Yoruba Creation Story w/ Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi
About this episode
The episode features a discussion with Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi about the Yoruba creation story and its implications in African intellectual history.
We are joined by storyteller, author, and researcher, Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi to talk about African intellectual history, colonial historiography, and the Yoruba creation story. Learn how Obatala broke the world, and then brought it back together again and became the patron of disability. Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of racism, enslavement, surgery, death in childbirth, colonialism, and ableism. Guest Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemes i is a Nigerian-British author, researcher, and strategy advisor with twenty years of enterprise technology transformation experience across financial services and insurance. She is the founder of the Afrodeities Institute CIC and Afrodeities Press . Housekeeping - Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books - Call to Action: Send in those urban legend emails! - Submit Your Urban Legends Audio: Call us! 617-420-2344 Find Us Online - Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com - Patreon: patreon.com/spiritspodcast - Merch: spiritspodcast.com/merch - Instagram: instagram.com/spiritspodcast - Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/spiritspodcast.com…
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Hosts: Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin
Guest: Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi
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Organizations: Afrodeities Institute CIC, Afrodeities Press, Multitude
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