EXCLUSIVE: Nexa Media’s The Change Africa Podcast is again for a sixth season with Peace Hyde, creator and govt producer of Netflix’s Younger, Well-known & African, and veteran artist James Barnor headlining.
The brand new season launched right this moment to coincide with Ghana’s 68th Independence Day. The collection will broadly concentrate on the matters of African self-definition and the way storytelling can be utilized as a instrument for solidarity and progress.
Different season six friends embody Maudo Jallow, a geopolitical analyst and visiting fellow at LSE, Africa Communications Media Group founder Mimi Kalinda, and Victoria and Anna Agyekum, co-founders of On Level Property Administration.
Episode one options Barnor discussing his pictures observe. Barnor is without doubt one of the most necessary artists of his era. Born in 1929 in Ghana, Barnor’s decades-long profession crossed studio portraiture, photojournalism, and way of life pictures. His work has been the topic of main exhibitions at Serpentine and Tate Trendy in London and MoMA in New York.
“That is my very first time on a podcast, and I’m actually delighted to share my journey with an entire new viewers,” Barnor informed us. “I’ve spent my life capturing moments, maintaining the legacy of pictures alive, and now, on the Change Africa Podcast, I’m opening up in methods I’ve by no means finished earlier than, particularly in regards to the tales of these forgotten legends I crossed paths with. It’s an honor to toss my voice into this combine, serving to preserve our heritage respiration.”
The Change Africa Podcast is produced by Isaac Aboah and Daniel Merki and govt produced by Tim Yaw Struthers.
Struthers added: “African storytelling is evolving—daring, unfiltered, and breaking free from outdated narratives. As we launch Season 6 of the Change Africa Podcast, we’re delighted to welcome Peace Hyde, James Barnor, and an distinctive lineup of visionary leaders, disruptors, and changemakers who’re difficult the previous, shaping the current, and defining the longer term.”
