• Where We’re Headed

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Where We’re Headed

By: Legacy
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  • Join host Rogiérs in this insightful analysis of Black history, faith traditions, non-belief and the ways those dynamics play on Black communities in the United States and abroad. This podcast uses an Africana studies framework to examine and celebrate the history of religious dissent in the African diaspora and serves as the companion to the ”LEGACY series” with support from the American Humanist Association.
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  • Africa Tour: Liberia, "Nollywood" & Diaspora Pentecostalism

    Africa Tour: Liberia, "Nollywood" & Diaspora Pentecostalism
    Jan 20 2025
    Today, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s holiday we break hiatus and continue the "Abroad Series" stopping in Brasil and a tour of Africa. We delve into entertainment, the shifting sands of Catholicism to Evangelical Christianity and Pentecostalism, and how they are changing the faces and legacies of colonialism on the continent. Criss-crossing the globe, we begin with Nollywood (Nigeria), jet to Brasil and return to Africa on a world tour of religion(s), changing culture(s) and bold, modern-day dissent. Continuing our journey of the African Diaspora, Episode 23 showcases the changing tides of religious stories through industry, empire, colonialism and modern-day trends which shape societies and personally impact millions of people, indigenous faiths, minorities and marginalized people. _____ (Ep. 23) Show Notes Host: Rogiérs Written by: Rogiérs Narration: Rogiérs Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson Music Licensing: Storyblocks, Fibby Music (ASCAP) Additional Music: "Ocean of Love" V. Richardson (ASCAP)/L. Johnson (BMI), Richard Bona - Bassist/Composer, @Robarousal (Pianist, IG), @Naijagospel (Hymn-Choir, IG), "Clarinet Soufleé" - Paquito D'Rivera (Brasilian Rhythms), The 1997 Batch”, J Dilla & Vintage Vibez Music Group Resources & Mentions Abbot Subbah, Liberian Elder Afro Queer Podcast (Season 4, Ep. 4 "Shivanah's Story") The Condition of Nonbelievers in Africa. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. "Faith Under Fire" Documentary, BBC - Africa Eye Ghana's Anti-LGBTQ Bill/African LGBTQ Advocate, Joy News Humanist Action Ghana, Non-Profit Organization (Ghana) Elle Hardy, "Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World" (2022) Harrison Mumia, Atheists in Kenya Liberia 1820-1847: "From Colony to Republic", Library of Congress Pastor Walter Magaya, (Zimbabwe) via Hopewell Chin’ono Pastor Daniel Mgogo Sarah Peace, Nollywood on the Pulpit: Performance and Magic in Pentecostalism (2020) Soldiers of Jesus: Armed Pentecostals Target Brazil's Religious Minorities - The Washington Post, (2019) _____________________________ For Contact, Inquiry, Voicemail & Feedback: E: WWHPodcasting@gmail.com Blue Sky 🦋 and Twitter @WWHPodcasting _____________________________ Additional Content: Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA) Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup. Support WWH Podcast on Patreon and follow us on 🦋 BlueSky and Twitter! Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association. (c) 2025 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
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    51 mins
  • Ivory Coast Abroad: Mohamed Cisse & Islam

    Ivory Coast Abroad: Mohamed Cisse & Islam
    Aug 11 2023

    This week we continue our abroad series-opening with special insights from co-host Verdell Wright on the importance of centering Black narratives of religious freedom and experience. We briefly visit the plight of despised Nigerian atheist/activist Mubarak Bala who in-secret was unjustly sequestered in Nigeria for nearly a year only to be sentenced to 24 years for the invisible crime of blaspheming Allah by clerics in northern Islamic Nigeria.

    Finally we center the spotlight in an interview with activist speaker, Mohmmed Cisse -an expat born and raised in Ivory Coast, West Africa. Cisse recounts his upbringing in a cultural milieu heavily controlled by religious affiliations, poor mental heath education, patriarchy and misogyny, and HIV death and stigmatization. However, all is not lost-Cisse discusses his transformative work with The Clergy Project and shares his stories of the bright light of hope for his family and community abroad.

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    (Ep. 22)

    Show Notes

    Host: Rogiérs

    Co-Host: Verdell Wright

    Written by: Rogiérs

    Narration: Rogiérs

    Interview: Mohmmed Cisse

    Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC

    Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC

    Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson

    Music Licensing: Storyblocks

    Additional Music: David “Preach” Balfour (Piano),

    Ismael (Gaddafi Mosque-Kampala, Uganda/Call to Prayer), The 1997 Batch”, J Dilla & Vintage Vibez Music Group

    Resources & Mentions

    Verdell Wright (TikTok @VeeAyeDubz)

    TCP, The Clergy Project

    “Nigeria: Atheist Activist Mubarak Bala sentenced to 24 years in blasphemy case” (Africa News)

    “The Cost of Being an Atheist” BBC Africa Documentary

    BBC Kaduna Book Festival 2018-Humanism in Nigeria with Leo Igwe

    _____________________________

    For Contact, Inquiry, Voicemail & Feedback:

    E: WWHPodcasting@gmail.com

    Twitter: @WWHPodcasting

    _____________________________

    Additional Content:

    Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)

    Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.

    Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!

    Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.

    (c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net

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    47 mins
  • Religion Abroad: The Mission Field

    Religion Abroad: The Mission Field
    Mar 17 2023

    Admittedly one of our more atheist-y episodes, today we offer the second installment of our “Abroad Series”. This show takes a deep-dive, critical look into the phenomenon of missionary work-mostly of the Christian/Evangelical variety. From New York to Brasil, West Africa to Uganda, India to the Caribbean and back, we scrutinize the mission field; its presumptions of good faith and nobility and a religious ideology too easily associated with virtue, cultural diversity and community uplift.

    Our story is told in three parts: A personal narrative; a trenchant critique on a missionary ripped from the headlines and a culminating, feature interview with Dr. Adria Armbister. She is a distinguished professional in International Development, hails from a denomination well-known for its reputation abroad and both member and ally of the BSC-DC organization.

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    (Ep. 21)

    Show Notes

    Host: Rogiérs

    Written by: Rogiérs

    Narration: Rogiérs, Drai Salmon

    Contributing Writer: Dan Savage for Savage Lovecast

    Interviewer: Dr. Adria Armbister

    Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC

    Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC

    Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson

    Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Storyblocks

    Additional Music: "theShedding" (Courtesy of Fibby Music Group, LLC), Stanley and the “12 Sleepless Nights”, “The 1997 Batch”, J Dilla & Vintage Vibez Music Group, “God Great God”, Kurt Karr (Zomba Gospel, LLC)

    Resources & Mentions

    Leonard Ostrander, The Clergy Project

    “Call Me Kuchu” (Documentary)

    “We Had the Land, They had the Bible” (Monique White)

    “Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World” (Elle Hardy)

    Missionary's harrowing last diary entries before he was killed by Sentinelese tribe (Mirror Magazine)

    Ama Ata Aidoo, Afrogoats

    _____________________________

    For Contact, Inquiry, Voicemail & Feedback:

    E: WWHPodcasting@gmail.com

    Twitter: @WWHPodcasting

    _____________________________

    Additional Content:

    Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)

    Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.

    Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!

    Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.

    (c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net

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    1 hr and 5 mins

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