Radiotopia Presents: S***hole Country
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Coming up next on Radiotopia Presents: S***hole Country.
Afia Kaakyire has a decision to make. And by God, her family is going to help her figure this s*** out.
Join her in this eight-part podcast series as she forages for her family’s guidance in their shared histories during a long-awaited trip to Ghana — true tales dipped in green card anxieties, complicated love, an “Are You the One?” marathon, and liberal portions of the world’s best jollof.
S***hole Country is written, narrated, sound designed by Afia Kaakyire, and produced by Afia and Mark Pagán. Julie Shapiro and Audrey Mardavich are our executive producers. Cover art by Sindiso Nyoni. Theme song by Ria Boss.
Learn more about S***hole Country at radiotopiapresents.fm and discover more shows from across the Radiotopia network at radiotopia.fm.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everyone, this is Matthew Schifron, host of Blind Guy Travels on Radiotopia Presents. |
| 0:14.0 | You've been with me as I've gone on a date, learned out a gesture, given a recital and graduated from college. |
| 0:21.5 | And now that my show is over, it's time for me to pass the torch, if you will, to the next |
| 0:27.1 | storyteller. |
| 0:28.6 | The cool thing about Radiotopia presents is that every couple of months, new storytellers come and give us new shows and tell their stories and that's exactly what's happening now. |
| 0:40.0 | Here's Radiotopias Mark Pagon, who will tell you about Radiotopia Presents next show. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you, Matthew. I'm Mark Pagon. I'm a producer here at Radiotopia, and I'm here with the voice, the person behind the next brilliant show on Radiotopia presents. |
| 0:58.0 | How would you describe the tone of the show? |
| 1:02.0 | Okay, you got to rock with me here. |
| 1:05.0 | It's like taking fried plantain and dunking it and catch up. |
| 1:12.0 | It seems like... and ducking it and catch up. |
| 1:13.0 | It seems like maybe it's not going to work. |
| 1:17.0 | Maybe you're not used to it. |
| 1:19.0 | Maybe you haven't really heard of that combo before, |
| 1:22.0 | but I'm pretty sure it's something you're going to enjoy. |
| 1:26.0 | You just got it, you just got to roll with it. |
| 1:31.0 | My name is Afia. I created a show called Shihull Country and it's an eight-part audio memoir |
| 1:40.7 | about what it means to be African in America and American in Africa and |
| 1:46.8 | achieving the Ghanaian American dream. I went on a trip back to Ghana, which is where my family's from. |
| 1:56.0 | It's me kind of sharing this journey that I went on, like an actual true story story with tape from my family, places that we want to, and also |
| 2:07.7 | archival audio. |
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