The Giving Black Podcast
The Giving Black Podcast promotes Black philanthropy and spotlights generosity in all its forms in the global Black community.
Listen to interviews that honour the culture and tradition of giving among Black people from the African continent, to the Caribbean, Europe, the Americas and across the globe.
I am your host, Olumide Akerewusi. Here's a bit about me: I am Founder and CEO of agentsC Inc., an international company delivering fundraising, philanthropy, and social change solutions to organizations across the world. I've spent 30 years working with major philanthropists, corporations, and grant-making foundations as well as charities to grow their impact. I am also a Black philanthropist.
I hope you enjoy this podcast, which will serve as an archive of wonderful and inspiring stories about Black generosity.
You can learn more about Giving Black by visiting our website at: www.givingblack.ca.
Philanthropy Is The Heartbeat Of The World!
The Giving Black Podcast
The Black Philanthropy Month Series - Sankofa: Remember, Reclaim, Rise. Dr. Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome
Hello Giving Black Family!
When I learned about the work of Dr. Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome—Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, New York, and Co-Founder of Black Philanthropy Month—I knew we had to speak!
Dr. Okome, a fellow Nigerian, is both an academic and a powerful advocate for pan-Africanism. In this episode of The Giving Black Podcast, she and I explore the importance of a united global call to action around Black philanthropy in its many forms, traditions, and practices.
She highlights the significance and similarity of traditional acts of philanthropy in Black communities around the world: tithing to religious institutions, the history of rent parties that supported community members unable to pay rent, and the breadth of radical generosity, Ajo and SuSu, Pardner, a variety of rotational credit systems in Black communities—much of which goes unnoticed and unrecorded.
Giving Black family, it’s not often we are blessed with such deep academic insight into Black philanthropy. This is a rich, contextual, and flavourful conversation about what philanthropy looks like from a continental, multi-generational, diasporic, and a contemporary African migratory perspective—all of which combine into a wonderful recognition of the unifying power of Sankofa: a principle that binds all Black people together despite the distance of time and space.
Dr. Okome is, in one word, amazing. I am proud to have hosted her—not only did I learn new dimensions of Black philanthropy, but I also gained a new friend and elder in this important movement of generostiy.
You can connect with Dr. Okome via LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mojubaolu
Philanthropy Is The Heartbeat Of The World!
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