Episode 322: The Nubuke Foundation @ 20: A Conversation about Building and Sustaining an Arts Institution for Ghana to the World with Odile Tevie

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:00:00 -0400

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

Exiting news…according to the Million Podcasts database platform We’re ranked #25 among change agent podcast thanks to listeners like you!

In this week’s change agent conversation we’re visiting with Odile Tevie, co-founder and director of Nubuke Foundation, a visual arts and cultural institution, based in Accra and Wa in Ghana.

In the early 2000’s she set up and ran the Black Swan gallery in London introducing Ghanaian, Togolese and Nigerian artists into the diaspora. Under her vision and drive, Nubuke Foundation, set up in 2006, has become an internationally acknowledged arts institution whose robust and engaging programming calendar has been seminal in supporting the career of many of the mid-career Ghanaian artists and promising ones like Na Chainkua Reindorf, Isaac Opoku and Gideon Appah.

Nubuke Foundation has become a creative community hub in the city of Accra, where informal learning programmes, talks, exhibitions, drama, spoken word etc. In Wa, the Foundation focuses on promoting strip weaving artisans and textile and fibre-based arts practice.

As you'll hear our surround sound is the long story of the raining season in Ghan and it was well worth the rainy commute to have this conversatio with Odile.

Where to find Odile?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook

What’s Odile reading?
African Women & Feminism by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
The 28th February House by Demi Letsa
The Longest Week by Nick Page

Other topics of interest:
A bit about Tesano in Accra
The Wa Upper West Region, Ghana
Ghana A Portrait
About the University of Applied Arts Vienna
More about Ghana's Centers for National Culture
About Sensibilités intellectuelles africaines in The Conversation
What is the Myriad Alliance?

Special Guest: Odile Tevie.

Episode 139: Connecting Communities with Asmeret Berhe-Lumax

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week is all about the "local" in glocal. I'm hosting longtime friend, neighbor and soon to be public official, Asmeret Berhe-Lumax. Asmeret was born in Asmara, Eritrea, raised in Stockholm, Sweden and now calls Brooklyn, New York home. She is a dynamic team player with extensive domestic and international experience, she is a hands-on leader in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings developing and executing strategic plans encompassing client goals and translating them into an efficient and profitable production structure. She channels these skills as founder of the One Love Community Fridge project, a community-based response to the long lines at food banks that began during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The project is a purpose-driven initiative that supports community fridges, local businesses and framers by addressing immediate hunger needs, minimizing food waste and ensuring access to healthy, fresh foods. Asmeret is also co-founder of The Black Beauty Club, is a social enterprise focused on community building; driving cultural and solutions-oriented conversation across the diaspora; and impactful thought leadership within the Black Beauty space. A community grown on Clubhouse to drive insightful thought leadership and cultural conversations around the Black Beauty space, the Black Beauty Club member is a beauty consumer, aspiring or established founder, beauty critic, or member of the beauty industry. With a mission to galvanize and quantify the economic and cultural impact of Black businesses and consumers driving a stronger ecosystem, the Black Beauty Club and its members are invested in the Black Beauty zeitgeist and seek to bolster community support and through greater industry knowledge.

Listen in to find out more about how Asmeret is manifesting a new world view on food, beauty and civic engagement.

Where to find Asmeret?
www.onelovecommunityfridge.com](https://www.onelovecommunityfridge.org)
On LinkedIn
On Instagram

What's Asmeret reading?
The New York Times
The New Yorker
The Atlantic

Other topics of interest:
Fort Greene Park
Flashback to Glocal Citizen Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo's Episodes
The Campaign Against Hunger
Ami Cole
54 Thrones
Rosen Skincare
Nike Air Pegasus History
Special Guest: Asmeret Berhe-Lumax.

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Episode 322: The Nubuke Foundation @ 20: A Conversation about Building and Sustaining an Arts Institution for Ghana to the World with Odile Tevie

Episode 139: Connecting Communities with Asmeret Berhe-Lumax