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Glocal Citizens
by Florence Amerley Adu
Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Amerley Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more jus
Episodes
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Episode 338: Creativity in Community with Rahman Ali Bugg Part 2
Greetings Glocal Citizens! We recorded this two-part conversation in the final days of my summer sojourn to the U.S. While it was a bit shorter than it has been in the recent past, this summer was another one for the books; made possible in large part by community, a consistent theme that I hope...
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Episode 337: Creativity in Community with Rahman Ali Bugg Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens! We recorded this two-part conversation in the final days of my summer sojourn to the U.S. While it was a bit shorter than it has been in the recent past, this summer was another one for the books; made possible in large part by community, a consistent theme that I hope...
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Episode 336: Globalizing Gender with Natasha Johnson Part 2
Greetings Glocal Citizens! In this two-part conversation, Natasha Johnson, shares her impressive experience in both the nonprofit and academic sectors. For over two decades, she has been an activist, educator, lawyer, and artist working primarily on intersectional gender justice. She served as…
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Episode 335: Globalizing Gender with Natasha Johnson Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens! In this two-part conversation, Natasha Johnson, shares her impressive experience in both the nonprofit and academic sectors. For over two decades, she has been an activist, educator, lawyer, and artist working primarily on intersectional gender justice. She served as…
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Episode 334: Encore Episode | Jumping and Pivoting into Beautiful Spaces with Jackie Edwards-Flowers
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s encore episode revisits a conversation with a fellow teammate and black woman in real estate, motivational speaker, 5-time Olympian representing the Bahamas, and #ChocolateCardinal, Jacqueline "Jackie" Edwards-Flowers. As an adjunct to our collaboration with...
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Episode 333: A Conversation at the Intersection of AI, storytelling, and digital culture with Eric Hamilton
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast storytelling takes center stage with Eric Hamilton, an award-winning AI filmmaker, technology visionary, and innovation leader with over 30 years of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence, storytelling, and digital culture.…
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Episode 332: Making a Way from Land to Sea as a Global Builder with Rob North
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we’re getting to know Robert “Rob” North, a U.S. Marine Veteran, All–American, lovable off-the-wall, skilled carpenter that has truly carved out a niche for himself. Born and raised on Chicago's South Side, Rob inviites us through getting to…
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Episode 331: On Investing in Indigenous Knowledge, Innovation, and Youth Empowerment with Amma Boakye-Danquah
Greetings Glocal Citizens! Back in 2013, a spark of inspiration gave light to an initiative that I went on to recruit a handful of friends to join in on the Flirt with the World’s Million Condom Giveaway at locations across Accra on World AIDS Day 2013. As part of our local press tour, I visited…
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Episode 330: On Being the Dreamer and the Dream with Mwamba-Salim Wilson
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we’re visiting points east, west, north and south with my guest who began his professional career as a graffiti artist on the streets of Houston, Texas in the late 1990s at the age of 16. By the 2000s, he had evolved into an acclaimed Primitive...
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Episode 329: Local in London with Eric Collins, Ayisha Osori, Leye Adenle, Elizabeth Solaru, Robertson Ahomka-Lindsay, Lavinya Stennett
Greetings Glocal Citizens! Hello from Londontown, where I find myself officially starting my summer antics for the 2026 season. And where I’ve found inspiration for this week's compilation episode. From an early episode with crime writer, Leye Adenle, to last year’s conversation with activist and...
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Episode 328: Digitizing a More Representative Democracy with Ramon Perez
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This past spring, a volunteer from the Digital Democracy Project reached out to me about its founder and this week’s guest, Ramon Perez. I’d never heard of the project and as a podcast about the many dimensions of citizenship, this was a very necessary conversation...
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Episode 327: Youth Advocacy Voice Amplifiers with Augusta Barlow
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week, as the summer heat inches up across the northern hemishphere, we’re hosting our youngest guest yet on the podcast. Augusta Barlow is a 14-year old change agent. Born and raised in Maryland in the United States, with family roots in Cape Verde, she believes in...
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Episode 326: Thoughts on Reclaiming Your Community with Majora Carter
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week in our continuing Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate and Green For All, and in 2017 opened the Boogie Down Grind — a hip-hop-themed coffee and craft beer spot, the first commercial "third space" in Hunts Point since the mid-1980s. Her 2022 book,...
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Episode 325: Encore Episode | Modeling a Life of Art and Experiences with Liz Campbell
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast, we re-presenting an episode that first posted nearly five years ago in the summer of 2021. At the time, my guest, Elizabeth Ann [Campbell Parks] Rollins-Moskowitz, Liz Campbell for short, was empty nesting and remote grandmothering while diving...
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Episode 324: Food for Thought with Mawuli Dzansi
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week, Chef Mawuli Dzansi allows us the honor of being his first podcast appearance. And we definitely count that as a win with this rising start in the Ghana food movement. Rooted deeply in his Ghanaian heritage, his passion for food grew as he explored flavors,...
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Episode 323: Encore Episode | Real Egypt with Samir Abbass
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week we have an encore episode inspired by the many pitch decks that I’ve been reviewing from companies based in Egypt as part of my Dream VC Investor Accelerator Fellowship. Back in 2020, while we were still in the thick of the pandemic, I connected with Samir...
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Episode 322: The Nubuke Foundation @ 20: A Conversation about Building and Sustaining an Arts Institution for Ghana to the World with Odile Tevie
Greetings Glocal Citizens! Exiting news…according to the Million Podcasts database platform We’re ranked #25 among change agent podcast thanks to listeners like you! In this week’s change agent conversation we’re visiting with Odile Tevie, co-founder and director of Nubuke Foundation, a visual…
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Episode 321: On Being a Benevolent Savage with Remi Adeleke
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week we commemorate Africa Day across the African Diaspora. Reflecting on the journeys of liberation that Black people have endured in trial and triumph, I am ever reminded that those that laid the groundwork will never in my heart, mind or acts have done so in…
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Episode 320: On the State of the Africa Diaspora with Dr. Ashley D. Milton
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast I’m back in Accra, back on the Continent, just in time to commemorate African Liberation Day--Africa Day 2026. Last year around this time, my guest and I were preparing for our respective sessions at AfroTalks 2025 @ University of Ghana-Legon...
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Episode 319: Embracing Multiple Talents as Activism with Bryonn Bain
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast it’s an NYU affair with a side of Columbia University, Harvard University and UCLA. I first met my guest as fellow New York University students/alumni in the late 1990’s, at a time when slam poetry was beginning to reaching global audiences with...
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Episode 318: Building Bridges Between Capital Investment and Culture with Nioki Doggett
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another installment of Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate collaboration--Borderless Building. Throughout the year, we’re hosting conversations with BWRE members showcasing the personal and professional journeys of Black women…
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Episode 317: Impact-Driven Fintech Solutions with Jemima Lewis
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s conversation with Adedayo Jemima Lewis, Senior VP Commercial & Growth at Fincra, offers great insights into process and realities of realizing your passion in a new local. From applying and receiving a Global Talent Visa to sharpening her impact-driven…
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Episode 316: Building Community Assets Grounded in Love with Bakajika Tshinanga
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast community builidng is a central theme. For twenty years, my guest, Bakajika Tshinanga, has operated at the exact intersection where culture generates economic value. His journey started in 2004, when he founded a student-led program at the...
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Episode 315: Preserving our Sweet Roots and our Archiving Imperative with Maame Adjei
Greetings Glocal Citizens! I’m sure many of you remember the groundbreaking web series An African City. We’ve even hosted a panel featuring creator of the series Nicole Amarteifio in our writing as activism series. My guest this week launched her creative career as a cast member on the series and...
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Episode 314: Encore Episode | Going with Grace with Alua Arthur
Heartfelt Greetings, Glocal Citizens. This week’s encore episode is a salve for my heavy heart. I’m resharing it as a reminder of life’s certainties; because it reflects some of the roots experiences that my guest, Global Ghanaian, death doula and author of Briefly Perfectly Human, Alua Arthur…
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Episode 313: Reclaiming Wellness with Nana Amoako-Anin
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This year our Women’s Herstory Month series has taken us for the first time to Botswana and Norway; we stopped in the UK, picked up flavors from Nigeria, Sudan, Zambia, Netherlands, Philippines, Belgium, Brazil and South Africa; went on a future forward mission in…
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Episode 312: World Making Art, Science and Practice with San’aa Njeeri
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week our Women’s Herstory Month series takes us back to Kenya--to a place called Area Nyaga. Our guide is futurist, artist, and creative synthesist reimagining African futures, San’aa Njeeri. Distilling over a decade of global interdisciplinary practice, she...
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Episode 311: Ela-vating the Entrepreneurship Mindset with Sarah Osman
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week in our continuing Women’s Herstory Month series, we’re in another new country--from southern Africa last week we’re landing in Scandinavia on our first trip to Norway via Sudan, Zambia, The Philippines, Netherlands, Ghana and South Africa--all places my guest...
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Episode 310: From Diamonds in the Rough to Polished Gems of Culture with Caroline Modise
Greetings Glocal Citizens! Next up in our Women’s Herstories Month series is our first trip to Botswana. I met this week’s guest, a native Motswana and globe trotter--Caroline Modise, in Accra earlier this year representing in her role as the Sustainability Engagements Manager at De Beers Group.…
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Episode 309: Creating Spaces for Black Women in Real Estate with Hanna Afolabi
Women’s Herstory Month Greetings Glocal Citizens! If it’s March then it’s that time again for a month of conversations centering women’s stories and experiences. This week, we’re also kicking off the series with the launch of our Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate...
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Episode 308: Mobilizing Innovation Infrastructure in Haiti and Beyond with Marc Alain Boucicault
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week, though Black History Month in the Americas is winding down, here on the podcast we’re consistently aiming to learn, grow and inspire our sustained consciouness around #PanAfricanProgress and we’re deep diving with a son of the country that is at the…
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Episode 307: Around the Globe and Back Home Again with Nana Asomani-Poku
Greetings Glocal Citizens! I met this week’s guest, Nana Asomani-Poku in Jamestown, Accra during a walking tour through featuring stories told in images by Glocal Citizen, James Barnor. It was during the James Barnor @95 celebration in 2024. Nana, a UK-born Ghanaian legal professional…
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Episode 306: Digital Asset Evolution in Africa with Mimi Kufuor
Greetings Glocal Citizens! My guest this week is building the financial infrastructure that Africa deserves. As Chief Operating Officer of KoinKoin and CEO + Country Manager of KoinKoin Ghana Ltd, a leading African digital asset exchange, Mimi Kufuor is creating digital assets solutions that work...
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Episode 305: How to Build Emergency Response Infrastructure in Africa with Folake Owodunni
Greetings Glocal Citizens! For those listeners in North America, February is Black History Month. Week in and week out on this podcast, we’re all about how our Black present syncs with our history and all things forward for people of the Black diaspora worldwide. This week’s conversation zooms in...
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Episode 304: When Lineage Meets Craft and Other Notes on Community with Tai Allen Part 2
This week the US commemorates the MLK Day holiday - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. He would have been 97. The third Monday of January has stood as the official holiday for 40 years, and no matter what the current US administration attempts at erasure, the Black American Diaspora will…
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Episode 303: When Lineage Meets Craft and Other Notes on Community with Tai Allen Part 1
This week the US commemorates the MLK Day holiday - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. He would have been 97. The third Monday of January has stood as the official holiday for 40 years, and no matter what the current US administration attempts at erasure, the Black American Diaspora will…
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Episode 302: Infrastructure, Policy and the AI of Things in Africa with Oswald Osaretin Guobadia
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast, I was thrilled to have been able to take advantage of the fact that this week’s guest and I were on the same timezone because he’s literally moving and shaking across Africa and the Middle East full time. Since he last joined us in early 2020,...
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Episode 301: Pubic Interest Media and Other Public Goods with Makmid Kamara Part 2
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s conversation is a milestone coming to you in two parts. We're 300+1! And my guest is a return voice with serious currency in the public service media and reparatory justice movements. Born in Sierra Leone, Makmid Kamara is a human rights leader, reparatory...
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Episode 300: Pubic Interest Media and Other Public Goods with Makmid Kamara Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s conversation is a milestone coming to you in two parts. We're 300+1! And my guest is a return voice with serious currency in the public service media and reparatory justice movements. Born in Sierra Leone, Makmid Kamara is a human rights leader, reparatory...
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Episode 299: Creating Ecosystems at the Intersection of Artistry and Technology with Derrick Ashong
Season’s Greetings Glocal Citizens! I met this week’s guest, Derrick N. Ashong, earlier this year in Nairobi at the Charter Cities Institute, 2025 New Cities Summit. At the summit, we connected as storytellers that share Ghanaian heritage and formative years spent in Brooklyn, New York. In a…
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Episode 298: Where HIStory ends and People Power Begins with Anna Malaika Tubbs
Greetings Glocal Citizens! The final stretch of 2025 is upon us and along with winding down our year-long Glocal Citizens @5 commemoration, this flashback forward episode is right on time for many reasons. In her new book, Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us, my returning guest,...
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Episode 297: On Congo Love and Pan-African Feminism with Patricia Lokwa Servant Part 2
Greetings Glocal Citizens! I met this week’s guest Patricia Lokwa Servant last November in Accra at a Forge: Harnessing Creative Arts for Reparatory Justice. The convening turned out to be a mini Glocal Citizens summit for us Accra-based peeps lead by Makmid Kamara in his new role leading Reform...
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Episode 296: On Congo Love and Pan-African Feminism with Patricia Lokwa Servant Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens! I met this week’s guest Patricia Lokwa Servant last November in Accra at a Forge: Harnessing Creative Arts for Reparatory Justice. The convening turned out to be a mini Glocal Citizens summit for us Accra-based peeps lead by Makmid Kamara in his new role leading Reform...
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Episode 295: On Relocations and Reflections with Baze Mpinja
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast returning guest, Baze Mpinja takes us nearly five years to the date on a flashback forward journey to her new now as a podcaster and Phoenician. Her new podcast, Reflections with Baze Mpinja comes at a time when she’s now calling one of her...
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Episode 294: The Business of Land Matters: Food Systems, Land Stewardship and Community with Luther Lawoyin, Nana Opoku Ageyman-Prempeh, Wellington Baiden and Asmeret Berhe-Lumax
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast as I’m easing back into the flow of life in Accra after a whirlwind trip across the US via London. My experiences in the US inlcluded much needed R&R in Hawaii, where I met some amazing new connections--stay tuned for those conversations early...
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Episode 293: The Making of a Global Fusionist with Aretha Amma Sarfo-Kantanka
Greetings Glocal Citizens! Last week, Ghana lost another living legend, the first lady of the 4th Republic, Madam Nana Konadu Ageyman Rawlings. As we mourn this loss, I can’t help but to take note of how 2025 has been a year punctuated with transitions of many of Ghana’s cultural icons as well as...
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Episode 292: Encore Episode | Soul Food and Black Smoke Storytelling with Adrian Miller
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s encore episode is a timely flashbackconnection with my guest, the Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller. Adrian and I went to primary and secondary school in the same school district—Denver Public Schools, and we also both attended Stanford University. I selected...
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Episode 291: Pan-Africanism for the Win with Martin Kimani
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s conversation dovetails themes that have become very present in my perspectives in the past year. Our conversation takes place in one of my locals, which happens to be a new-ish local for my guest--Brooklyn, New York. My guest, Ambassador Martin Kimani is a...
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Episode 290: Design Thinking in Teaching and Learning with Kalimah Fergus Ayele
Greetings Glocal Citizens! We’re talking about the business of teaching and learning from a design thinking perspective with my guest, fellow Stanford University alum, visionary educational leader and the founder and CEO of Roundtrip Ticket Home, an organization dedicated to helping educators...
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Episode 289: When Activism Writes the Story with Myra Vahighene
Greetings Glocal Citizens! In case you missed us last week there’s good reason. My glocal speak for the week was #UNGA80. The streets and sounds of NYC all pointed to the United Nations General Assembly and myriad sideline events. My week was about all thing #PanAfricanProgress and I look forward...
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Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Amerley Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more jus
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