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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Athena Kugblenu - Black thought, colonialism and resistance

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to comedian Athena Kugblenu about South Africa, panafricanism, black thought, inferiority and superiority, privilege, colonialism and street names, the Barbados slave code, capitalism, oppression, being ‘othered’, dogs and cats, resistance, trying to change the world… and the weather.

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0:00.0

I'm going to slaughter those people, going to have a genocide there.

0:03.4

Like, they worked hard on it too.

0:05.4

They did.

0:06.7

I'll give you credit to that.

0:08.7

They put a lot of effort into it.

0:10.0

Do you know how much effort it takes to get on a boat to sail on it for like two months to get off the boat then die from malaria and then oh you've got to send another boat because they've all died?

0:22.0

That's a lot they really really wanted Africa, you know.

0:25.1

Do you know what I mean?

0:25.6

White people died trying to get that continent.

0:28.5

I mean, it's incredible.

0:29.4

So the least you could do is read the book.

0:32.3

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:37.0

We're all made of human. You are listening to the Made of Human podcast. I'm Sophie Hagen. I am your host and I am a comedian.

0:50.0

So first I just want to plug some of the things I'm doing at the moment because I have started

0:55.7

writing a new show it's called Dead Baby Frog and I am taking it everywhere so that I can meet

1:16.7

every single one of you. I am, I say everywhere that's very Europe-centric because I'm doing it in June and July. I'm doing it in London. prepare for the Edinburgh French Festival which I will be doing in August. Then I will be touring the show all over the UK

1:22.0

I will be in and here I am slaughtering your the names of your cities I will be in Peterborough is that right

1:30.6

Winchester Liverpool Farhamentry, Swindon, Leeds, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Norwich.

1:38.0

No, is that Norwich or is it?

1:40.0

Norwich?

1:42.0

Oh, you're weird, weird country.

1:44.0

Gai will be in Kendall, Mills and Keens,

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