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This Is Karen Hunter

S E417: Boris Kodjoe: Africa is Our Motherland!

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Boris Kodjoe, talks about filming ABC's "Station 19" during the pandemic. He also talks about the importance of Black people being citizens of the world and traveling to the Motherland.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Let me welcome. He is the star of station 19. He is also an amazing, he started in so many things,

0:18.0

but he's doing some things in the streets and he inspired me so I'm going to tell him thank you.

0:22.0

Let me welcome him first, the one and only Boris Kojo!

0:25.0

Good morning. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

0:30.0

Somewhere in the world. You must be on German time.

0:33.0

That's right.

0:34.0

How are you?

0:36.0

I was in Germantime.

0:37.0

Yep, I appreciate you.

0:39.0

I'm good.

0:40.0

I'm good.

0:41.0

I'm good. I'm, we're back at work. Thanks to ABC and Disney and these rigorous safety measures, safety protocols that we are observing. We're back at work, shooting, season 4 of station 19, which is exciting.

0:57.3

You know, masks, face shields, social distancing, all the stuff that keeps us healthy, all the stuff that the former government,

1:07.7

the former president told us was not important.

1:10.5

And I'm here to tell you, it is important. It-huh. Well, I'm here to tell you it is important.

1:14.0

It's still current, first of all, and how inspired, okay, well, listen, let's talk,

1:20.0

Boris Kojo, last time you were here before we get into politics and station 19 and everything else,

1:25.4

last time you were here, you talked to me about Africa. And I did not have Africa on my list of to do places to go, you know,

1:32.3

I was really double. Yeah you and you we had this conversation and after I thought about it I actually went and spent Christmas holiday in Ghana in Accra. I stayed in a beautiful condo complex. I didn't do the tourist thing. I hung out with some people who are from there, and I was like Boris

1:55.5

Kojo, thank you for the inspiration. And I think everybody should hit the motherland,

2:01.2

several countries, because they're not all the same, it's a huge continent.

2:04.8

But now we have this movement in this country among some black people who want to just

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