S1 EP11 - BLACK STUDIES W/NELS ABBEY: King Charles, Reparations, Working Independently, Hip Hop MBA, Uppity, Dominique Samuels + more
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the "end" of Black Employment Month aka Black History Month, King Charles' unapologetically White speech during a recent state visit to Kenya, what is and isn't authentic reparatory justice, and the ongoing White psychosis of the British royal family.
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In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Nels Abbey. They discuss amongst many tings, his formative years in foster care and boarding school and his working years from asset banker to media exec. They also discuss, topical news including the current UK's most diverse yet most far-right government in history, Nel's new book out next year The Hip Hop MBA uses hip hop as a model for how we think about economics. his new event Uppity a monthly forum for discussing Black issues in Black communities with the first event The Trial of Dominique Samuels happening earlier this week at The Africa Centre.
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Nels Abbey is a former asset management banker turned public intellectual, medical executive, broadcaster, satirist, author of "Think Like A White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black" (2019) and The Hip Hop MBA: Lessons in Cut-Throat Capitalism from Rap’s Moguls (out spring 2024) and most recently founder of "Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujee."
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Guest: @nelsabbey (IG + T)
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
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King Charles stops short of apology for ‘abhorrent’ colonial violence in Kenya
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/king-charles-stops-short-of-apology-for-british-colonial-violence-kenya
Nels Abbey's Guardian Column
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nelson-abbey
Boarding Schools: The System That Rules Britain - BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fcl1
UK to compensate Kenya's Mau Mau torture victims
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/uk-compensate-kenya-mau-mau-torture
‘Black face of white supremacy'’
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/features-news/2023/11/02/black-face-of-white-supremacy/
Canongate scoops banker-turned-writer Abbey's hip hop business 'bible'
https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/canongate-scoops-banker-turned-writer-abbeys-hip-hop-business-bible
The Hip-Hop MBA: What the Empires, Moguls, and Business of Rap Can Teach the World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60741847-the-hip-hop-mba
Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujee
https://www.instagram.com/uppityhq/Why It’s Okay to Change (I Did After Doing Psychedelics)
https://medium.com/@dominiquetsamuels/how-psychedelics-changed-and-destroyed-my-life-768f10b7640d
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THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
Buy the Book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476
Make It Plain Podcast
Every Week We’re Making Plain What’s Happening in the Black World and Interviewing Guests You Need to Hear.
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We launched S2 of the Make It Plain (MIP) Podcast to coincide with the historic founding of the Organisation of Afro-America Unity (OAAU). Malcolm X announced the establishment of the OAAU at a public meeting in New York's Audubon Ballroom sixty years ago, on June 28, 1964.
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Make It Plain (MIP) is an independent media platform, the editorial wing of Harambee OBU (HOBU), and a go-to-hub for Black radical politics.
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The host, Kehinde Andrews, teaches as a professor at Birmingham City University (BCU) where he co-led with Dr. Dionne Taylor the set-up of the first and only award-winning Black Studies BA + MA program in Europe, the chair of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (HOBU), and editor-in-chief of Make It Plain. He is the author of "Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century" (2018), its prequel "The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World" (2021) and his latest "The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World" out in Sept 2023.
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W: www.make-it-plain.org, www.blackunity.org.uk
IG: @makeitplainorg @kehindeandrews @harambeeobu
X: @makeitplainorg @kehinde_andrews @HarambeeOBU
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Written and hosted: Kehinde Andrews
Executive production: Weyland McKenzie-Witter
Coordination, socials + publishing: Oliver Luke Taylor
Socials input: Djeneba Deby Bagayoko
YouTube: Kadiri (Kehinde's son)
Theme music is "Patience" by Weyland McKenzie and AyChibs
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