Wales, Africa and the World

Oreoluwa Ojelade and the African diaspora in Wales | Episode 14

In this episode, we’re pleased to be joined by Disapora and Inclusion Officer at Hub Cymru Africa, Oreoluwa Ojelade.
We’ll be looking in to Ore’s journey from Nigeria to Wales, her role at Hub Cymru Africa and the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel, and what her hopes for the global solidarity sector and African diaspora in Wales are.
Later on, we'll be finding out what's been happening in Africa this week with a focus on Nigeria and an alleged massacre with presidential inaction.
Hub Cymru Africa is Wales’ leading international development and global solidarity organisation. We support organisations across Wales in building sustainable links and projects in partnership with organisations in Africa and beyond.
Find out more about us and access support via our website: hubcymruafrica.wales
Hub Cymru Africa is a partnership bringing together Fair Trade Wales, Welsh Centre for International Affairs, Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel and Global Health Partnerships.
We are members of the UK Alliance of International Development Network Organisations and a founding member of Citizens Initiatives for Global Solidarity in Europe. Read more about our partners and funders here: hubcymruafrica.wales/partners-funders

Peter Kitelo Chongeywo, Ogiek Community Leader | Hub Cymru Africa Podcast | Episode 13

In this episode of the Hub Cymru Africa Podcast, in collaboration with Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel and Africa Welsh News, Glenn speaks with Peter Kitelo Chongeywo. Kitelo is an Ogiek community leader and land rights activist from Kenya, who was born and raised in the forest and moorlands of Mt. Elgon, where he and his community have experienced violent evictions from their homes despite living peacefully and sustainably on their lands.
In this interview, we explore the tensions of forced land rights and evictions, his organisation and activism for justice for the local people, and focusing on their successes.
The Ogiek Community are partners of Size of Wales.

Part 2 of Dr Salamatu Fada, North Wales Africa Society | Hub Cymru Africa Podcast | Episode 12

In this second instalment of our interview with Dr Salamatu Fada, Glenn continues his discussion with Dr Fada about her work in Nigeria with JAVS, an environmental care consultancy, and Talafi, which focuses on social issues and dynamics, how they relate to environmentalism and taking action to address them. Both of these vehicles represent Dr Fada’s work on climate action.
The discussion turns to progress on the climate emergency and the action, or lack of action, taken by leaders and politicians around the world. But importantly, what more we can do, on the ground and at the grassroots, especially in Africa. Finally the discussion turns to Dr Fada’s role in public life and local politics, her motivations and the importance of role-modelling and representation.
Dr Fada has a PhD in conservation biology, originally from Nigeria now residing in Bangor, in the north of Wales where she chairs the North Wales Africa Society.

Dr Salamatu Fada, North Wales Africa Society | Hub Cymru Africa Podcast | Episode 11

In this new episode of the Hub Cymru Africa Podcast, in collaboration with Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel and Africa Welsh News, Glenn Edwards speaks with Dr Salamatu Fada from the North Wales Africa Society.
Dr Fada has a PhD in conservation biology, originally from Nigeria now residing in Bangor, in the north of Wales where she chairs the North Wales Africa Society.
In this episode, Glenn explores Dr Fada’s upbringing in northern Nigeria and her relationship with the natural environment and how she ended up in Bangor University where she completed her PhD. The conversation explores how Dr Fada acclimated to the weather and people with her family. Dr Fada’s work includes volunteering work both here in Wales and in Nigeria with the North Wales Africa Society, Climate Cymru and founding the Coalition of Conservation Biologists in Nigeria.

Paskaline Maiyo, Cheb Arts | Hub Cymru Africa Podcast | Episode 10

In this new episode of the Hub Cymru Africa Podcast, in collaboration with Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel and Africa Welsh News, Isimbi Sabageni speaks with Paskaline Maiyo from Cheb Arts.
Paskaline is a Kenyan artist, actress and model now living in Cardiff, Wales and is passionate about fashion, art and celebrating African excellence.
In this episode, Isimbi explores Paskaline’s work promoting the arts through her organisation Cheb Arts and promoting global solidarity through the arts in Wales and Kenya, and indeed everywhere else in the world.

Vaughan Gething MS | Hub Cymru Africa Podcast | Episode 9

Cath Moulogo is joined by Wahura Kabutha, the Communications Officer at the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel, a partner organisation of Hub Cymru Africa's.
In this episode, Wahura interviews Vaughan Gething MS, Minister for Economy in the Welsh Government and Labour & Co-operative Member of the Senedd for Cardiff South and Penarth. They discuss his upbringing, his work in politics and the skills needed to be a Minister, which were tested to the full during the Covid-19 Pandemic when he became a familiar face and voice in Wales as Minister for Health and Social Services.
Vaughan Gething MS
Vaughan was born in Zambia and brought up in Dorset. He was educated at Aberystwyth and Cardiff universities.  He has one son with his wife,  Michelle and is a largely retired cricketer who is also  a fan of both rugby and football.
Vaughan was a solicitor and former partner at Thompsons. He is a member of the GMB, UNISON and Unite unions, and was the youngest ever President of the Wales TUC. He has previously served as a county councillor, school governor and community service volunteer – supporting and caring for a student with cerebral palsy. Vaughan is also a former president of NUS Wales.
Between 1999 and 2001, Vaughan worked as a researcher to former AMs Val Feld and Lorraine Barrett and between 2001 and 2003, was the chair of Right to Vote – a cross-party project to encourage greater participation from black minority ethnic communities in Welsh public life. He is also a current member of the Co-operative Party.
Vaughan has held the following roles in government, before taking up his current role as Minister for the Economy in May 2021:
Cabinet Secretary/Minister for Health and Social Services May 2016 to May 2021
Deputy Minister for Health September 2014 to May 2016
Deputy Minister for Tackling Poverty June 2013 to September 2014
 
Wahura Kabutha
Wahura is a PhD  researcher at Cardiff university specialising in consumer behaviour and digital marketing. She has experience in an array of industries such as entertainment, charities and sales. She is passionate about empowering minority communities. Wahura manages the communication channels for Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel and maximises the visibility of campaigns and projects. Her hobbies include travelling, meditating and creating content.
 
This is part of the Hub Cymru Africa podcast series that are being recorded with support from the Welsh Government and the FCDO Small Charities Challenge Fund.
Hub Cymru Africa: hubcymruafrica.wales
Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel: ssap.org.uk
SSAP Youth Leadership Network: ssap.org.uk/pages/about

Reframing the Narrative | Hub Cymru Africa Podcast | Episode 8

Earlier this year, Hub Cymru Africa and Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel held a photography competition as part of our ongoing "Reframing the Narrative" campaign. It was judged by photographers with links to both Wales and Africa: Takura Aldridge Nyamowa, Glenn Edwards and Justice Kalebe.
In this podcast, Faith Israel, Diaspora and Inclusion Officer at Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel, is joined by Takura Aldridge Nyamowa, one of the photography competition judges. They discuss informed consent and its many facets within photography from the perspective of both small groups and Non-Governmental Organisations.
Takura is an architectural designer and portrait photographer studying in Wales and working in Zimbabwe. He co-founded the SSAP Youth Leadership Network and the Cardiff University Zimbabwean Society, both of which engage African diaspora communities in Wales.
Faith is a diaspora and inclusion officer at SSAP and political thinker interested in the interconnected struggles for liberation and ways of working towards this in the now. They have an academic background in international politics and racialisation and have worked within the international development sector focusing on the African diaspora and their development potential.  In their work at SSAP with HCA they focus on anti-racism, inclusion and leveraging diaspora knowledge within global solidarity. Additionally, they are passionate about political memory, blackness in art and the black British experience.
This is part of the Hub Cymru Africa podcast series that are being recorded with support from the Welsh Government and the FCDO Small Charities Challenge Fund.
More info about the photography competition and informed consent: https://hubcymruafrica.wales/news/photographycompetition2022/
Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel: ssap.org.uk
SSAP Youth Leadership Network: ssap.org.uk/pages/about

SSAP Youth Leadership Network | Solidari-Tea Podcast | Episode 7

Emina Redzepovic, Campaign Coordinator for The Case for Global Solidarity, is joined by SSAP Youth Leadership Network Officer and social justice activist Billy Mazoya, and SSAP Project Coordinator, textile designer and climate justice activist Ophelia Dos Santos.
They discuss Hub Cymru Africa's commissioned research into levels of engagement in Wales with global solidarity, how it compares with their own lived experiences, and the role that social networks can play.
This is part of the Hub Cymru Africa podcast series that are being recorded with support from the Welsh Government and the FCDO Small Charities Challenge Fund.
More info: hubcymruafrica.wales/research-confirms-that-wales-is-a-caring-nation
Full research: hubcymruafrica.wales/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GB-Dashboard-2022_07_04-WALES-MA.pdf
Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel: ssap.org.uk
SSAP Youth Leadership Network: ssap.org.uk/pages/about