This week we continue our abroad series-opening with special insights from co-host Verdell Wright on the importance of centering Black narratives of religious freedom and experience. We briefly visit the plight of despised Nigerian atheist/activist Mubarak Bala who in-secret was unjustly sequestered in Nigeria for nearly a year only to be sentenced to 24 years for the invisible crime of blaspheming Allah by clerics in northern Islamic Nigeria.

Finally we center the spotlight in an interview with activist speaker, Mohmmed Cisse -an expat born and raised in Ivory Coast, West Africa. Cisse recounts his upbringing in a cultural milieu heavily controlled by religious affiliations, poor mental heath education, patriarchy and misogyny, and HIV death and stigmatization. However, all is not lost-Cisse discusses his transformative work with The Clergy Project and shares his stories of the bright light of hope for his family and community abroad.

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(Ep. 22)

Show Notes

Host: Rogiérs

Co-Host: Verdell Wright

Written by: Rogiérs

Narration: Rogiérs

Interview: Mohmmed Cisse

Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC

Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC

Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson

Music Licensing: Storyblocks

Additional Music: David “Preach” Balfour (Piano),

Ismael (Gaddafi Mosque-Kampala, Uganda/Call to Prayer), The 1997 Batch”, J Dilla & Vintage Vibez Music Group

Resources & Mentions

Verdell Wright (TikTok @VeeAyeDubz)

TCP, The Clergy Project

“Nigeria: Atheist Activist Mubarak Bala sentenced to 24 years in blasphemy case” (Africa News)

“The Cost of Being an Atheist” BBC Africa Documentary

BBC Kaduna Book Festival 2018-Humanism in Nigeria with Leo Igwe

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(c) 2023 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net

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Admittedly one of our more atheist-y episodes, today we offer the second installment of our “Abroad Series”. This show takes a deep-dive, critical look into the phenomenon of missionary work-mostly of the Christian/Evangelical variety. From New York to Brasil, West Africa to Uganda, India to the Caribbean and back, we scrutinize the mission field; its presumptions of good faith and nobility and a religious ideology too easily associated with virtue, cultural diversity and community uplift.

Our story is told in three parts: A personal narrative; a trenchant critique on a missionary ripped from the headlines and a culminating, feature interview with Dr. Adria Armbister. She is a distinguished professional in International Development, hails from a denomination well-known for its reputation abroad and both member and ally of the BSC-DC organization.

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(Ep. 21)

Show Notes

Host: Rogiérs

Written by: Rogiérs

Narration: Rogiérs, Drai Salmon

Contributing Writer: Dan Savage for Savage Lovecast

Interviewer: Dr. Adria Armbister

Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC

Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC

Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson

Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Storyblocks

Additional Music: "theShedding" (Courtesy of Fibby Music Group, LLC), Stanley and the “12 Sleepless Nights”, “The 1997 Batch”, J Dilla & Vintage Vibez Music Group, “God Great God”, Kurt Karr (Zomba Gospel, LLC)

Resources & Mentions

Leonard Ostrander, The Clergy Project

“Call Me Kuchu” (Documentary)

“We Had the Land, They had the Bible” (Monique White)

“Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World” (Elle Hardy)

Missionary's harrowing last diary entries before he was killed by Sentinelese tribe (Mirror Magazine)

Ama Ata Aidoo, Afrogoats

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We’re back with a new season as this February marks the first anniversary of the WWH podcast!! To celebrate, we’re launching Season 2 with our Abroad series. In this first episode our first stop is to the Caribbean: the USVI 🇻🇮, Jamaica 🇯🇲 - and ultimately hitting the US mainland (after a stopover in Brasil 🇧🇷). We’re highlighting Black (and Indigenous) music as "dissent" and sharing this insightful interview with Ro by Jack Matirko from the TST-TV show and #ONPBreakpoint.

Jack and Ro talk about the demonization of African culture in the West Indies as a cultural product and dynamic in religious practices on a landscape long shaped by Christian missionaries both Catholic and Protestant in colonial settlements where Black and indigenous people were forced to give labor. We also briefly the demonizing of Black musical forms throughout key periods of American music history and how they differ from Caribbean musical landscapes, from past to present.

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(Ep. 20)

Show Notes

Host: Rogiérs

Writing & Narration: Rogiérs

Interviewer: Jack Matirko for TST-TV and The Satanic Estate

Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC

Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC

Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson

Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Storyblocks

Additional Music: "Again" (Sine Qua Non Mix) & (Seven Davis, Jr. Mix) (Courtesy of Fibby Music Group, LLC)

Resources & Mentions

"We've Got Everything Here: A Modern Nightmare" by Jack Matirko (2023)

"Rogiérs Fibby on the demonization of African culture in the West Indies" Only Sky Media, 2021)

Rumble, A PBS Documentary (2019)

Kumina Peoples of Jamaica, Documentary (Source Unknown)

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