S***hole Country 3: A Typical Ghanaian Woman
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Afia’s always had a complicated relationship with her mom Agnes. But if she’s going to get some much-needed clarity, she’ll have to ask Agnes some uncomfortable questions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | Before we start today's show, we want to shout out another show in the Radiotopia family, Radio Diaries. a on history and beyond. A year after the release of their series The Unmarked Graveyard, |
| 0:25.2 | they're back with a slate of new stories this summer and fall. Their new mini series, Making Waves, |
| 0:30.5 | will explore the rise of Talk radio in America with stories about four |
| 0:34.4 | little-known controversial broadcasters who change the airwaves. You'll also hear |
| 0:39.6 | stories about the US Navy's mission to get humans to live in the ocean, a group that led to the rise of American conspiracy theories, and a woman who was part of the greatest climate migration in American history. |
| 0:51.0 | More than eight decades ago, her family fled Arkansas in the wake of the |
| 0:55.3 | Dust Bowl to find a better life in California. Here's a clip from that story. |
| 0:59.7 | I know mama thought when we got to California her and her kids would be fine. |
| 1:05.0 | Plenty of work for everybody, places to live, plenty of fruit and vegetables and all this stuff. But that wasn't true. |
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| 1:51.0 | I'm in a car standing in the apartment my parents want to give me and I feel white. Like Blair Waldorf and Gossip girl levels of white. Don't get me wrong, some of my cousins are living large. |
| 1:55.0 | I just never really thought generational wealth was in the cards for Artswig of the family tree. |
| 2:01.3 | But apparently, the second my risk-averse father finally retired, my mom Agnes sat him down, |
| 2:07.0 | gave him some real talk on one of her favorite subjects. |
| 2:11.0 | Money. |
| 2:12.0 | As in, you know how you drove a taxi and I sewed wedding dresses for crazy |
| 2:16.4 | brides and we scrimmed to buy land in New York and Accra in the 90s? |
| 2:21.0 | Guess which real estate market is burning up and which investment will sink us before we can force |
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