Kilele Africa Hummingbird Vibes: Recent Episodes
Mwaambi G Mbûûi
This project draws inspiration from the life story, and stellar work of Professor Wangari Maathai, the late Kenyan environmentalist, feminist, and social justice activist; she was the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. As an Experiential Learning Fellowship ’20 recipient, my podcast series focuses on urging us each to be an agent of positive change—a “Hummingbird”—wherever we are; with whatever unique resources we are endowed with. Basically, this is a clarion call for a justice-oriented change-agency, across Africa and globally. The time to ACT is Now!
Welcome and enjoy this warmly passionate and equally enlightening conversation between Yours truly and my dear friend, Rev. Steven G. This episode was recorded last weekend at his beautiful North Hollywood home, during my brief/weekend Getaway to warm albeit beautiful LA.
The convo spans a broad array of subject areas, including a candid personal look at racial dynamics in the US, religion and culture, folk music vis-a-vis colonial imposition/s, as well as concerns around the status of the African vs. African American sibling-ness, among others.
Karibu/welcome and enjoy the listen!
Episode #4 presents an opportunity for self-appraisal, with the overarching question: So what's my part in this? Rather, how can I best espouse and live out a Hummingbird disposition, in the most practical and realistic manner—right where I am planted—in the Now? Effectively, therefore, it is an invite to boldly engage in both bold yet compassionate in-ward and out-ward-looking self-assessment, towards a more proactive, action-oriented framework/s that lends itself to greater change-agent reflection on the one hand, and concerted praxis on the other.
Karibu sana/warmest welcome, and have a Listen!
Episode #3 highlights some of the valiant lives and labors of "contemporary" prophetic figures—from Jesus to those both living and recently departed—who sought to be positive change-agents within their settings at all costs, sometimes paying the ultimate price—even their very lives. We might as well so aptly view them as the patron saints of the Hummingbird disposition.
Have a listen!
In this Episode #2, we explore some prophetic models of the Hummingbird disposition, particularly as relayed in the text of Sacred canon/s—predominantly in the Bible, as well as the Qur'an—in the light of today's challenges, coupled with a reminder of the urgent need for transformative change-agency.
Karibu/Welcome!
MwaambiGM
PS: Please feel free to reach out to the author with any feedback, questions, suggestions, concerns, etc: Imwonyombui71@gmail.com
This opening episode is an interrogation of the 3 "Signs of our Times" that beckon us to urgent change-agent action, each as a diligent, proactive and compassionate "Hummingbird"--wherever we are, however we can, and with whatever we have. Karibu/most welcome, and lets Explore together!