S E423: Folake Olowofoyeku on Being on Bob Hearts Abishola

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

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🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Folake Olowofoyeku (star of "Bob Heart Abishola") talks about how she got the groundbreaking role on CBS. She also talks about how she is representing being Nigerian. #BobHeartsAbishola #BlackPanther #KarenHunterShow

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I'll get into all of the details in a second but she's going to have to help me
0:14.9	pronounce her name because you know guys I don't want to butcher it I don't want to
0:17.8	butcher it I think I'm going to get the right the first name correct for lache yeah correct. Forlake? No?
0:23.0	Folake.
0:25.0	Yes. Oh, oh, woofo.
0:28.0	Yeah,
0:29.0	yep, yepu.
0:30.0	You know the woeful yaku.
0:32.0	Yeah, say it.
0:33.0	I can hello for you.
0:35.0	Oh my goodness.
0:36.0	All right, welcome to the Karen Hunter show.
0:39.0	Yes, yes, yes, beautiful name.
0:42.0	What does it mean?
0:42.9	Because I think if we break it down,
0:44.5	Olo means something.
0:45.7	I know waffle means, yaku means something as well.
0:49.2	Can you break that?
0:50.4	Olo means a wealthy person.
0:58.0	And Foye. Forloa means a wealthy person and fee-o-ye is to use a chiff since a title. And what it really what it means is a rich man isn't lacking in titles or isn't difficult.
1:09.0	And then my first name Polake is Fie Olake and it means use wealth to paper pretty much but not not necessarily
1:19.7	materialistic wealth but like an all-encompassing wealth.
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