What’s In An Accent with Lupita Nyong’o

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Lupita Nyong’o joins Trevor and Christiana to discuss her new podcast and its colorful stories of the African diaspora. The three also discuss their multifaceted identities, why Lupita refuses to expect rejection, and get into a debate for the ages–can they crown a “best” African country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got to be interested in whatever. I mean, there was a time when I was like obsessed with Lincoln Park.
0:07.5	Wow. And nobody. That is freedom. And you know, yes.
0:11.2	That's the devil's music where I'm from. Anything that involved in electric guitar in my mother's house was the devil.
0:18.6	I remember in church, you know, we'd go to Sunday school.
0:21.5	Yeah.
0:21.9	And then like, so I'd go to different churches.
0:24.0	So it was like, you know, the African church was just very simple.
0:26.7	It's church and hymns and choirs and everything.
0:29.2	And then we would go to like, you know, the white part of it.
0:32.4	Like that was the church and it was more like organized.
0:35.8	And even when they would tell stories about like the devil like
0:38.4	remember the the story when Jesus is fasting yeah and he's just like yeah and then he gets tempted
0:43.1	and then they'd be like and then Satan appeared yeah and like literally like when you say
0:50.8	Lincoln Park I'm like wow you really did have a free life pizza you really were free I you say Lincoln Park, I'm like, wow, you really did have a free life. Lupita.
0:56.0	You really were free, Louisa. I was free.
0:56.5	I was free.
0:57.5	I was free.
0:57.6	Wow.
1:03.1	This is What Now with Trevor Noah. Hi.
1:15.6	Hello.
1:16.6	How are you?
1:17.6	Lupta, nice to meet you.
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