ABENA OFFEH-GYIMAH on Sacred Seed and Soil /337

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Engaging crucially with food as a cultural, spiritual, and generational experience, this week’s guest Abena Offeh-Gyimah highlights the connections between ancestral foods, and the soil, seeds, and people who play a part in sustaining ancestral foodways. Focusing on the ancestral foods of Africa, and specifically her home-country of Ghana, Abena shares stories of connection, trust, and community fostered by food. Abena calls listeners to pay attention to the technical and spiritual as...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast, I'm Ayanna Young.
0:07.5	Today we are speaking with Abina Afejima.
0:11.8	Who gets to determine who's food is more valuable?
0:14.8	All foods are valuable and I think it's important to how African farmers farm.
0:21.6	They carry the ancestral knowledge, they carry the ancestral wisdom.
0:27.6	Being is a way of life, it's not separate from the farmer, it's not separate from your
0:33.0	neighbor, it's not separate from connection.
0:40.0	Abina Afejima is the founder of Bila, Center for Indigenous Foods in Ghana.
0:46.2	A project that seeks to preserve indigenous African seeds, foods and practices.
0:52.0	Prior to this role, Abina worked as the project lead for the Jane Finch Community Research
0:57.6	Partnership, with extensive experience in community engagement, ethical research, program
1:03.9	development, partnerships and collaboration, and with previous organizations like North
1:09.7	York Community House, Black Creek Community Farm, Jane Finch Center and with Building
1:16.0	Roots Toronto.
1:18.0	Abina brings years of experience in conducting ethical community engaged research practice,
1:24.6	work in local food systems, seed sovereignty and collaboration in food sovereignty movements.
1:31.4	Abina is a writer, a poet, a researcher, a naturalist and a conservationist.
1:40.0	Oh Abina, thank you so much for joining us today while researching for this conversation.
1:46.9	I was really drawn to your work and really appreciative of all of the threads that you
1:53.4	pull on, so I'm excited to get into it.
1:56.8	Thank you for having me.
1:59.0	I'm excited and I honestly can't wait to have this conversation.
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