A new season of Pounding Fufu is on the way! The mortar is expanding, and the yams are fresh with fiction and non-fiction stories from yours truly and local creatives. Look out for new episodes starting January 2025.
Listen & read the previous episode here:
https://www.danicasamuel.com/podcast/poundingfufu (https://www.danicasamuel.com/podcast/poundingfufu)
22 Mar 2022
Chapter 006 - Fiddleheads on Home and Native Land
Many times when Natasha stepped off the Passing Cloud boat onto foreign terrain, she felt that she might be making history as the first Black person to explore and forage the land.
https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/006 (https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/006)
19 May 2021
Chapter 005 - Eskista, Tibs and Buna: Memories in Toronto’s Addis Abeba
Growing up on Toronto's Danforth, the Habesha culture was fluid from Greenwood to Victoria Park. Aunties and uncles sipped buna, and friends shared Injera amongst each other. This chapter of Pounding Fufu is a memoir of the moments in Toronto's Little Ethiopia, a place vibrant with the sounds of Teddy Afro, sweet-smelling Buna, and people cheerfully anticipating to dance the Eskista at the millennium.
https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/005 (https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/005)
4 Oct 2020
Chapter 004 - Arrested in Rwanda (Part II)
After the arrest, Gisyeni's peace and Lake Kivu's stillness evoke introspection. With attentiveness to her surroundings and dedication to learning more, Danica uncovers the weight of a nation trying to heal from genocide.
https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/004-ii (https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/004-ii)
6 Sept 2020
Chapter 004 - Arrested in Rwanda (Part I)
After a traumatic arrest in Kigali, more incidents from the airport to the mountains mirrored the complexity of a nation still recovering from genocide.
https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/004-i (https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/004-i)
3 Aug 2020
Chapter 003 - This Seat is Yours
In this chapter of Pounding Fufu, Mount Kilimanjaro teaches an important lesson: When you judge someone, you take away the time to love them.
23 Jun 2020
Chapter 002 (Afterword) - Mr. Langevine's Letter
In Chapter 2 - Popsicle Mansions, Mr. Langevine taught students how to turn their popsicle sticks into mansions. Here's a letter he wrote to his Graduating class of 2003/2004.
https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/002 (https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/002)
23 Jun 2020
Chapter 002 - Popsicle Mansions
Those who teach us skills and trades are important, but the teachers who beautifully orchestrate the fundamentals of life are the ones who last in our souls forever. For chapter 2 of Pounding Fufu, Meet Mr.Langevine, one of the Toronto District School Board's (TDSB) most prominent educators.
https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/002 (https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/002)
7 Jun 2020
Chapter 001 - Renewal
For the first chapter of Pounding Fufu, host Danica Samuel learns that pretending to be something you're not, will block you from becoming all that you are.
https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/001 (https://www.danicasamuel.com/poundingfufu/001)
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