Wow.
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Educated, entertained, enlightened. My mind is blown, and I’m still processing all the incredible learnings.
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About Tuesday night: As I grow through discomfort IN PUBLIC so WE can progress together, my dear friend Lydia Amoah and I attended the THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF A VISIBLE #AFRICAN #HERITAGE lecture with the #BlackHistoryMan himself MR #RobinWalker via A Tribe Called Progress! It was an enriching, educating, transformational experience for me. ⚡️ As well as growing through discomfort, I learnt new things about #Africa, met new friends, and destabilised my accepted narratives of #AfricanHeritage. It was important for me to attend too because I need to constantly unlearn and relearn my assumptions of people to better support them (and—as a disabled, active intersectional feminist-in-progress, creative, entrepreneur, South Asian man—that I always fight against my own privileges), and develop myself that I don’t accept the South Asian community’s (and my ancestors’ past beliefs) of hostile, wrong, irrelevant anti-blackness that passes generations. I will not accept this, and I will change for the better. It is also vital for all of us to control our narratives or others will own us. ⚡️ I am bigger than my body (and the world) gives me credit for. I can only be so if I continue adding “richness” into my life by meeting new people, going to extraordinary events, and have an insatiable appetite to always learn and grow without limitations. ⚡️ To learn more from Robin (and his 26+ years of knowledge), you can attend his Black Studies in The City course that starts on 26 March, and you can book your place here: https://www.atcp.co/ I’ve booked my place as well! ⚡️ Thank you, Mr Walker, for an incredible, insightful evening that I thoroughly enjoyed and I’ll never forget. See you again soon! ⚡️ Big shoutout to my ew friend new friend Michael Lutterodt Quarcoo Amaning for astonishingly creating and hosting an awesome event. You are an extraordinary human! Medaase. ⚡️ Also, as yesterday was is the #GhanaIndependenceDay (#GhanaAt62—#HappyGhanaIndependence!) and since I’m visiting #Ghana for the first time later this year, for the event, I wore my new #Kente scarf. 🇬🇭 ⚡️ An amazing event shared with amazing people. ⚡️ “Do not follow the path. Go where there is no path to begin the trail.” — #Ashanti #proverb (#Ghana). ⚡️ ⚡️ #community #humanity #BlackHistory #LearnMore #GrowMore #Growth #BeBoldBeWildBeFearless