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Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome to "The Scenarios" This is a new segment within Afrolit that will tackle situations that we may or may not have been in! We are ALL for the hypotheticals too. Send in your scenarios and we would LOVE to answer them and give them your feedback. Today's Scenarios was quite trivial:  The first one painted a picture of a very tough relationship, where the father ends in j...

Hey Afrolit Fam, we're back with another special edition, 2020 is truly such a wild year: we discuss the fiasco between Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez.... We will never support or condone violence against women. We stand with Megan! Debate Episode : Click Here Use the code AFROLIT to get 15% off your purchase of Custom Press- On Nails from http://nalasnails.com/ We would love to hear YOUR VOIC...

Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome to "The Scenarios" This is a new segment within Afrolit that will tackle situations that we may or may not have been in! We are ALL for the hypotheticals too. Send in your scenarios and we would LOVE to answer them and give them your feedback. Today's Scenarios were very deep and quite personal: The first one painted a picture of a very tough relationship, where the father...

Hey Afrolit Fam, we're back with another special edition, we disect BLACK IS KING, the film by Beyonce We discussed: - Lontia's little secret - Each song and video attached to Black is King - Did Beyonce Appropriate ? - What does African Luxury look like? - How the story relates to the original movie - Our total rating of Black is King Link to Black is King on Disney + : Click Here We would love t...

Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome to "The Scenarios" This is a new segment within Afrolit that will tackle situations that we may or may not have been in! We are ALL for the hypotheticals too. Send in your scenarios and we would LOVE to answer them and give them your feedback. Today's Scenario was an interesting one: Your Boo received an explicit video from a friend and he tells you to open it, what do you...

Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome to another episode of feel good content! We were joined this week with Wani Le Frére, a spoken word artist, repping central Africa currently based DOWN UNDER in Melbourne, Australia. His story is quite unique as his family became political refugees due to the Congo Wars, being on of the first African- Black families in New Zealand, and how his story has helped shaped his w...

Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome to "The Scenarios" This is a new segment within Afrolit that will tackle situations that we may or may not have been in! We are ALL for the hypotheticals too. Send in your scenarios and we would LOVE to answer them and give them your feedback. Today's Scenario was an interesting one: Would you end an engagement over your partner being a virgin or if their body count was AS...

Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome to "The Scenarios" This is a new segment within Afrolit that will tackle situations that we may or may not have been in! We are ALL for the hypotheticals too. Send in your scenarios and we would LOVE to answer them and give them your feedback.  Today's Scenario was a heavy one: Can you stay with significant other, KNOWING that someone has come forward stating that you...

Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome back another episode with some feel good content. We spoke with multitalented Kamau, know as Mau or Kamau with sunflowers on the inter webs. We discussed his background, his talents between film, photography and music and his ability to showcase his personality online authentically, also the infamous complex magazine post and going viral 3 times, but all in all: that not h...

Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome back another episode with some feel good content. We spoke with Agyakomah on how to stay the course as a creative, especially when your family isn't fully supportive of your dreams and much more. Listen to her new single here: Pay me what you owe:  We Discussed: - What has been keeping us motivated - How our parents can deter us from our goals - Being really good at s...

Hey Afrolit Fam, welcome to "The Scenarios" This is a new segment within Afrolit that will tackle situations that we may or may not have been in! We are ALL for the hypotheticals too. Send in your scenarios and we would LOVE to answer them and give them your feedback. All men above the age of 18 have assaulted and/or have witnessed or been told about an assault but remained silent within the situa...

Hey Afrolit Fam, we decided to ask the controversial question that's probably been on everyone's mind at some point.  It's even MORE pressing to now have conversations with black men to get their take and we decided to take things up a notch and have the first AFROLIT DEBATE to argue the statement: All men above the age of 18 have assaulted and/or have witnessed or been told about an assault...

Hey Afrolit Fam, we had to hop on the mic really quick and talk about what has been happening all around us. It was be completely insenstive to not address the issues we have been experiences however WE ARE TIYAD!  We discussed: - Why we think Black People are being forced to educate everyone - White Guilt vs White People learning - If we can REALLY all get along - Do brands ACTUALLY care abo...

Hey Afrolit Fam, this week we started a new series topic on the MISCONCEPTIONS AND TABOOS WITHIN AFRICAN CULTURE. When you think about Taboos within our culture, what the first thing that comes to mind?  Yup, we went there! We talked about Sex, Intimacy and everything in between with our FIRST GUEST of Season 3 @Pendajai ! Penda is a Senegalese-American NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate, and f...

Hey Afrolit Fam, WE'RE BACK AND WE'RE BETTER! no bryson tiller! see what I did there?  Afrolit is back and I'm excited to be here.  I'm excited to announce that I have a new co-host for the season: LONTIA KANGWA!!! If you have been following the show, then you have probably heard her voice before but I'm excited to have her join me weekly and get into some great conversations. We discuss...

Hey Afrolit Fam, LONG TIME NO SPEAK haha see what I did there?  Afrolit is back and I'm closing out season 2 strong.  As mentioned, this episode was recorded in November 2019. My guest was Diarrha N'Diaye, Representing Senegal, she is brand consultant, with Loreal, Glossier & many more! Currently, she is on a journey to starting her own brand: By Amicolé, a clean beauty brand from bl...

Hey Afrolit Fam, HAPPY NEW YEAR!! IT'S 2020!!! LET'S GO!  This week I had the pleasure of having My Fellow Podcasters: Naana and Obie of WorkBae, professionals who met at work and started a lovely podcast. Naana is from the Boogie Down Bronx, by the way of Ghana and Obie is originally from Kenya! AKA both sides of me! This was such a fun episode to record, definitely check out their podcast a...

Hey Afrolit Fam, Thank you for tuning in!! This week I had the pleasure of having Tolu, a creative from Nigeria, who spent her formative years in the USA.  We talked about her journey from Nigeria to the USA, Moving to NYC on her own at 16!!!, Her design process, being featured on VOGUE twice, Seeing her  on Beyonce's INSTAGRAM through the BROWN SKIN GIRL complication video, her favorite...

Today is Afrolit's Birthday!! 3 years ago, I started this journey and as you know my story has NOT been linear, BUT I wanted to make this anniversary episode special by hosting a FRIENDGIVING edition of Afrolit AND I have relaunched AFROLIT LIVE, so expect more youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMXK140xCG0&feature=youtu.be I decided to bring my friends on to the show and talk abo...

Hey Afrolit Fam, I thought I'd have another solo episode because so much has HAPPENED for Afrolit and it wouldn't be possible with ALL! OF! YOU! I got into: How my community has sustained me through it ALL, from beginning to NOW How I was on a PANEL at the AFRICA CENTER and what that whole experience means to me (Hint, Hint more Live Events 2020) Feedback from Uyinene Episode + Reading your messag...

Hey Afrolit Fam, Thank you for tuning in!! This week I had the pleasure of having Umazi, a creative from Kenya, hey +254 gang! We talked about her journey from Kenya to the USA, The education process and why going back to our ancestral roots of spirituality and dance are so important, which she developed through her latest video project, called Mizani!  Couldn't finish the episode with out a...

Hey Afrolit Fam, Thank you for tuning in!! This week I had the pleasure of having Lontia Kangwa and Sibabalwe Mona, are both residents of South Africa and have lived there for an extensive period of time, for Siba her whole life. I wanted to bring us all together can understand politics in South Africa and discuss how women within the African Diaspora can support one another. We discussed topic th...

Hey Afrolit Fam, This week I had the pleasure of having Lontia Kangwa, She is a director, producer and  content creator, Originally from Zambia, She has now moved to the BIG Apple and you can catch her on the interwebs. We discussed topic that has been on our minds for a while: CONSENT -What consent means to us -The difference between verbal and non-verbal consent, does that exist?  -Alc...

Hey Afrolit Fam, This week I had the pleasure of hosting Ike Slimster, he is truly defines what it means to multi-hyphenate talent.  Originally from Nigeria, he uses his platform to highlight his painting, comedy, music, illustration and photography. You may have seen his skits on Sahara TV and hosting shows with Okay Africa.  We discussed current events happening in the African interweb...

Hey Afrolit Fam, This week I had the pleasure of hosting Yonnie, Founder of The KRAAL,  This episode was quite long overdue, but we knew it was important to have this conversation as we paid homage to  DJ Arafat, Coupe Decale legend and what he work has done for the vast genre and African music at large.  Join the conversation on social media: use the #AfrolitPod . Want my advice? W...