Glocal Citizens
Society & Culture
About
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
- 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 s…
- 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 showca…
- 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…
- 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 i…
- 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 laun…
- 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 d…
- 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 a…
- 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 ove…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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 Ci…
- 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…
- 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 2…
- 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,…
- 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 B…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 Midd…
- 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 L…
- 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 L…
- 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…
- 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 Ame…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 Mpi…
- 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 n…
- 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 wit…
- 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,…
- 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--Bro…
- 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 Ticke…
- 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…
- Episode 288: ENCORE Episode | Storytelling for Structural Change with Esther Armah
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week we continue to reflect on GlocalCitizens@5 and we’re flashing back to our Womens' Herstory series in March 202. Ghana-based, London-born international award-winning journalist, playwright, global public…
- Episode 287: The Fight for Equity in Teaching, Learning and Leading with Dr. Elaine Ruiz Lopez
Greetings Glocal Citizens! As the season of academic studies begins in many institutions across parts of the world, including New York City where I have spent many years working with charter schools to open their doors to children and fami…
- Episode 286: Reloading Life in Relocation and Retirement with Serene Lewis Lyles
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s interview was recorded while my guest and I were on the same time zone in Western Europe--she in Portugal and the UK for me. My guest, Serene Lewis Lyles spent most of her 30-year career making comple…
- Episode 285: Where Palm Wine Meets Music and Digital Transformation with Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we’re flashing back to June 2020 when we first met Emmanual Agbeko Gamor while he was based in South Africa attending Wits Business School . Now glocal in his native Ghana and South Afric…
- Episode 284: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 2
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have Part 1 of a two-part conversation centering a favorite topic of mine - education. The effectivenss of LinkedIn and it’s networkinng superpower facilitated our connection through c…
- Episode 283: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have Part 1 of a two-part conversation centering a favorite topic of mine - education. The effectivenss of LinkedIn and it’s networkinng superpower facilitated our connection through c…
- Episode 282: Leading Beyond Burnout with Hawa Kombian
Greetings Glocal Citizens! The spirit of summers past visits with us this week; it’s another Glocal Citizens @5flashback forward episode. In 2023, my guest this week, Hawa Kombian joined us for a two part conversation while she was based…
- Episode 281: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 2
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another gift from the Glocal Citizens community. In this two part conversation we meet Dr. Osei Alleyne. A joint PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pe…
- Episode 280: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another gift from the Glocal Citizens community. In this two part conversation we meet Dr. Osei Alleyne. A joint PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pe…
- Episode 279: On Being a Venture Catalyst with Tina Mbachu Obodozie
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s guest, Tina Mbachu Obodozie first joined me in conversation in 2021, thanks fo the #BWiD Connect Whatsapp group. Since our first chat, she has shifted to a bi-continental lifestyle, based mostly in Ni…
- Episode 278: Designing Love-centered Learning with Laureen Adams
Republic Day Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s guest is another Glocal Citizens connection. In spring 2024, Amma Gyampo reached out to me me about connecting me with a like mind in education. That was the beginning of ongoing conversa…
- Episode 277: Building Biotech Ecosystems for Africans with David Hutchful
Greetings Glocal Citizens! I met this week's guest last month as a fellow AfroTalks 2025 speaker. Our collective charge for the event was to present our ideas about the "how" of Pan-African progress from mindset, to skills development to m…
- Episode 276: On Visual Storytelling as a Language for Activism with Michael Soi
Greetings from East Africa Glocal Citizens! Well, kind of…this conversation was recorded last weekend from Nairobi on the eve of Father’s Day and a day after the opening of my guest, Michael Soi’s current group exhibition, The Print Press…
- Episode 275: Telling Omitted Truths with Lavinya Stennett
Greetings Glocal Citizens! We’re picking up more momentum toward African progress sharing the stories of dynamic diasporans making impact in the reparatory justice space. On the eve of Africa Day, I attended the premier screening of Omitte…
- Episode 274: Navigating Creativity with Wana Udobang
Greetings Glocal Citizens! As we hit the halfway mark on 2025 our treat this week is a thought-provoking conversation with Wana Udobang, a multifaceted writer, poet, performer, curator, and storyteller based in Lagos, Nigeria. I met Wana l…
- Episode 273: Pan-African Narratives: Storytelling for High Impact with Ivy Prosper
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week we have another flashback forward episode with experienced television host, reporter, producer, public speaker, published writer, and returning guest, Ivy Prosper . Since leaving her role working with t…
- Episode 272: Climate Reparations: A Critical Issue at the Intersection of Racial, Climate and Economic Justice with Hélène Himmer
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week Hélène Himmer, a French national with roots in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, now based in Portugal joins me in conversation about her current work at African Futures Lab (AfaLab) leading a project…
- Episode 271: Empowering Youth for Pan-African Progress with Hamzat Lawal
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s guest is a dynamic activist that I had the pleasure of working with while distributing a documentary (see other topics of interest) featuring the work that has become his origin story in the world of…
- Episode 270: Uncovering African Histories and Elevating African Stories with Yasmina Fagbemi
Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week returning guest, Yasmina Fagbemi , is flashing forward with us with an update on her latest projects and evolving glocal citizenship. Having emigrated to the United States in the 1990s, she began her ca…