Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week on the podcast we have another gift from the Glocal Citizens community. In this two part conversation we meet Dr. Osei Alleyne. A joint PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and former inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, Dr. Osei also holds an MA in Communications from Temple University. A still active internationally touring professional Canadian Hip hop artist and Spoken word poet of Trinidad & Tobago extract, his field research employs a multi-modal ethnography of Reggae, Rastafari, Afrobeat and Hip-hop performance communities and related social justice movements across the African diaspora, with an emphasis on the black Atlantic nexus between Jamaica and Ghana. We recently met while he was in Ghana working on his forthcoming book, Dancehall Diaspora: Rastafari and Rudeness in the African Postcolony, thanks to consumate connector, Muhammida el Muhajir. As Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Production at Temple University, his writing repertoire spans African diasporic art and philosophy movements such as afrofuturism, afropolitanism and afropessimism. In this conversation, Dr. Osei offers an insightful glimpse into the spaces he has navigated in honing this and his other crafts.

Where to find Osei?

On LinkedIn

On Instagram

On YouTube

What’s Osei watching?

First Peoples Documentary

Other topics of interest:

About Trinidad and Tobago

History about Carnivals in the Black Diaspora

The Book of African Names

On Africana Studies

About Liberia’s Edward Wilmot Blyden

About The Black Star Line,

Garveyism, and The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

About Ethiopianism

Alex Haley’s Roots

Association of Black Anthropologists

Zora Neale Hurston, Novelist and Anthropologist

About Cheik Anta Diop

About what was to be Akon City

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Debate 1967

About Cultural Theorist Stuart Hall

About Author and Scholar, Paul Gilroy

Martin Bernal and Black Athena

Reggie Rockston and HipLife

About Shatta Wale

What is the Theory of Mind

Black Holes and the Macro Universe

Special Guest: Osei Alleyne.