Glocal Citizens host Florence Amerley Adu is CEO and founder of LEAP Transmedia Productions, which seeds and sows a vision for improving education and economic outcomes for Africans across the diaspora. Do you dream about “doing something” abroad? Then consider Glocal Citizens required listening in the due diligence, trusted advisor and inspiration department. In each episode, Florence visits with dynamic diasporans making local and global impact designing and applying their craft.
She explores how their passions have rooted them throughout their lives, while at the same time feeding the branches compelling them to keep reaching “beyond.” Florence and her guests discuss the personal and professional dimensions of glocal citizenship. And she rounds out the discussion with a deep dive into to the business of their business, covering the technical and operational components of the work of manifesting a new world.
Florence Amerley Adu has hosted 284 Episodes.
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Episode 285: Where Palm Wine Meets Music and Digital Transformation with Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor
August 19th, 2025 | 52 mins 37 secs
borderless mindset, digital professional, dynamic diasporans, emmanuel agbeko gamor, ghana, glocal citizens podcast, leap transmedia productions, lecturer, mtn ghana, music curator, palmwine dj, pan african progress, social entrepreneur, south africa, stellenbosch university
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Episode 284: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 2
August 12th, 2025 | 28 mins 7 secs
author, borderless mindset, consultant, dynamic diasporans, educator, entrepreneur, ghana, glocal citizens podcast, identity talk consulting, kwame sarfo-mensah, leap transmedia productions, us, zambia
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Episode 283: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 1
August 5th, 2025 | 47 mins 59 secs
author, borderless mindset, consultant, dynamic diasporans, educator, entrepreneur, ghana, glocal citizens podcast, identity talk consulting, kwame sarfo-mensah, leap transmedia productions, us, zambia
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Episode 282: Leading Beyond Burnout with Hawa Kombian
July 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
accra, b. hawa kombian, borderless mindset, burnout buster, canada, entrepreneur, gambaga, ghana, glocal citizens @5. dynamic diasporans, glocal citizens podcast, leadership strategist, leap transmedia productions, organizational advisor, pan-african progress, resilience coach
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Episode 281: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 2
July 22nd, 2025 | 46 mins 12 secs
anthropologist, assistant professor, borderless mindset, butta babees, canada, dynamic diasporans, ghana, glocal citizens podcast, leap transmedia productions, media studies and production, osei alleyne phd, pan-african progress, philadelphia, spoken word artist, temple university, trinidad & tobago, writer
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Episode 280: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 1
July 15th, 2025 | 47 mins 36 secs
anthropologist, assistant professor, borderless mindset, butta babees, canada, dynamic diasporans, ghana, glocal citizens podcast, leap transmedia productions, media studies and production, osei alleyne phd, pan-african progress, philadelphia, spoken word artist, temple university, trinidad & tobago, writer
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Episode 279: On Being a Venture Catalyst with Tina Mbachu Obodozie
July 8th, 2025 | 57 mins 37 secs
borderless mindset, cameroon, canada, catalyst venture, dymanic diasporans, entrepreneur, executive director, founder, glocal citizens @5, glocal citizens podcast, innovate africa foundation, leap transmedia productions, nigeria, pan-african progress, tina mbachu obodozie
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Episode 278: Designing Love-centered Learning with Laureen Adams
June 30th, 2025 | 49 mins 27 secs
accra, ascd ghana, author, borderless mindset, california, claremont graduate university, dynamic diasporans, founder, ghana, glocal citizens podcast, laureen adams phd, leap transmedia productions, pan-african progress, professor, republic day, research fellow, senior director, this teachable moment, tutu institute of education for liberation
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Episode 277: Building Biotech Ecosystems for Africans with David Hutchful
June 24th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
afrotalks 2025, ahaspora, borderless mindset, co-founder, cto, david hutchful, dynamic diasporans, ghana, glocal citizens podcast, leap transmedia productions, pan-africanism, serial entrepreneur, yc21, yemaachi biotech
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Episode 276: On Visual Storytelling as a Language for Activism with Michael Soi
June 17th, 2025 | 50 mins 28 secs
artist, borderless mindset, dynamic diasporans, glocal citizens podcast, kenya, leap transmedia productions, michael soi, nairobi, painter, satirist, the go down art centre, the print press, visual storyteller
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Episode 275: Telling Omitted Truths with Lavinya Stennett
June 10th, 2025 | 56 mins 12 secs
activist, borderless mindset, dynamic diasporans, filmmaker, glocal citizens podcast, jamaica, lavinya stennett, leap transmedia productions, omitted documentary, racial impact collective, reparatory justice, social entrpreneur, the black curriculum, uk, writer
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Episode 274: Navigating Creativity with Wana Udobang
June 3rd, 2025 | 59 mins 39 secs
borderless mindset, comfort food workshop, curator, dynamic diasporans, glocal citizens podcast, ikeja, leap transmedia productions, nigeria, performer, poet, storyteller, transcendence, wana udobang, writer
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Episode 273: Pan-African Narratives: Storytelling for High Impact with Ivy Prosper
May 27th, 2025 | 59 mins 21 secs
beyond the return, borderless mindset, canada, diaspora empowerment, farm radio international, ghana, glocal citizens podcast, glocalcitizens@5, host, ivy prosper, leap transmedia productions, nature answers podcast, pan-african progress, producer, prosper creative group, st catharine's, storyteller, tema, the ivy prosper show, writer
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Episode 272: Climate Reparations: A Critical Issue at the Intersection of Racial, Climate and Economic Justice with Hélène Himmer
May 20th, 2025 | 48 mins 38 secs
african futures lab, board chair, borderless mindset, climate reparations, dynamic diasporans, france, futur antérieur podcast, future perfect podcast, glocal citizens podcast, guadeloupe, hélène himmer, leap transmedia productions, pay no bribe animators sierra leone, policy and advocacy officer, portugal, reparative justice
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Episode 271: Empowering Youth for Pan-African Progress with Hamzat Lawal
May 13th, 2025 | 54 mins 2 secs
#followthemoney, activist, community organizer, connected development, executive director, glocal citizens podcast, hamzat hamzy! lawal, humanitarian, leap transmedia productions, malala fund, nigeria, not too young to run, pan-african, perspective documentary
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Episode 270: Uncovering African Histories and Elevating African Stories with Yasmina Fagbemi
May 6th, 2025 | 43 mins 53 secs
benin, editor, france, glocal citizens @5, glocal citizens podcast, leap transmedia productions, new york, nigeria, producer, publisher, the soul of africa film, tioleja media, yasmina fagbemi, yoruba