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Coming · Jun14Streamed · 7pm ET

On naming a child across worlds.

A conversation with a Nigerian poet, an Akan grandmother, and a midwife in Atlanta

Why names matter. What we lose when we let them be shortened, anglicised, or forgotten. How to give a child a name that will hold them, and how to teach the world to say it correctly.

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Coming · Jul19Streamed · 7pm ET

The kitchen as cultural keeper.

A conversation with a Nigerian-American chef and a Caribbean food historian

What survives in a recipe. What gets adapted. What gets lost. A live conversation about the foods that carry our memory, and the kitchens we are building for our children.

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Coming · Aug23Streamed · 7pm ET

Raising whole children in two worlds.

A conversation between three diaspora mothers, Lagos to London, Accra to Atlanta, Addis to Toronto

The school conversations. The grandparent visits. The language pressure. The teasing. The pride. An honest hour with mothers in the middle of the work, sharing what is actually working.

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Coming · Sep20Streamed · 7pm ET

The thread that was cut, and the thread we are weaving.

A conversation with a Black American historian and a Nigerian elder on shared inheritance

Where the African and African American diaspora stories meet, where they diverge, and what we are building together for the children who carry both.

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A photograph of a gathering, a courtyard-light interior, a speaker mid-conversation. To be uploaded.

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