shares the fascinating history of Bunce Island and the preservationists working to restore it.Show NotesFor More on Sierra Leone and Slavery Check out The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University https://bit.ly/2Ue5ZXL.About Bunce IslandBunce is a 1600 feet uninhabitted island lying approximately 20 miles up the Sierra Leone River from Freetown, the Capital city of Sierra Leone. Bunce Island was established as a slave trading station in 1670. From 1670 to 1728 two companies- the Gambia Adventurers and the Royal African Company of England ran Bunce Island one after the other.  Bunce Island’s prosperity ran from 1744 to 1807 during private management by a consortium of London firms. At their slave trading heights British traders shipped tens of thousands of African slaves to the Americas from this place. The trading fort was subjected to attacks a number of times by other Europeans. Slave trading ceased on the island with the abolition of slace trade in 1808. It was however in the 1840 that the Bunce Island fort was finally abandoned. Bunce Island was declared a National Monument in 1948. (Read More)https://bit.ly/3xvvB0EBunce Island - World Monuments Fund (https://bit.ly/2Sc2roh) The Language You Cry In (1998, Film) https://bit.ly/3cQ77HpJoseph Opala in His Own Words (https://bit.ly/3xyMjw9)The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection by Joseph Opala (https://amzn.to/2S9Isqe)For more information on Colin Powell: https://n.pr/3wGaEQxTo listen to 'Beautiful' by Jimmy B: https://bit.ly/3xxC9f9
    48 min
  • Sixty Years of Independence with Mr. Sierra Leone
    Join me for Part II of a conversation with one of my favorite writers and cultural historians, Ade Daramy.We’re talking about Ade’s life and work, building community for and with Sierra Leoneans in the UK diaspora. I first talked to Ade on our October 29th episode about April 27 1961, and the early years after Independence when under the leadership of Sir Milton Margai, Sierra Leoneans believed excellence and greatness was within reach.This time we talk about corruption and state decay in the 80s , and their impact on a generation who had dreamt of returning home from the diaspora.We also talk about Ade’s life as a British civil servant and the things he learned being within earshot of retired British colonial officers on how they stole diamonds from Sierra Leone. We talk about neocolonialism and Sierra Leone’s continued courtship with foreign powers that exert influence over the nation’s leaders.We talk about the war years, identity national pride, and what makes us optimistic about the future of Sierra LeoneTo listen to 'Sweet Salone' by Lady Felicia: https://bit.ly/3gD6l3lFor more information on the work Ade Daramy does:https://bit.ly/3azWqYy
    1 hr 6 min
  • Who Is Who? Sierra Leoneans Who Shaped History
    In conversation with Akindele Decker co-author of "20 Icons of Sierra Leone Who Shaped History".Vickie kicks off this conversation with  Akindele’s home leaving story and quest to maintain a Sierra Leonean identity in the diaspora.  They duo also share their experiences tracing their families’ genealogy from West Africa to the New World, and immortalizing Sierra Leoneans in books to remind younger generations of their heritage.Get the book 20 Icons of Sierra Leoneans Who Shaped History by Akindele Decker & Adrian Labor: https://amzn.to/38GRaRYTo listen to 'Sweet Africa' by M2: https://bit.ly/38G87Ms
    56 min
  • Masculinity & Male Identity in Sierra Leone
    In conversation with Hindolo Pokawa founder of Sierra Leone Foundation for New Democracy as he prepares to walk 315 miles from Kailahun to Freetown in solidarity with victims of sexual violence. Hindolo shares his childhood memories growing up in a house with defined gender roles, domestic violence, and toxic masculinity. We discuss the burden of womanhood in Sierra Leone, lost indigenous values that once revered women, and how men can unlearn toxic masculinity.For the Sierra Leonean man ready to accept that their father and male relations normalized violence and force against women this Make Sierra Leone Famous Podcast episode is a good place to start.To listen to "Siahuna Maraidee" by Amie Kallon: https://bit.ly/3pyPu2SFor more on Sierra Leone Foundation for New Democracy: http://bit.ly/3pLEW0F
    50 min
  • Sierra Leone’s Civil War - A Center For Memory to Honor Our Trauma Forever
    In conversation Joseph Ben-Kaifala founder of the Center for Memory and Reparations Sierra Leone.Remoe and Kaifala explore the origins of the war, the way people forget and remember, and the lessons from the Truth & Reconciliation Commission that Sierra Leone has yet to put into practice to consolidate peace and national healing.Kaifala’s survivor story starts when as a boy, he and his father are imprisoned for being on the wrong side of Liberia’s and Sierra Leone’s wars.For more on Center for Memory and Reparations Sierra Leone: https://bit.ly/2LDBuGFTo listen to 'We Lek We Salone' by Collins Pratt: https://bit.ly/3naK5ygFor more on Collins Pratt: https://bit.ly/3n4PDKM
    55 min

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Make Sierra Leone Famous with Vickie Remoe - Conversations that expand your understanding of Sierra Leone's history, culture, and identity.