- 25
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About African Men Speak
A journey exploring African masculinity through research, conversations, and personal reflection. The show examines what it means to be an African man today, drawing on academic studies and diverse perspectives from across the continent's rich cultures. Covering topics from personal growth and fatherhood to identity, vulnerability, and accountability. Hosted by a former humanitarian worker turned stay-at-home dad, this programme explores what it means to be a man today, engaging with nuance and difficult truths.
- Publisher
- Ralph Ofuyo
- Category
- health & fitness · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Jul 2025
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 25 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
In Conversation #007: On Music, Memory & Identity | Furaha Ruguru/LaMusicJunkie
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
In Conversation #006: On Fatherhood, Discipline & Legacy | Sidney Osundwa
6 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
In Conversation #005 — On Identity, Faith and the Power of Stories | Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
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In Conversation #007: On Music, Memory & Identity | Furaha Ruguru/LaMusicJunkie
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] This is our people. And you get shaped by those things. Whereas if you're living in the city, all you have is a TV and school and, you know, and billboards. So that's what's shaping who you are, your identity. And so for a lot of urban people, I just feel like there's lack of identity, of African identity. We are going to identify with the hip-hop culture or just Watuwa Maju because we don't have our own ground. We don't know who we are because of that disconnection with the older generation, disconnection with the land that our ancestors have been in, and just disconnection with culture. So I think that's what's lost. […]
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- Furaha Ruguru
- Sidney Osundwa
- Akosua Adomako Ampofo
- Dr Mzamo Masito
- Janet Karanja
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