Black Women Be Like: Recent Episodes
Black Women Be Like
A Pan-African podcast of black women on the continent and diaspora connecting and talking about womanism, feminism, our hustles, culture, issues and entertainment.
It's Black Women Be Like's Music Episode and we do an in conversation review of Kenyan singer VERESO's music. She talks to us about her journey to being an artist and her parents amazing support. She takes us through her songs, most of which she sings in Swahili, and explains the inspiration behind each one. Listen to our interview and snippets of her songs and visit her soundcloud (search VERESO) for more.
Poetra Asantewa of Ghana takes us through her new EP, Motherfuckitude. We play parts of the track and she explains her thinking in writing and performing each poem from No panties, Poetry Ain't Shit and Naked Listeners.
We talk to Ghanaian poet Poetra Asantewa about the relevance of poetry as a form of activism literature, she schools us on the difference between poetry and hip-hop and tells us how she used poetry to curate perceptions on feminism in Ghana.