Blaxit to Africa and Redefining Freedom with Toddré Monier
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today’s Black History Story: His Trip Proved He Had The Wrong Idea About Africa
W.E.B. DuBois. Maya Angelou. Stockley Carmichael. Pauli Murray.
These are just a few names of prominent Black activists who moved to the motherland during their lifetimes. For them, moving to Africa presented an opportunity to redefine their relationship with America and their African identities. It significantly shaped their self-view. Strengthened connections to their ancestral roots. Sparked a new understanding of what it felt like to be HOME.
In the 21st century, while vacationing on the shores of Zanzibar, our guest - put the wayward thoughts of many into practice, excavating her life in California to sow roots in Nairobi.
Toddré DaLaura Monier is a culture and wellness writer committed to inclusion and sustainability. She’s also the producer and host of BLAXIT 2 Africa, a podcast designed to encourage people of African descent to return to the Motherland.
Her dream is for our people to self-actualize, but she believes that we can’t reach our fullest potential in the United States. Toddré ’s mantra is that “the United States doesn't deserve us and in this episode, she presents a case for why Africa does.
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| 0:00.0 | If you love Push Black's Black History Year, you'll love our newest podcast called Two Minute Black History. |
| 0:09.0 | In only two minutes, you'll hear little known stories about our people and reclaim the knowledge we need to take action and advance our community. |
| 0:19.0 | To move towards the future, you've got to look to the past. Learn the history you didn't get in school. |
| 0:26.0 | Tune in to Two Minute Black History every Tuesday through Friday, right on the Black History Year Feed and wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | W-E-B Du Bois, Maya Angelo, Stokely Carmichael, Paulie Murray. These are just a few names of prominent black activists who move to the mother land during the course of their lifetimes. |
| 1:03.0 | For them, moving to America presented an opportunity to redefine their relationship with America and their African identities. |
| 1:11.0 | It significantly shaped their self-view, strengthened connections to their ancestral roots, sparked a new understanding of what it felt like to be home. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Len from Push Black, and this is Black History Year. |
| 1:28.0 | In the 21st century, while vacationing on the shores of Zanzibar, one woman, our guest, put the wayward thoughts of many into practice, excavating her life in California to sow roots in Nairobi. |
| 1:42.0 | Tadre de Laura Monier is a culture and wellness writer committed to inclusion and sustainability. |
| 1:49.0 | She's also the producer and host of Blacks It to Africa, a podcast designed to encourage people of African descent to return to the mother land. |
| 1:59.0 | Her dream is for our people to self-actualize, but she believes that it's impossible for us to reach our fullest potential in the United States. |
| 2:10.0 | Tadre's mantra is that the United States doesn't deserve us, and in this episode's conversation with Jay, she presents a case for why Africa does. |
| 2:21.0 | But first, there's a reason why Africa calls for us all. Once you get there, everything changes. |
| 2:41.0 | In a 1980 interview with Ebidi Magazine, comedian Richard Pryor spoke profoundly about how a trip to Africa changed his life. |
| 2:52.0 | Arriving in Kenya, the vibrancy and beauty of the diaspora moved him in a humbling way to forever change the direction of his comedy. |
| 3:02.0 | Richard also spoke of living in Kenya, one day. |
| 3:07.0 | That day never came for the funny man, but that warmth he experienced going home to Africa envelops everyone fortunate enough to return and touch our ancestral soil. |
| 3:20.0 | Case in point, director Ryan Kugler. |
| 3:24.0 | Ryan Kugler's inaugural journey to Africa, as he directed the record-breaking film Black Panther, was equally world-altering, renewing the eternal question, should we all consider returning to the mother land? |
| 3:40.0 | Ryan Kugler couldn't make a film inspired by Africa without visiting the continent first. |
| 3:45.0 | He wanted fictional Wakanda to reflect and respect real life African traditions. |
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