⁣Link Up Podcast — Episode 4 | Featuring Ɓatɨ-Ijɔ̄ Bɛsoŋ

Hosts: Niara Esi Ìjèawelē Ọmọlará Kwento & Bakari Kwadwo Ọbatayé Kwento

with a special Abibitumi 20 Year Anniversary testimonial from Agya Kwasi Datɛ

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 Ɓatɨ-Ijɔ̄ Bɛsoŋ — a committed daughter of Abibiman (born in Cameroon), an active Abibitumi member, indigenous spirituality practitioner, and serious advocate for returning to Black sanity. She shares her upbringing between urban and rural Cameroon, the powerful influence of her grandmothers, the role of indigenous food, medicine, family structure, and the lessons she received from elders before fully understanding their depth.

We discuss her journey out of imposed religious frameworks, her search for ancestral grounding, her discovery of Abibitumi, and how the platform helped her resist assimilation while living in Krakkka-ville. Ɓatɨ-Ijɔ̄ also speaks on the importance of indigenous language, why she is working to reclaim Kɛ́nyāŋ and Keaka, how language connects directly to ancestral communion, and why speaking only colonial languages creates a break in Black memory.

The conversation also moves through Cameroon’s cultural struggle, repatriation, family structure, polygyny, spirit animals, palm wine, the Sankɔfa Journey, and the work required to pass Black values from one generation to the next.

** Stay tuned after the conversation for a new Animated Cartoon series **

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!

BY AKOSUA K.👈🏾

The narrative often propagated by western imperialists - that Africans sold themselves into slavery, has been completely destroyed in this video.

Author and Educator, Robin Walker, debunked this narrative when he appeared recently on a UK based Podcast, “In My Opinion” as a guest, where he was asked about the origins of the European Slave Trade and the popular claim that “Black people sold each other” before the Europeans exploited it.

He explained how early European involvement began with kidnapping, raids, and transatlantic exploitation before evolving into manipulation, destabilization, and the deliberate engineering of conflict for profit. He showed how African societies were targeted, coerced, divided, and weaponized against one another for the benefit of the empires in the global north. Most importantly, he dismantled the lie that reduces a 500-year global crime against humanity into a lazy slogan meant to erase accountability.

For Africans, the message is clear: to know your history is to begin to reclaim your dignity.