Muthoni Drummer Queen on creativity, colonialism, and Kenya's place in the world of music.

Show notes:

Muthoni on IG

Muthoni’s music on Spotify

Muthoni’s official site

Blankets & Wine Concert Series

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Talking African stories, LGBTQ rights in Kenya, and surviving cancer with Kevin Mwachiro.

Show notes:

Nipe Story, podcast hosted by Kevin Mwachiro

Java House, Kenyan coffee chain

Video interview from Berlin with Kevin Mwachiro

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Nairobi-based food obsessive Joshua Obaga chews khat with host Nathan Thonburgh and talks about the roots and culture of Kenyan cuisine.

Show notes: 

Joshua Obaga’s Instagram

Chewing Betel Nut in Myanmar from Roads & Kingdoms

Article on Joshua Obaga’s art

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A conversation in Havana with singer/songwriter/promoter—and daughter of Cuban rock royalty—Eme Alfonso.

Show notes:

Havana World Music Festival

Eme Alfonso video project: Para Mestizar

Eme Alfonso on Instagram

Eme’s album Voy on BandCamp

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Filmmaker and journalist Shravan Vidyarthi drinks with The Trip in Nairobi and talks about Kenya's 44th official tribe—Kenyans of South Asian descent—and about his project on the martyred photojournalist, his uncle Priya Ramrakha.

Paul Theroux on Priya Ramrakha (New Yorker)

Priya Ramrakha: The Recovered Archive (Book)

Intersect, a global production company founded by Shravan Vidyarthi

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A new generation of Cuban activists is questioning everything, including the heavy, meat-laden Cuban diet. Nancy Cepero, vegan chef, queer anti-racist activist and artist, is proud to be counted among them.

Nancy Cepero artwork for sale

Nancy Cepero on Instagram

Nancy Cepero on Tik-Tok      

Grados Restaurant Havana

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The Trip's five episodes from the heroic city of Nairobi start strong with a rum dawa and a conversation with iconic Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu.

Show notes:

Announcement of Wanuri Kahiu’s upcoming feature adaption of The Hate U Give

Rafiki trailer 

TEDx Wanuri Kahiu talk

Kenya Supreme Court Anti-Homosexuality Ruling

Hajooj Kuka’s documentary Beats of the Antonov 

Afrobubblegum

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Food writer, podcaster and producer Chris Ying explains why he doesn't mourn the Mission's good old days

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Mónica Baró is an independent journalist, a difficult thing to be in a country where the authorities patrol public information like sharks on the reef. She and The Trip's host, foreign correspondent Nathan Thornburgh, talk about their respective arrests in Cuba, and about why she does what she does, despite all the risks.

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La Cocina is a heroic San Francisco non-profit that helps women—mostly immigrants and women of color—start and sustain their own businesses in food. La Cocina's Emiliana Puyana is ideally suited to help them realize their dreams. So we drank negronis in 2019 and talked about it all.

Links:

La Cocina’s website

We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream

Por Una Cabeza by Carlos Gardel

La Cocina Gift Boxes

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