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In this episode of Your Auntie's Could Never, the aunties gather to unpack the viral Gina Yashere clip from Godfrey the Comedian's 154 Africa podcast that had the entire Black internet in a chokehold. Gina's comments about Caribbean people specifically Jamaicans not knowing their African ancestry until Roots came out have stirred up DECADES of unresolved tension between African and Caribbean communities in the UK.

But this conversation goes SO much deeper than one clip.

We're talking about:

🔹 The bullying African kids faced from Caribbean kids in 70s & 80s Britain — and vice versa

🔹 Why Gina's generalisation of Jamaicans stung so many people

🔹 The role the British education system played in keeping Black children ignorant of their history

🔹 Colourism, class divides, and the "acceptable Black" pecking order

🔹 Marcus Garvey, Nanny of the Maroons, and the Caribbean icons Gina's comments erased

🔹 African identity denial — when children pretended to be Jamaican to fit in

🔹 The Windrush generation's fight for Black rights in the UK

🔹 Why the "divide and conquer" seed is STILL growing in our communities

🔹 What unity actually looks like for the diaspora in 2025 and beyond

This wasn't a clean, PC conversation. It was raw, it was real, and it was NECESSARY. Because if we can't sit at the same table and have the uncomfortable conversations, how are we ever going to move forward as a people?

Whether you're Jamaican, Nigerian, Grenadian, Ghanaian, Trinidadian, Black British, African American — this is YOUR story too.

🗣️ WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU:

Did you experience the African vs Caribbean divide growing up? Do you think Gina was wrong, or was she telling her truth? Drop your thoughts in the comments — let's keep this conversation going.

Timestamps:

0:00 — Intro & welcome to the aunties

0:30 — Setting the scene: What did Gina Yashere actually say?

2:20 — The Roots comment that set the internet on fire

5:10 — Was Gina lying? Lived experience vs generalisation

10:45 — The bullying: African kids vs Caribbean kids in 70s/80s Britain

18:30 — "African boo-boo" and culturally specific cusses — where did kids learn them?

25:15 — Identity crisis: When Africans pretended to be Jamaican

32:00 — The class divide: Middle-class Africans, West Indians, and the pecking order

38:20 — Caribbean legends Gina's comments erased: Marcus Garvey, Nanny of the Maroons

44:10 — "My mum would rather I had white friends than Jamaican friends"

50:30 — The white man attacked her at 12: What does that do to a child?

57:00 — Saturday schools, community work, and who shows up for Black Britain?

1:05:00 — The bigger picture: Divide and conquer is STILL the plan

1:10:30 — Grace vs accountability: How do we have these conversations?

1:15:00 — Final thoughts: We're stronger together

1:18:00 — Outro & where to find us

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Your favourite Aunties, Ak, Farrah and Nana are back with another packed episode.

AUNTYVENTION

🫂 This week’s Auntyvention starts with a speed dating disaster. One woman paid for a dating event only to discover it was almost entirely women. She's asking for her money back and wants to know: where are all the Black men over 40? Why do these events always seem packed with women, and where exactly are the men hanging out?

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY

💐 Kanya King, the legacy of what she built with the MOBO Awards and its impact on Black British music, culture and generations of artists is being celebrated following her passing.

💐 Nicky Slimting who has taken his No Phones parties to another level! The latest one, on a grounded aeroplane!

ENEMIES OF PROGRESS

🚩 The men who ignored the dress code at Nicky's event. Mandem, why is dressing up such a struggle?

🚩 Francis Foster for his suspect views around DEI, race, education and what teachers should expect from Black boys in the classroom.

🚩 The Love Island Ope debate: Is he an enemy for continuing to pronounce his Nigerian name incorrectly?

🚩 Mississippi police after a one-year-old child, Kohen Kartier Wiley, was killed when an officer opened fire on a vehicle during a response to an alleged shoplifting incident.

🚩 Kemi Badenoch for saying she's for increasing stop-and-search of Black boys.

🚩 Those trying to take Brixton Market out of local hands, as traders, residents and community groups fight to protect one of London's most important cultural spaces.

This is the honest conversation you won’t hear anywhere else.

Watch and listen now.

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This week Nana & AK solve some dilemmas

Your favourite Aunties, Ak, Farrah and Nana are back with another packed episode.

AUNTYVENTION

🫂 This week’s Auntyvention asks a question many of us have faced. When two close friends fall out, each has their own version of events and accuses the other of lying. Who do you believe? The friend you've known for decades or the one who came later but has never given you a reason to doubt them?

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY

💐 Lewis Hamilton: should he be welcomed or barred for saying there should be a cap on wealth? Whilst being wealthy himself and dating the wealthy Kim Kardashian.

💐 Chanelle Sykes aka @LoveChanellenje, beauty creator, founder of Dainty Girl Beauty and proud representative of the two scoops gang.

ENEMIES OF PROGRESS

🚩 America & FIFA's mishandling of World Cup 2026. From seemingly racialised visa issues, entry bans and ridic ticket prices.

🚩 Donald Trump for pulling up to the Knicks game, jinxing their winning streak and turning a basketball match into security madness. Watch parties cancelled vibes thoroughly disturbed.

🚩 Elon Musk and others accused of fuelling tensions around the Belfast riots through inflammatory social media posts and anti immigration rhetoric.

🚩 Gwyneth Paltrow for promoting luxury property developments in Israel while the war in Gaza continues to dominate global headlines.

🚩 The Karmelo Anthony case verdict and the adultification of young Black people.

This is the honest conversation you won’t hear anywhere else.

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Your favourite Aunties, Ak, Farrah and Nana are coming to you live from SXSW London for a special episode packed with dilemmas, culture and nonsense that needs addressing.

AUNTYVENTION

🫂 Should she stay or should she go? After six years of marriage and six years of cheating, one woman finally asked her husband for a divorce. Now he wants another chance. The Aunties unpack whether some relationships are worth saving and when enough is enough.

🫂 And a guy is considering ending a 20-year friendship after watching his best friend become what he sees as a deeply disengaged father. Is it fair to judge someone else's parenting that harshly, or does character matter?

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY

💐 Ruka Hair, founders Tendai Moyo and Ugo Agbai, after securing $4.5 million in new funding to continue transforming the textured hair and extensions industry through innovation and science.

💐 Jay Z following a headline-making Roots Picnic performance that reminded everyone why he remains one of Hip Hop's GOATS.

ENEMIES OF PROGRESS

🚩 The jury that cleared Rick Chow, the South Carolina store owner who shot and killed 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack Belton following a dispute over alleged stolen bottles of water, reigniting painful comparisons to Latasha Harlins and Trayvon Martin.

🚩 The theatre company that thought Dreamgirls didn't need Black people, after a predominantly white production of the musical had its licence revoked following public backlash.

🚩 The US and Kenyan governments over plans for a US funded Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya, raising serious questions about transparency, sovereignty and who carries global risk.

🚩 David French, whose comments about only truly understanding racism after adopting his Ethiopian daughter sparked debate about empathy, privilege and people only caring when it becomes personal.

🚩 The Trump administration bombing over 205 Caribbean people under the guise of combating drug trafficking.

🚩 Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for their controversial luxury resort plans on Albania's Sazan Island, facing protests and backlash This is the honest conversation you won't hear anywhere else..

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Your Favourite Aunties get into Remi Burgz's business.

They get into life as a Black Queer woman, dating, raising children, her radio career and what she can't live without.

Your favourite Aunties, Ak, Farrah and Nana, are back with another packed episode, joined by the long overdue Remi Burgz, broadcaster, DJ, music journalist, cultural commentator and one of the voices behind Spotify's Who We Be Talks.

AUNTYVENTION

🫂 This week’s Auntyvention asks a simple question: when does a joke stop being a joke? After creator Nigel Tatem shared how years of racist "banter" at school left him feeling isolated. The Aunties unpack the difference between mutual jokes and making someone the punchline every day.

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY

💐 Jodeci, as Forever My Lady celebrates 35 years. One of the greatest R&B debuts of all time, four huge hits, decades of influence, plenty of ups and downs, and now finally back on tour.

ENEMIES OF PROGRESS

🚩 The Mama Drama podcast debate for the careless way they discussed feeling aroused while breastfeeding.

🚩 Kevin Hart for dismissing criticism of the George Floyd joke at his Netflix roast by declaring that "people are stupid", while sidestepping questions around accountability.

🚩 The pastor who tried to part the sea, because faith is one thing but social media miracles are becoming another thing entirely.

🚩 Patrick Ta for trademarking "transition blush", a term popularised by Black MUA Painted by Esther.

🚩 Judge Nicholas Rowland for sentencing three boys involved in the r*pe of two girls with youth rehabilitation orders while stating he wanted to avoid "criminalising" the perpetrators.

This is the honest conversation you won’t hear anywhere else.

Watch and listen now.

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Your favourite Aunties AK & Farrah are joined by Radio 1Xtra presenter Nadia Jae & Receipts podcast co-host Just Call Me Audrey ...

With Farrah and AK having met in college and Nadia and Audrey having met in Uni the four discuss their friendships and how they've maintained them for all these years.

Chilli from the legendary R&B Group TLC joined Aunty AK for a quick chat about the upcoming RnB Summer Ball at the O2 on Friday 19 June 2026 featuring Jodeci, TLC and Blackstreet.

They discussed TLC's generationally impactful legacy, how to age gracefully and healthily and what pisses Chilli off!

Your favourite Aunties, Ak and Farrah are back with another packed episode and the couch is full today.

Joining the Aunties are:

💐 Podcast queen Audrey from The Receipts

💐 Radio queen Nadia Jae from BBC 1Xtra

💐 Fitness queen Gina aka Just Geen

AUNTYVENTION

🫂 This week’s Auntyvention is for K Michelle who revealed she allows her husband to sleep with other women, watches the videos back and does not mind… as long as he is not paying their bills. Is this progression or submission?

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY

💐 John Boyega and Tae Heckard after sending the internet into full detective mode with rumours the pair may have quietly tied the knot.

💐 Black American university graduates, celebrated by Audrey for making it through, showing up and pushing forward.

ENEMIES OF PROGRESS

🚩 Police, security culture and excessive force following the death of Yves Sakila in Dublin after being restrained by security guards, alongside growing outrage around the handling of the Brighton sisters case and fake AI videos circulating online.

🚩 Based and Bougie aka Sintish A Black woman spouting anti immigration and anti Muslim commentary and showing her ignorance on Piers Morgan.

🚩 Bad B*tches Only Season 2, because at what point does chaos for clicks just become embarrassing?

This is the honest conversation you won’t hear anywhere else.

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