The Sound of Home from Mind Your Own
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Snap Studios introduces an epic collaboration years in the making... "Mind Your Own." A new storytelling show hosted and produced by Lupita Nyong'o, that navigates what it means to belong all from an African perspective.
Lupita Nyong’o knows what home feels like. But where exactly is it? In Mexico, where she was born? Kenya, where she grew up? Or the States, where she’s spent the past 20 years?
Like Lupita, millions of Africans are spread out across the globe following family, searching for love, building futures and creating stories. It's these stories – wild and messy, intimate and joyous – that she wants to hear.
Join Lupita as she shares tales of her own and dives into the lives of real people finding their way in new worlds of every kind.
Episode 1: The Sound of Home
Sound travels in all directions, but your feet can only follow in one.
“Losing My Accent”: Lupita takes on an American accent when she becomes an actor-in-training at Yale.
Original score by Ian Hughes Pelton AKA Tofu Jack.
“Obaa Sima”: How long can a song stay in your heart? A musical journey from Ghana to Germany to Canada transports Yaw Atta-Owusu from the toy store to the dance floor.
Big thanks to Yaw for sharing his story with us! Check out the Obaa Sima album featured in this episode. Thanks as well to Awesome Tapes From Africa for sharing Yaw’s music with us.
Produced by Marisa Dodge and Regina Bediako with assistance from Bo Walsh. Original score by Clay Xavier, with additional music from Marla Kether and Ata Kak.
Original Mind Your Own theme song by Sandra Lawson-Ndu AKA Sandu Ndu x Peachcurls ft. Ehiorobo. This episode also featured the song Show My Side by CKay ft. Amaarae.
Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich
Managing Editor: Regina Bediako
Director of Production: Marisa Dodge
Series Producers: David Exumé and Priscilla Alabi
Music Supervisor: Sandra Lawson-Ndu
Story Scouts: Ashley Okwuosa, Fiona Nyong’o, Jessica Kariisa, Lesedi Oluko Moche
Editors: Nancy López and Anna Sussman
Engineering: Miles Lassi
Operations Manager: Florene Wiley
Story Consultant: John Fecile
Graphic Design: Jemimah Ekeh
Original Artwork: Mateus Sithole
Special Thanks: Allan Coye, Jake Kleinberg, Samara Still, Sarah Yoo, Warner Music Group, and Afripods.
Episode transcripts can be found here.
Mind Your Own is a production of KQED’s Snap Studios, with sales and distribution by Lemonada Media. Hosted and produced by Lupita Nyong’o.
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, a story telling event. |
| 0:10.0 | For the first time ever I get to hand over the Snap hosting microphone to a dear friend of |
| 0:17.0 | Snap Studios. Oscar-Wining Star Stays and Screen, but Peter Niongo is in the studio to introduce a brand new series we've been working on together for years now. |
| 0:27.0 | The show with heart, sold, of course a beat, but different than anything we've ever attempted. Some of you know are from Black Panther, |
| 0:36.3 | from a quiet place, or even 12 years a slave, but at Snap, we know Lopita as a storyteller, |
| 0:42.4 | as a 3 a.m. texter, a do it again editor, a strings puller, a gift |
| 0:47.6 | giver, and today a host extraordinary. |
| 0:52.4 | Lapido Niongo, take it away. |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you, Glyn. |
| 0:57.0 | What an honor. I've been working with a snap family on something special. It's called Mind Your Own, a new storytelling show hosted and produced by me, |
| 1:16.2 | that navigates what it means to belong all from an African perspective. |
| 1:22.3 | Today, we're going to find our voice. I'm going to tell you |
| 1:26.8 | a story about finding mine after I chose to lose it and then we'll meet a |
| 1:32.1 | Gagnan who found his voice after it got lost. |
| 1:37.5 | This is Mind Your Own. Mind Your Own. Mind your own own own. That's a phrase I've heard used throughout the continent. |
| 1:48.0 | It's both an admonition and an invitation. It's mind your own business, like deal with what you're dealing with, you know? |
| 1:58.0 | But it's also like mind your own people, find them, take care of them. |
| 2:05.0 | So when I think about that phrase, for me, |
| 2:10.0 | this podcast is about me minding my business and my business is African stories. |
| 2:17.0 | I grew up surrounded by African stories. |
| 2:20.0 | Those experiences, not the hot button news reports that we get a whole lot of, but the nuanced, intimate stories are extremely interesting to me. |
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