Episode 288

ENCORE Episode | Storytelling for Structural Change with Esther Armah

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September 16th, 2025

59 mins 13 secs

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About this Episode

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week we continure to reflect on GlocalCitizens@5 and we’re flashing back to our Womens' Herstory series in March 2021. Ghana-based, London-born international award-winning journalist, a playwright, a global public speaker Esther Armah – a self-described ‘global black chick’ – has lived, worked, loved, created across three cities in three countries on three continents – London, New York, and Accra. She is the Executive Director of the Esther Armah Institute of Emotional Justice and she leads a global team in Ghana, Chicago and London. Her most applauded work, which she describes as “more of a purpose than a profession” is centred on the concept of EMOTIONAL JUSTICE.

Pubilshed in 2022, her groundbreaking book Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing argues that the crucial missing piece to racial healing and sustainable equity is emotional justice—a new racial healing language to help us do our emotional work. She continues to build on this apparatus with complementary storytelling expressed via her breadth of creative media expertise. As part of EAIEJ’s third annual September event HEALING HARM | HEEDING HISTORY, themed WELLNESS in the face of WARFARE she’ll be hosting a screening and dialogue for her short film '...goodbye to the EMOTIONAL MAMMY' later this week.
Saturday, 20th September @ 6pm

African Film Society
East Legon, ACCRA
Tickets are SOLD OUT but be sure to follow and sign up for a screening near you!

Where to find Esther?
www.theaiej.com
On [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherarmah/
On Facebook
On Instagram
On YouTube

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Million Women March
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Steve Beko
Oliver Tambo
Women in the ANC
Truth and Reconciliation Commission South Africa
New Heritage Theatre Group
Danceworks London
www.iamadinkra.com
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