Yams & Yuca

We are joined with Micallar Walker, internationally renown marketer, event producer, audience development consultant, and Founder of Dark Matter Agency. We speak about building a community of authentic Black audiences, and the importance of centring and amplifying Black voices in film, cinema, publishing, and the Arts. 

Join the next Dark Matter x Round Table Books Book Club: Rootless with Krystle Zara Appiah on Wednesday 27th March 2024. For details visit HERE.

Connect with Micallar Walker:

Website: ⁠www.darkmatteragency.co.uk

Instagram: ⁠@darkmattermktg

YouTube: ⁠@darkmattermktg

X/Twitter: @darkmattermktg_

TikTok: @darkmattermktg

Our latest episode features Apex Zero, a multi-disciplinary artist who works as an emcee, beatmaker, filmmaker, photographer, and writer, and is originally from West London. He joins us for a deep and insightful conversation, where we learn about how he honours the ancestors to create future possibilities through his work.

Apex’s newest project ‘Drummer Warrior Storyteller’, incorporates music, film, dance, photography, painting and immersive live theatre performances. 'Drummer Warrior Storyteller (part 2)' is available here.

Connect with Apex Zero:

Website: https://www.apexzero.co.uk/

Instagram: @apex.zero

YouTube: @apexzero

World renowned barber and entrepreneur Mark Maciver, aka SliderCuts, joins us at the table to discuss the key components to building an international business whilst staying connected to local communities.

Connect with Mark:

Facebook - ⁠@slidercuts⁠

Instagram -⁠@slidercuts⁠

Twitter - ⁠@slidercuts⁠

Website - ⁠https://www.slidercuts.com⁠

We're back with Season 3! To start off our new season, we speak with Araba Ofori-Acquah, a healer, DJ, cultural curator and award-winning writer, about her new book, Return to Source. We learn how to unlock the power of African-Centred Wellness to develop health and well-being within the global Black community.

Return to Source is OUT NOW, and is available here, and at all major book-stores.

Connect with Araba:

Instagram: @araba.oa

Website: www.arabaoa.com

Writer, photographer, and video maker Riaz Phillips joins the Yams & Yuca table to talk all things food, heritage, culture and community with the release of his latest book 'West Winds: Recipes, History and Tales from Jamaica'. We discuss the many ways we are connected through food across the African Diasporas.

Connect with Riaz @riazphillips and pick up a copy of 'West Winds: Recipes, History and Tales from Jamaica' at your local bookstore.

We are joined by Gloria Ugwarelojo Biachi, a Lagos based Dance Artist, Choreographer, Fitness instructor, Actor and Costume Designer. We learn about how Gloria's determination fuels her to continue to achieve her goals and remain on the path to success.

Connect with Gloria at @mz_teshi and https://gloriabiachi.blogspot.com

Learn more about 'The Rite of Spring' presented by the Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler’s Wells, here.

Visual artist and teacher Birungi Kawooya joins Heather and Kamara for a heartfelt conversation about celebrating Black Womxn within the arts and making space for authentic expressions of joy and healing within her practice.

Connect with Birungi @birungiart and via www.birungikawooyaart.com

This week we are joined by Caribbean-American author, Charmaine Wilkerson. We speak about her debut novel Black Cake, the stories that we inherit from the past and the present, and how they shape our identity.

Black Cake publishes on 3rd February 2022, and is available here.

Connect with Charmaine:

Instagram: @CharmSpen1

Twitter: @CharmSpen1

Filmmaker, Producer and Director Sam Tebandeke join us at the Yams & Yuca Table to discuss the beauty of international collaborations within the African Diaspora. With a human approach we open ourselves to connect with many people across the globe.

Connect with Sam @tebandekelutaaya and via kiasitv.com

In this week's episode, we sit down at the table with the first of our 'Rising Star' guests, Patience James (plus a cameo appearance from a special guest in the background)! We talk to the accomplished dancer, choreographer, actress and teacher, about how she manages to find a balance whilst continuing to share authentic African culture through her work and her ever popular 'Afro in Heels' class.   

Connect with Patience at:

Website: www.patiencejchoreography.co.uk

Instagram: @patiencegop, @afroinheels, & @GopDancers

YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/PatienceJ