Black Earth Podcast

Hey Black Earth fam, As we come to the end of Season 4, I feel deep gratitude. Over the past six months, we’ve shared conversations with inspiring storytellers, policy-makers, scientists, and community builders creating futures that nourish both people and mother Earth. In uncertain and often overwhelming times, we’ve come together to remember and learn that the worlds we dream of are not only pos...

Dans cet épisode émouvant de Black Earth, notre hôte, Marion, reçoit Mireille Kayijamahe, fondatrice de Terra Mucho. Terra Mucho est un podcast et une plateforme qui met en avant le leadership des femmes africaines dans la région du bassin du Congo à travers un partage de témoignages, de mentorat et de bien-être. Mireille travaille dans l'une des régions les plus riches en biodiversité de la planè...

In this moving episode of Black Earth, our host, Marion, is joined by Mireille Kayijamahe, founder of Terra Mucho. Terra Mucho is a podcast and platform uplifting African women’s leadership across the Congo Basin through storytelling, mentoring and well-being. Mireille works in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, a place too often reduced to extremes in the news. Parts of this region, inc...

In this deeply moving episode, Marion meets diaspora archaeologist, Dr. Alicia Odewale, to explore an extraordinary idea: trees remember us. Alicia is the creator of the Black Heritage Trees Project, a groundbreaking effort to map the trees who have become witnesses and companions to Black heritage, belonging and joy around the world.  Together, Marion and Alicia explore: 🌳 What makes a tree a Bl...

Nearly 500 years ago, African survivors of the transatlantic slave trade built communities of refuge and resistance in Brazil and across Latin America.  Today, those same lands, known as quilombos, are also some of the most biodiverse places on Earth, thanks to generations of care and knowledge by quilombola communities. In this special Black Earth episode, our host, Marion, meets with Fran Paula,...

As the next climate conference (COP30) approaches, we turn to one of the most urgent and overlooked climate stories of our time: extreme heat. Eugenia Kargbo, Africa’s first Chief Heat Officer, joins our host, Marion Osieyo, to explore how communities, nature, and social inequality are reshaping how we live and adapt in a warming world.  From Freetown, Sierra Leone to the global stage, Eugenia sha...

For thousands of years, humans have had a deep relationship with seeds. Seeds are our ancestors. They carry life, culture and memory. But today, the situation is drastically changing. Across Africa and the world, the corporate capture of agriculture is threatening native seeds and the communities who have nurtured them for generations. In this inspiring and enlightening episode of Black Earth Podc...

What does it take to create access and opportunity for more diverse founders in the climate and sustainability space? In this episode of the Black Earth Podcast, Marion speaks with Mandy Nyarko MBE, a leading climate and sustainability investor, about the power of entrepreneurship to drive solutions for a changing world. Together they explore:  🌱 What climate entrepreneurship really means  👩🏾‍...

Who gets to create the future?  In this inspiring episode of Black Earth, Marion Atieno Osieyo sits down with Tracee Worley, founder of Radical Futures, to discover how communities, especially Black women, are using radical imagination and care to reimagine climate futures and environmental justice. ✨ In this episode, we explore: 🌍 Why futures thinking matters for Black-led climate and environme...

Welcome back to Black Earth with me, Marion Atieno Osieyo. In each episode, I speak with pioneering Black women from around the world who are re-imagining our relationship with Earth and each other. This is the first episode of our new season, Season 4, and you can watch the video version on our new YouTube channel here!!  Today, I meet Agnes Agyepong, founder of Global Child and Maternal Health,...

Thank you so much for tuning into Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast. In this season, we have been meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In this season finale, Black Earth team, Marion and Anesu, reflect on their changing relationships with nature as well their key take-aways from Season 3. We also discuss what is to come for Black Earth Podcast. Although Seas...

‘How do we practice this revolution in a way that embodies the best of what we have as humans and the best of what we can observe in other species?’ - Marion In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature.  Today we meet Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs from North Carolina, United States. Alexis is a queer black feminist, love evang...

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In this episode, we meet Dr. Mfoniso Antia who is a scientist and Programme Manager at the Health of Mother Earth Foundation in Nigeria. Health of Mother Earth Foundation is a pioneering ecological think tank advocating for environmental justice and food sovereignty in Nigeria...

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In this episode, we meet the amazing Etta Madete. Etta is an architect, advocate and real estate developer from Kenya. As the founder of Zima Homes, her passion and life’s work is building affordable, inclusive and sustainable housing for communities who need it the most.  In o...

Welcome to Black Earth Podcast! Today, we have a special treat for you! In Season 3, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In last week's episode, we met Bryony Ella. Bryony is an inspiring artist-researcher who creates immersive and engaging public artworks that help us reimagine our relationship with nature. This episode is taken from her project,...

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In today’s episode, we meet Bryony Ella. Bryony is an inspiring artist-researcher who creates immersive and engaging public artworks that help us reimagine our relationship with nature.  In this episode, Bryony talks to us about her incredible artistic practice and how an emerg...

Today is World Biodiversity Day!! It's a day for us to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on our beautiful planet. Biodiversity is all about the variety and interconnectedness of life on Earth, from the soil beneath our feet to the birds above and everything in between. Instead of a regular Black Earth episode, we want you to spend one hour this week listening to nature. Have a listen to t...

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women who are creating innovations inspired by nature. In this episode, we meet Dr Melissa Sikosana. She is a biomaterials scientist who is passionate about connecting art, science and design to solve society’s problems. Dr Melissa speaks with us about an exciting discipline called biomimicry. Biomimicry is the art and science of l...

In Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast, we are meeting visionary black women creating innovations inspired by nature. In this episode we meet Tinuke Chineme. Tinuke is an inspiring scientist and innovator based in Calgary, Canada.  She is working with black soldier flies and African Indigenous Female Entrepreneurs to develop a new economic model that transforms organic waste into wealth. Join us for t...

Hello Black Earth fam! We are so excited to be back for Season 3 of Black Earth Podcast!! The theme for this season is 'Innovation Inspired by Nature'. Join us for this juicy and world changing season as we meet incredible black women inventors, scientists and artists who are building new worlds with the genius of mama nature. Check out the trailer to find out more. Make sure to subscribe wherever...

Season 2 is complete! In this episode, the Black Earth team, Marion and Anesu, reflect on their highlights and lessons from Season 2. We reflect on how our relationships with nature are evolving, the importance of radical imagination and re-defining community. We also discuss what active hope means in a world undergoing immense change and crises. Thank you for being part of our amazing listener co...

In our final conversation of Season 2, Environmentalism Reimagined, we meet with Atwooki, creator of Yuniya. Named after her grandmother, Yuniya is a storytelling platform using African mythology to educate children, parents and caregivers about climate change and Earth care. Join us in this inspirational conversation as we explore how African mythology and storytelling is making climate action an...

Valerie Novack is an incredible policy researcher working at the intersections of disability justice, emergency management response and inclusive city design. In today’s episode, we dive deep into disability justice and the connections with Earth care. We explore some core elements of disability justice including rest, sustainability, the ability to learn and interdependence and why they are key t...

Wanjiku 'Wawa' Gatheru is the pioneering Executive Director and Founder of Black Girl Environmentalist. Black Girl Environmentalist is a U.S. organisation dedicated to addressing the leadership pathway and retention issue in the climate movement for Black girls, women and gender-expansive people in the United States. In this inspiring episode, we explore the mission and vision of Black Girl Enviro...

Evie is a writer, a domestic abuse survivor and specialist, and the founder of Peaks of Colour. Peaks of Colour is a nature-for-healing community group by and for people of colour in England. In this powerful episode, Evie and I reflect on their experiences as a domestic abuse survivor and specialist and their journey of healing through reconnecting with nature. We explore abolitionist visions for...