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The Blindboy Podcast

Emma Dabiri

The Blindboy Podcast

Blindboyboatclub

Arts, Philosophy, Art, Fiction, Factual, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Emma is an academic who focuses on African Studies. We chat about her bestselling book "Don't Touch My Hair"

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0:00.0

Hello, you feathered, costored doves with your sticky confectionery wings. What's

0:07.1

going on? I'm getting texts already and it's only the start of the Falcon

0:12.0

Podcast. Alright, welcome to episode 87 of the Blind Buy Podcast. And this week is

0:20.3

a very intense week for me. I'm rounding up and finishing my book. I'm out of

0:24.9

the country also. So I'm going to have a live podcast for you this week. But it's

0:31.8

a live I recorded about six months ago and I've been wanting to put this one off

0:36.2

for ages. But I promised I wouldn't or promised I was going to hold on to it

0:42.0

for a specific date and then put it out. Fantastic feedback for last week's

0:47.8

podcast. It was a boat by a diversity and the climates and you know direct action

0:55.8

that we can do. So I got a great response online in particular to the call for action

1:01.7

for people to make the fucking seed bombs with wildflower. You know getting Irish

1:09.5

wildflower and making little bombs out of clay and compost and wild Irish flower

1:16.2

and making these little balls and throwing them into vacant lots are someone's

1:20.5

on-camped garden or ghostestates. A lot of people sending me photographs of themselves

1:25.6

making seed bombs and spreading wildflower around Ireland. I encourage you to do this.

1:32.2

It will help the bees. So anyway this week's podcast it's a live

1:39.2

podcast from Vicar Street that I recorded about six months ago with Emma Dabbery who is

1:45.7

she's an academic right and she specialises an academic specialises on issues of race.

1:51.9

She teaches African study, African history and what I enjoyed most about Emma is that

2:00.7

yes she's an academic but she communicates academia through storytelling. She has a good

2:09.3

ability to communicate knowledge in such a way that it's it's not it doesn't exclude you

2:15.3

in the way that academia does because academics of sometimes can just feel high for luten

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