Shows
BelieveAfricaAbena & Ekow Richardson – Your Network Is Your Net Worth | Season 1 EP11BelieveAfrica host, Cyril Nana Awere has an open discussion with Abena & Ekow Richardson on their thoughts on how young Africans can leverage networking in a way that can lead to a more fulfilling and rewarding life.2024-06-2843 min
The Sound of Accra PodcastAfro-Parenting, Teaching Non-Africans Twi & Preserving Ghanaian Culture x Michael Ekow | S5 Ep.7This week, Adrian speaks to Michael Ekow Richardson, a British-Ghanaian, Husband and Father, and also the Co-Founder of Destination Africa, an online and in-person community dedicated to empowering and inspiring the next generation of Africans and more.
With a background as a software engineer and professional basketball, Michael decided once he became a father to apply his passions to inspiring and empowering the next generation of young leaders. These days, Michael uses his IT skills as the technological mind behind all things Destination Africa and on the odd occasion, you’ll find him coaching on the basketball co...2023-08-2441 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 171: Destination Africa with Abena and Ekow RichardsonGreetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast we’re back on the trailblazing path and once again, it is all about Destination Africa! Our guides are my guests, the Ghanaian-Briton duo Abena and Ekow Richardson, the co-founders of Destination Africa, which, through programs, workshops, dvds, channels, live streams and other merchandise offers a wealth of knowledge in African languages, culture, heritage and lifestyle. With backgrounds in software engineering, the hair and fashion industries, and professional basketball the Destination Africa journey began for Ekow once he became a father with the decision to apply his passions to in...2023-04-2547 min
Front RowJoan Didion remembered, Call the Midwife, The Tragedy of Macbeth and a review of the year in cultureWriter and essayist Olivia Laing reflects on the work of the American journalist and essayist Joan Didion, who has died at the age of 87.With the Christmas Special of Call the Midwife taking its usual slot on BBC One on Christmas Day – for the tenth consecutive time - the show’s creator and writer Heidi Thomas discusses how she tries to keep the stories fresh, year on year. She’s also joined by ‘super-fan’, the historian Tom Holland, to consider its lasting appeal. The British Council's Director of Film Briony Hanson and writer and broadcaster Ekow Eshun...2021-12-2342 minFront RowMichaela Coel, The Comedy Women in Print Prize, Bristol's Colston statueMichaela Coel, the double-BAFTA winning actor/writer/director of the TV series Chewing Gum, discusses her new show I May Destroy You, a 12-parter telling a story about one young woman’s date rape and her attempt to piece together what happened to her. Yesterday in Bristol the statue of Edward Colston, who made his fortune from slavery, was noosed, pulled from its plinth, dragged and rolled through the streets of Bristol and dumped in the harbour. We hear a personal account from local artist and journalist Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley who was there. Jasmine reflects on the event an...2020-06-0828 min