GOOD People is where creativity, culture, and conversation collide. Hosted by designer and creative director Kojo Boateng, this podcast goes beyond the polished surface to explore the raw, unfiltered journeys of the world’s most compelling creatives. From designers and artists to musicians and cultural disruptors, GOOD People dives deep into the work, the struggle, and the big ideas shaping our world. Expect bold questions, honest stories, and the kind of insight that makes you see creativity—and the people behind it—in a whole new way.
GOOD People with Kojo Boateng
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GOOD People is where creativity, culture, and conversation collide. Hosted by designer and creative director Kojo Boateng, this podcast goes beyond the polished surface to explore the raw, unfiltered journeys of the world’s most compelling creatives. From designers and artists to musicians and cultural disruptors, GOOD People dives deep into the work, the struggle, and the big ideas shaping our world. Expect bold questions, honest stories, and the kind of insight that makes you see creativity—and the people behind it—in a whole new way.
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November 25, 2025
Nick Makoha on Rewriting the Myths We Inherit
<p>Nick Makoha is an award-winning Ugandan poet, playwright, and founder of the Obsidian Foundation, whose work has been redefining contemporary Black writing for years. He fled Uganda as a child during the political crisis of the 1970s — a history that runs like an electrical current through everything he writes.</p><p>In this episode, he talks about his new collection, The New Carthaginians — a genre-bending exploration of myth, migration, and the political rupture that shaped his childhood. We dig into time loops, Black Icarus, Basquiat, and the power of rewriting the stories we inherit.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can learn more about Nick Makoha on his website at <a href="https://nickmakoha.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">nickmakoha.com</a> or by following him on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nick.makoha/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">instagram</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nick.makoha/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">facebook</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
November 10, 2025
The Making of Remi Rough
<p><br></p><p>Remi Rough is a London-born artist known for transforming graffiti’s raw energy into bold, geometric abstraction. Emerging from the South London graffiti scene in the 1980s, he has spent more than three decades pioneering a visual language that blends modernist precision with street culture rhythm. </p><p>Rough has collaborated, and been in group shows with artists including Futura, Shepard Fairey Eric Haze Crash, Shok1, MadC, Carlos Mare, JonOne and Stormie Mills.</p><p>In 1999, he painted three murals with Banksy, including the mural titled Dogma</p><p><br>A key figure in the Ikonoklast Movement and a contributor to its definitive monograph Future Language of the Ikonoklast, Remi’s work spans murals, canvases, public installations, and sound. He is also one half of the experimental music duo Dead Can Rap with American rap artist Mike Ladd, extending his creative expression into rhythm and spoken word. Remi’s art has appeared in cities worldwide and continues to push the boundaries of contemporary urban creativity.</p><p>You can learn more about Remi Rough by following him <a href="https://www.instagram.com/remirough/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@remirough</a> at <a href="http://remirough.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://remirough.com</a>, and follow his music on bandcamp with The Dead Can Rap <a href="https://thedeadcanrap.bandcamp.com/music" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://thedeadcanrap.bandcamp.com/music</a></p><p><br></p>
September 18, 2025
Jen White-Johnson on Zine Making and Collective Liberation
<p>Jen White-Johnson is an Afro-Latina, disabled, and neurodivergent artist, designer, and educator whose work merges art and activism. Based in Baltimore, she creates zines, photographs, and digital art that celebrate Black disabled joy and challenge systems of erasure. Her Black Disabled Lives Matter symbol has become an international icon of protest and solidarity, and her photo-zine Knox Roxs documents the life of her son while amplifying Black neurodivergent voices.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode we talk about how she navigated her own autism diagnosis and how she uses photography, design and zine making as a pathway to collective liberation in troubled times.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can learn more about Jen White-Johnson by following her on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jtknoxroxs/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a> or visiting her website <a href="https://jenwhitejohnson.com/ " target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://jenwhitejohnson.com/ </a></p><p><br /></p><p>Or theme music is produce by Soliheen, you can support his music at https://soliheen.bandcamp.com/</p><p><br /></p>
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