⁣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/

Macron’s visit to Kenya was a performance of colonial arrogance.

From schoolchildren being made to look at him like some kind of saviour, to a public forum where he grabbed the room, scolded Africans, and called them disrespectful, to Nairobi roads being shut down for his convoy and even his jog, Macron behaved exactly like colonial power has always behaved in Africa: loud, entitled, intrusive, and convinced that African people exist to listen, clap, and obey.

The most insulting part is not even Macron’s behaviour. It is the African leaders, institutions, and elites who keep making room for this nonsense.

A visitor does not come to your home and order you around. Macron did not come to Kenya to honour Africa. He came to perform power on African soil and everyone who rolled out the red carpet for it should be ashamed.

from 'Analyzing White America'

In the Early Modern Period (around 1500-1800), West Central Africa (modern day Angola, the Congos, and Gabon) was home to a variety of different types of cloth and clothing. In this video, we discuss some of the textiles, jewelry, and other adornment that people in this region wore to cover up or show off status, primarily focusing on the kingdoms of Kongo, Ndongo, and to a lesser extent Loango. Join us as we explore some Central African Fashion History! This video is part of Untold Black History III, a collaboration for Black History Month discussing interesting and positive Black history from around the world. No Generative AI was used in the creation of this video.

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Thank you to the following people for lending their voices to some of the primary source quotes in this video:
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Citations:
1. Vansina, 266; Heywood, 12-13
2. Heywood; Fromont
3. Vansina; Gibson and McGurk
4. Vansina, 272; Heywood; Fromont
5. Thornton, 12-13
6. Vansina, 276
7. Vansina, 265
8. Vansina, 267-268
9. Vansina, 263
10. Thornton, 19
11. Fromont, 845
12. Heywood, 22
13. Fromont, 846
14. Heywood, 196
15. Vansina, 272-273

Sources:
Fromont, Cécile. “Common Threads: Cloth, Colour, and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Kongo and Angola.” Art History, Volume 41, Issue 5 (November 2018): 838–867, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12400

Gordon D. Gibson and Cecilia R. McGurk, “High-Status Caps of the Kongo and Mbundu Peoples." Textile Museum Journal, Volume 16 (1977) https://archive.org/details/gi....bson-mc-gurk-high-st

Heywood, Linda M. Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 2017.

Thornton, John. “Precolonial African Industry and the Atlantic Trade, 1500-1800.” African Economic History, no. 19 (1990): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/3601886.

Vansina, Jan. “Raffia Cloth in West Central Africa, 1500-1800.” Essay. In Textiles: Production, Trade, and Demand, 263–82. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998.

Clips used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhznFtHhkBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpT-4vctNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oStCNLZBjUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ADpO6bau8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVfGarTEfc

Other Resources:

https://mavcor.yale.edu/mavcor....-journal/nature-cult

https://mavcor.yale.edu/mavcor....-journal/depicting-k

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00:00 Intro
00:45 Types of Adornment
01:37 Textiles in West Central Africa
03:44 Making Raffia Fabric
06:38 Class and Clothing
11:59 Decline of West Central African Fashion
12:35 Conclusion

⁣Our visit to Jamestown was arranged by my daughter’s lifelong friend and her business partner who lives in
Ghana and grew up in Jamestown. Upon arrival we received a friendly Akwaaba greeting. Most importantly we were able to donate a large quantity of children books and puzzles (all Afrikan centered), school material, along with interacting with the children at the Keep Off The Street Foundation.

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On May 11, 2026, African delegates convened in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Africa Forward Summit 2026. The summit was co-chaired by Kenyan President William Ruto and French President Emmanuel Macron, its theme: “Africa–France Partnerships for Innovation and Growth”. On paper, this summit marketed itself as a “paradigm shift” in Africa-France relations aimed at building “equitable”, “mutually respectful” partnerships between the two geopolitical entities.But the antics of President Macron during the summit’s proceedings, the curious timing of the event itself, and the arrests of anti-imperialist activists and international delegates in Nairobi, who staged a peaceful protest against this summit, paint a very different picture.One which makes little sense in light of France’s claimed newfound affection for Africa, but makes perfect sense in the light of history.
Barra Hart reports for the Spearhead.

On May 11, 2026, African delegates convened in Nairobi, Kenya, for the “Africa Forward Summit 2026”. The summit was co-chaired by Kenya’s Western-aligned President, William Ruto, and French President Emmanuel Macron, its theme: “Africa–France Partnerships for Innovation and Growth”. On paper, this summit marketed itself as a “paradigm shift” in Africa-France relations aimed at building “equitable”, “mutually respectful” partnerships between the two geopolitical entities.

But the antics of President Macron during the summit’s proceedings, the curious timing of the event itself, and the arrests of anti-imperialist activists and international delegates in Nairobi, who staged a peaceful protest against this summit, paint a very different picture of France’s intentions.

In this video, General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist (CPM) - Kenya, Booker Ngesa Omole, who led the protests along with representatives from anti-imperialist organizations and movements from across the globe, states the reasons for this protests, and comments on the realities behind France's latest stunt in Africa.

Macron’s announcement of MansA, a new African cultural center near the Eiffel Tower, may sound like recognition. But in today’s geopolitical climate, it is hard to separate this kind of cultural diplomacy from France’s desperate attempt to rebuild influence after its humiliating fallout with several postcolonial West African countries.

The real question is simple: who will this center actually serve?

Will it give real space to African artists, thinkers, and independent cultural institutions, or will it become another soft-power corridor where African elites, diplomats, ministers, business leaders, and foreign interests gather under the convenient language of “partnership”?