web02.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:01:25 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Glocal Citizens - Episodes Tagged with “Rwanda” https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/tags/rwanda Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0500 Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Amerley Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more just and sustainable world, both in their own communities and on a global scale. en episodic Dynamic Diasporans Making Local and Global Impact Florence Amerley Adu Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Amerley Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more just and sustainable world, both in their own communities and on a global scale. no borderless mindset, pan-africanism, pan-african progress, dynamic diasporans, solutionscape and stretch salon, entreprenuership, argoadu llc, gbekembe, mmofra channel, culture, business, travel, glocal, global citizen, africa, ghana, new york, florence adu, florence amerley adu, leap transmedia productions, glocal citizens podcast, social entrepreneurship, beyond the return, year of return, tourism, expat living, diaspora, mindset hack, glocal speak, returnee, reparative justice Florence Amerley Adu florence@leaptransmedia.com Episode 201: On Becoming a Public Health Champion with Fiona Gambanga https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/201 19f9052d-85d8-4e08-ba02-1e867fbb9847 Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0500 Florence Amerley Adu full Florence Amerley Adu 53:14 no Greetings Glocal Citizens! My guest this week is a fellow podcaster and we met as fellow members of a global #BWiD (Black Women in Development) Connect networking group. Born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, Fiona Gambanga is a global health professional with more than seven years’ experience in qualitative and quantitative research, public health program planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. She has supported countries such as Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe in health workforce planning, diagnostics implementation research and UHC implementation and planning. Currently based in Kigali, Rwanda, Fiona is also the creator, host, and producer of the podcast Utano Public Health Chats (https://linktr.ee/fi_publichealth), a program focused on educating young people about the field of public health in Africa and navigating careers in the field. For those of you planning a trip to Kigali anytime soon, you’ll want to listen in for some local lingo and recommendations for the foodie in you. Where to find Fiona? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionagambanga/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/utanophc/) On X (https://twitter.com/UtanoPHC) On Facebook (https://web.facebook.com/utanopublichealth) What’s Fiona reading? The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (https://a.co/d/bk2ajrU) by Taylor Jenkins Reid Finding Me (https://a.co/d/897gM1V) by Viola Davis The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss and Survival (https://a.co/d/hOcEflu) by Bozoma Saint John Other topics of interest: US Student Acheivers Program - USAP (https://www.usapglobal.org) What are A Levels? (https://www.internationalschoolparent.com/articles/what-are-a-levels/) About December 1st - World AIDS Day (https://www.unaids.org/en/World_AIDS_Day) On spoken English across the globe (https://englishlive.ef.com/en/blog/english-in-the-real-world/englishes-different-english-speaking-countries/) On Zimbabwe in 2011 and 2023 (https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/08/zimbabwe-at-the-crossroads-2023-election-will-determine-its-future/) The Viber App (https://www.brosix.com/blog/viber-review/#:~:text=In%202014%2C%20the%20company%20was,instant%20messengers%20in%20the%20world.) Heaven Restaurant, Kigali (https://heavenrwanda.com/dine/) Special Guest: Fiona Gambanga. fiona gambanga, utano public health chats, zimbabwe, rwanda, #bwid, us achievers program, glocal citizens podcast, storyteller, leap transmedia, global public health professional, florence adu, florence amerley adu, brooklyn, returnees, travel, africa, business, argoadu llc, gbekembe, accra, ghana, entrepreneurship, bozoma saint john, viola davis, world aids day, viber app Greetings Glocal Citizens!

My guest this week is a fellow podcaster and we met as fellow members of a global #BWiD (Black Women in Development) Connect networking group. Born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, Fiona Gambanga is a global health professional with more than seven years’ experience in qualitative and quantitative research, public health program planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. She has supported countries such as Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe in health workforce planning, diagnostics implementation research and UHC implementation and planning. Currently based in Kigali, Rwanda, Fiona is also the creator, host, and producer of the podcast Utano Public Health Chats, a program focused on educating young people about the field of public health in Africa and navigating careers in the field.

For those of you planning a trip to Kigali anytime soon, you’ll want to listen in for some local lingo and recommendations for the foodie in you.

Where to find Fiona?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On X
On Facebook

What’s Fiona reading?
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Finding Me by Viola Davis
The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss and Survival by Bozoma Saint John

Other topics of interest:
US Student Acheivers Program - USAP
What are A Levels?
About December 1st - World AIDS Day
On spoken English across the globe
On Zimbabwe in 2011 and 2023
The Viber App
Heaven Restaurant, Kigali

Special Guest: Fiona Gambanga.

]]> Greetings Glocal Citizens!

My guest this week is a fellow podcaster and we met as fellow members of a global #BWiD (Black Women in Development) Connect networking group. Born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, Fiona Gambanga is a global health professional with more than seven years’ experience in qualitative and quantitative research, public health program planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. She has supported countries such as Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe in health workforce planning, diagnostics implementation research and UHC implementation and planning. Currently based in Kigali, Rwanda, Fiona is also the creator, host, and producer of the podcast Utano Public Health Chats, a program focused on educating young people about the field of public health in Africa and navigating careers in the field.

For those of you planning a trip to Kigali anytime soon, you’ll want to listen in for some local lingo and recommendations for the foodie in you.

Where to find Fiona?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On X
On Facebook

What’s Fiona reading?
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Finding Me by Viola Davis
The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss and Survival by Bozoma Saint John

Other topics of interest:
US Student Acheivers Program - USAP
What are A Levels?
About December 1st - World AIDS Day
On spoken English across the globe
On Zimbabwe in 2011 and 2023
The Viber App
Heaven Restaurant, Kigali

Special Guest: Fiona Gambanga.

]]> Episode 56: In a Holy Room with Somi Kakoma https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/56 a275ed8a-f06e-4859-be8f-5793f123381b Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:00:00 -0500 Florence Amerley Adu full Florence Amerley Adu 51:52 no Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week we meet another creative mover and shaker, literally. Born in Illinois to immigrants from Rwanda and Uganda, acclaimed vocalist & songwriter, Somi Kakoma has built a career of transatlantic sonicism and storytelling. Her latest album Holy Room - Live at Alte Oper with Frankfurt Radio Big Band (Salon Africana 2020) was recorded in an 18th Century German opera house in May 2019 and is currently nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Her last studio album Petite Afrique (Sony 2017) was written as a song cycle about the African immigrant experience in the midst of Harlem’s gentrification in New York City and won the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album. Petite Afrique is the highly anticipated follow-up to Somi's major label debut The Lagos Music Salon (Sony 2014) which was inspired by an 18-month creative sabbatical in Lagos, Nigeria and features special guests Angelique Kidjo and Common landed at #1 on US Jazz charts. Both albums were nominated for ECHO Awards in Germany for Best International Jazz Vocalist. Recently venturing into theater, Somi was named a 2019 Sundance Theater Fellow for her original musical, Dreaming Zenzile (http://octopustheatricals.com/somi#:~:text=Dreaming%20Zenzile%20is%20a%20modern,the%20consciousness%20of%20a%20people) about the great South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Makeba). The premiere production was shut down days before opening due to COVID-19. Somi is a Soros Equality Fellow, a USA Doris Duke Fellow, a TED Senior Fellow, an inaugural Association of Performing Arts Presenters Fellow, a former Artist-in-Residence at Park Avenue Armory, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Baryshnikov Arts Center. She is also the founder of Salon Africana, a boutique arts agency and record label that celebrates the very best of contemporary African artists working in the music and literary arts. Also celebrated for her activism, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asked Somi to perform at the United Nations’ General Assembly in commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She was also invited to perform at Carnegie Hall alongside Hugh Masekela (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Masekela), Dave Matthews, and Vusi Mahlesela in celebration of South African democracy. Somi and her band continue to perform at international venues and stages around the world. In her heart of hearts, she is an East African Midwestern girl who loves family, poetry, and freedom. Where to find Somi? www.somimusic.com (https://www.somimusic.com/) On Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/somimusic) On Instagram (http://instagram.com/somimusic) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/somimusic/featured) On Twitter (https://twitter.com/somimusic) Salon Africana (https://salonafricana.com/) Who is Somi reading? Edwidge Danticat (https://edwidgedanticat.com/) Chimamanda Adichie (https://www.chimamanda.com/) Toni Morrison (https://smile.amazon.com/Toni-Morrison/e/B000APT7NQ?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1610294025&sr=8-2) Rich Dad, Poor Dad (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08M37LST8&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_IjY-FbZHFKSN7&tag=glocalcitizen-20) by Robert T Kiyosaki What’s Somi listening to? Hervé Samb (http://www.hervesamb.com/en/biographie/) Zoë Modiga (https://www.zoemodiga.com/about) Nduduzo Makhathini (http://www.bluenote.com/artist/nduduzo-makhathini/) Julia Sarr (https://www.rfi.fr/en/culture/20190404-Julia-Sarr-breaking-codes-African-song) Other topics of interest- • On Color Energy (http://www.colourenergy.com/html/what-is.html) Special Guest: Somi Kakoma. global citizen, glocal citizens, podcast, africa, holy room, songwriter, playwright, vocalist, music, uganda, rwanda, ghana, somi kakoma, dreaming zenzile, florence adu, leap transmedia, miram makeba, grammys, hugh masekela, jazz, soros fellow, ted fellow, frankfurt radio big band, salon africana Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week we meet another creative mover and shaker, literally. Born in Illinois to immigrants from Rwanda and Uganda, acclaimed vocalist & songwriter, Somi Kakoma has built a career of transatlantic sonicism and storytelling. Her latest album Holy Room - Live at Alte Oper with Frankfurt Radio Big Band (Salon Africana 2020) was recorded in an 18th Century German opera house in May 2019 and is currently nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Her last studio album Petite Afrique (Sony 2017) was written as a song cycle about the African immigrant experience in the midst of Harlem’s gentrification in New York City and won the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album. Petite Afrique is the highly anticipated follow-up to Somi's major label debut The Lagos Music Salon (Sony 2014) which was inspired by an 18-month creative sabbatical in Lagos, Nigeria and features special guests Angelique Kidjo and Common landed at #1 on US Jazz charts. Both albums were nominated for ECHO Awards in Germany for Best International Jazz Vocalist.

Recently venturing into theater, Somi was named a 2019 Sundance Theater Fellow for her original musical, Dreaming Zenzile about the great South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba. The premiere production was shut down days before opening due to COVID-19.

Somi is a Soros Equality Fellow, a USA Doris Duke Fellow, a TED Senior Fellow, an inaugural Association of Performing Arts Presenters Fellow, a former Artist-in-Residence at Park Avenue Armory, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Baryshnikov Arts Center. She is also the founder of Salon Africana, a boutique arts agency and record label that celebrates the very best of contemporary African artists working in the music and literary arts. Also celebrated for her activism, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asked Somi to perform at the United Nations’ General Assembly in commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She was also invited to perform at Carnegie Hall alongside Hugh Masekela, Dave Matthews, and Vusi Mahlesela in celebration of South African democracy.

Somi and her band continue to perform at international venues and stages around the world. In her heart of hearts, she is an East African Midwestern girl who loves family, poetry, and freedom.

Where to find Somi?
www.somimusic.com
On Facebook
On Instagram
On YouTube
On Twitter
Salon Africana

Who is Somi reading?
Edwidge Danticat
Chimamanda Adichie
Toni Morrison
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T Kiyosaki

What’s Somi listening to?
Hervé Samb
Zoë Modiga
Nduduzo Makhathini
Julia Sarr

Other topics of interest-
• On Color Energy

Special Guest: Somi Kakoma.

]]> Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week we meet another creative mover and shaker, literally. Born in Illinois to immigrants from Rwanda and Uganda, acclaimed vocalist & songwriter, Somi Kakoma has built a career of transatlantic sonicism and storytelling. Her latest album Holy Room - Live at Alte Oper with Frankfurt Radio Big Band (Salon Africana 2020) was recorded in an 18th Century German opera house in May 2019 and is currently nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Her last studio album Petite Afrique (Sony 2017) was written as a song cycle about the African immigrant experience in the midst of Harlem’s gentrification in New York City and won the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album. Petite Afrique is the highly anticipated follow-up to Somi's major label debut The Lagos Music Salon (Sony 2014) which was inspired by an 18-month creative sabbatical in Lagos, Nigeria and features special guests Angelique Kidjo and Common landed at #1 on US Jazz charts. Both albums were nominated for ECHO Awards in Germany for Best International Jazz Vocalist.

Recently venturing into theater, Somi was named a 2019 Sundance Theater Fellow for her original musical, Dreaming Zenzile about the great South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba. The premiere production was shut down days before opening due to COVID-19.

Somi is a Soros Equality Fellow, a USA Doris Duke Fellow, a TED Senior Fellow, an inaugural Association of Performing Arts Presenters Fellow, a former Artist-in-Residence at Park Avenue Armory, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Baryshnikov Arts Center. She is also the founder of Salon Africana, a boutique arts agency and record label that celebrates the very best of contemporary African artists working in the music and literary arts. Also celebrated for her activism, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asked Somi to perform at the United Nations’ General Assembly in commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She was also invited to perform at Carnegie Hall alongside Hugh Masekela, Dave Matthews, and Vusi Mahlesela in celebration of South African democracy.

Somi and her band continue to perform at international venues and stages around the world. In her heart of hearts, she is an East African Midwestern girl who loves family, poetry, and freedom.

Where to find Somi?
www.somimusic.com
On Facebook
On Instagram
On YouTube
On Twitter
Salon Africana

Who is Somi reading?
Edwidge Danticat
Chimamanda Adichie
Toni Morrison
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T Kiyosaki

What’s Somi listening to?
Hervé Samb
Zoë Modiga
Nduduzo Makhathini
Julia Sarr

Other topics of interest-
• On Color Energy

Special Guest: Somi Kakoma.

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