Alexis Okeowo - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #198
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 198 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! As always, the entire crew at the DPP Towers wishes you well and trusts that you are in good health. Here’s a powerful episode right here to get your Wednesday off to a fine start, as Pip is joined for a full chat with journalist Alexis Okeowo!
Alexis is a journalist for the New Yorker, who has just released her immense book ‘A Moonless, Starless Sky - Ordinary Women And Men Fighting Extremism In Africa’, which details several encounters with the human side of extremism and radicalism in Africa. Approaching from a sober angle, not from an exaggerated ‘Breaking News’ stance that we are so used to in media, Alexis meets the people behind the stories and explores the humanity within, the religious complexities, the security obstacles, gender issues, just an insane amount for one person to deal with. But she has put herself deep in the situations and emerged with some incredible and touching stories which you would possibly never hear otherwise. She chats with Pip about many of these tales, exploring them further and revealing many of the points in her path which shaped and moulded her career. Candid, honest, and hugely interesting, so give this one your attention and discover much about a side of the world that is not always shown to us - Alexis is the woman to do it!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is episode 198 of the Distraction pieces podcast and I'm |
| 0:07.3 | joining this week by Alexis Acovo and it's one of my favourite episodes I've done. I'll get into it. |
| 0:14.4 | Alexis has got a book out called Immunless Starless Sky, ordinary women and men of fighting |
| 0:21.1 | extremism in Africa and the story is and it just blew me away. We get into them in the podcast. |
| 0:25.7 | I won't go into tons of detail now but it's quite fantastic. The stories are so far from |
| 0:34.4 | the lives that we live yet somehow so relatable at the same time. It's fantastic. But yeah, |
| 0:42.5 | how you're all doing? Episode 198, right? That means we're pretty close to the big 200. |
| 0:50.0 | As you know, I've mentioned a few times. I've been recording a lot of podcasts on the |
| 0:53.6 | Bounce at the moment and I've not been telling you because I like to get them recorded before I |
| 0:59.6 | announce any but I feel like I can tell you a few. This week we're doing a double. So I've just got |
| 1:09.1 | so many podcasts that I'm so excited about at the moment that I'm putting this podcast out on Wednesday |
| 1:14.5 | and there's going to be another round on Friday and on Friday I'm joined by Charlotte Hathalie |
| 1:19.8 | of Ash and of Batfallashes and of her solo projects and it's a really good talk as well. |
| 1:28.3 | We talk about her career obviously but we also talk a load about sci-fi. She's doing an event called |
| 1:34.2 | Space Rocks in association with the European Space Agency and it's cracking. So we talk a lot |
| 1:42.8 | about her career, a lot about the fact that her first ever gig in Ash was in front of 50,000 people. |
| 1:50.3 | And loads of stuff like that. So that'll be on Friday and it'll be episode 199. |
| 1:56.8 | And then we'll get onto episode 200 and I've recorded it this week and you'll be pleased to know |
| 2:03.6 | it's one of the best of every... I'm having a lot this year that some of the best I've recorded. |
| 2:10.4 | Some of you will know there's some big guests on the way. I've had some big guests on in the |
| 2:15.4 | past, some huge names. I think me and Russell Brand teased on Twitter that we might be having |
| 2:23.8 | in back on for episode 200 and that was one of the plans. I had a few different plans. I don't |
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