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Link Up Podcast — Episode 3 | Featuring Nua Kwaku Obibini
Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento
* with a special Abibitumi 20 Year Anniversary testimonial from Nua Tamara Kirinatei *
Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) to another episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.
In this episode, we Link Up with Nua Kwaku Obibini — a serious builder, student, community member, investor, and brother who has been moving with purpose on the path back to Black sanity, Black Power, and Black nationhood. We discuss his journey learning about KMT, studying Black ourstory, connecting with Abibitumi, traveling through the Black Land, experiencing the Sankɔfa Journey, supporting Black land ownership (Black Land Flex), and preparing for repatriation to Ghana.
Stay tuned after the conversation for a special testimonial from Nua Tamara Kirinatei, celebrating Abibitumi’s 20 years of being on the case for the race.
This is a conversation about study, transformation, community, repatriation, land, sanity, and the work required to make KMT Black again.
Feel free to share your thoughts and Link Up!
If you like the music featured during the episode, check out: https://www.abibitumi.com/kwento-xpr/
African storytelling is taking center stage once again — not just as entertainment, but as a powerful tool for identity, history, liberation, and global cultural connection.
On this edition of the Morning Show Conversation Segment, Afia TV spotlights the build-up to the 2026 Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival, an international platform dedicated to celebrating authentic African stories, Black identity, cultural memory, and diaspora connection through film and creative expression.
Joining the conversation is Ọnụọra Abuah, Director of the Abibitumi Film Festival & Conference, as we explore the vision behind one of the most culturally significant African-centered film gatherings bringing together filmmakers, storytellers, scholars, creatives, and audiences from across the continent and the global African diaspora.
Organized by Abibitumi and the Decade of Our Repatriation (DOOR) initiative, the festival is more than a showcase of films — it is a movement rooted in reclaiming African narratives and strengthening connections between Africans on the continent and descendants of Africa across the world.
At a time when global media spaces are increasingly questioning representation, ownership of narratives, and cultural authenticity, the Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival seeks to create a platform where African stories are told by Africans, for Africans, and with the fullness of African identity intact.This conversation examines the growing influence of African cinema, the importance of preserving indigenous stories, and the role film can play in reconnecting communities separated by history, migration, and the transatlantic slave trade.
What kinds of stories are shaping the 2026 edition?How is African cinema evolving beyond stereotypes and survival narratives?And why are festivals like this becoming increasingly important in the global cultural conversation?From heritage and spirituality to resistance, identity, language, migration, and liberation, the festival promises to spotlight films that challenge dominant narratives while celebrating the richness and complexity of African experiences.
As Nollywood, independent African cinema, and diaspora storytelling continue gaining international recognition, platforms like Abibitumi are helping redefine what global African storytelling can look like — bold, rooted, unapologetic, and deeply connected to history.This is more than film.It is memory, identity, culture, and connection projected onto the screen.#abibitumifilmfestival
#africanstorytelling #africancinema #diasporaconnection #abibifahodie #nollywood #afiatv #blackculture #africanfilmfestival #door #panafricanism #filmandculture #creativeafrica #globalafrica #africanidentity
Link Up Podcast — Episode 2 | Featuring Baba Kofi and Mama Abena (The Shakirs)
Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento
* with an Abibitumi 20 year tribute from Ɛna Nkanyezi *
Akɔaba, Woezɔ, Oɔbaake (welcome) Black to the Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.
In this episode, we Link Up with Baba Kofi and Mama Abena (The Shakir's) — a Blacktacular couple who share their journey from life in the snakkkes to repatriating home to Ghana. Their story moves through family, community, raised consciousness, the Marcus Garvey influence, Nation of Islam experiences, travel across the Black Land, and the deeper process of (the 4 R's) relocating, repatriating, reclaiming Blackness, and recovering from life inside the “snakkkes”.
This is a conversation about more than moving. It is about coming home, building family infrastructure, recovering humanity, and demonstrating over conversation.
Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!
if you like the music featured during the episode, check out https://www.abibitumi.com/kwento-xpr/
Link Up Podcast — Episode 1 | Featuring Agya Kwadwo Danmeara Tókunbọ
Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento
with an Abibitumi 20 year tribute from Baba Amn and Sister Nuru
Welcome to the premiere episode of Link Up Podcast, where we connect with Abibifoɔ (Black People) doing Black powerful work across Abibiman (the Black Land) and the diaspora.
In this first episode, we Link Up with Agya Kwadwo Danmeara Tókunbọ — longtime builder, administrator, "the Commissioner", solutionary, and one of the behind-the-scenes forces connected to Abibitumi.
We discuss his personal journey from raised consciousness into raised behavior, the importance of language, repatriation, building independent Black platforms, Sankɔfa Journey experiences, Abibitumi’s 20-year legacy, and what it means to do real work for the Nananom (grandcestors) and future generations.
Feel free to share your thoughts, and Link Up!
#linkuppodcast #abibitumi #kwentoxpr #r2gh #nkwadua #SankɔfaJourney #abibiman #kmt #podcast
Our heroes are their enemies and their heroes are our enemies. Who decides which heroes we honor? Who decides what films we will watch? Who decides who we will look up to? Who decides whose statues stand on our campuses, whose stories are told on screen, and whose images shape the minds of our children?In this powerful conversation, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon breaks down the politics of soft power, from the Gandhi Must Fall movement at the University of Ghana to the deeper question of why Black people must choose, honor, document, and project our own heroes.This discussion moves through statues, murals, film, Kmt, Nana Amanirenas, Nana Malcolm X, Nana Nat Turner, Nana Yaa Asantewaa, Nana Marcus Garvey, Nana Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Thomas Sankara, Nana Patrice Lumumba, Nana Harriet Tubman, Nana Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and the ongoing work of building institutions that tell our stories for ourselves.The message is clear: those who control images control minds. If we want our stories told truthfully, we must document our own grandmothers, grandfathers, artists, builders, freedom fighters, healers, teachers, and visionaries.Learn more about the mural project: https://www.abibitumi.com/traoreLearn more about repatriation support:https://www.r2gh.comWatch and upload Black-centered content:https://www.abibitumitv.comJoin the Abibitumi community:https://www.abibitumi.comTopics covered:Gandhi Must Fall, soft power, statues, Black heroes, Abibifahodie Film Festival, Ibrahim Traoré mural, Black storytelling, Kmt, Abibitumi, repatriation, documentaries, Ghana, Burkina Faso, cultural memory, and why we must give our people their flowers while they are still here.Hashtags:#abibitumi #blackpower #abibifahodie #gandhimustfall #blackheroes #africanfilm #ghana #burkinafaso #repatriation #blackstorytelling #softpower #kmt #abibitumitv