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Oluwaseun Babalola discusses the role of storytelling in the reclamation and definition of African identities. She highlights the power of storytelling as a tool for social change, the challenges African storytellers face in navigating expectations and stereotypes, and the need for authenticity and integrity in storytelling.

In this conversation, Ehime Ora discusses her spiritual practice and ancestral veneration. She shares how her journey unfolded and explains the importance of ancestral veneration in African cultures and how it contributes to resilience and identity.

Hakim Adi explores the history and significance of Pan-Africanism. He shares his personal journey as the first historian of African descent in the UK, discovering African history and the exclusion of African heritage in mainstream narratives, and delves into historical examples of Pan-Africanism, the challenges and limitations of Pan-African institutions, and the goals, principles, and values of Pan-Africanism that are needed for collective action and empowerment

Who are you? What is your role in the social change ecosystem? How do you use your gifts to serve your community while nourishing and caring for yourself? Watch the replay of this workshop with Ijeruka's founder, Anwulika Okonjo, to reflect on these questions and more.

In this interview, Anwulika Okonjo and Uzoma Orji, discussed how we can begin to challenge notions of progress and travel through time to become emissaries of hope, astronauts voyaging into the dream space and returning with the tools needed for us to bring it to fruition.

Myths and folktales are the lenses through which we have made sense of everything. Learn how epics in the African literary canon draw from folklore and mythology, including from the structures and techniques of oral storytelling.