The Mama Africa Show
Wednesday 8 to 8:30 pm
Here is one of Keita's brand new shows.
04/03/2013
Memorial Day Weekend Sunday May 29 2011, - Click here for show:
Reflections on Malcolm X Speech " By any Means Necessary" Part Two : with Rouse members Jessie Newcomb, Lee Desay & Crystal Gamet. ROUSE an emerging White anti- racist working group in Portland Maine more info - rouseportland@gmail.com
Sunday May 22 2011 - Click here for show:
Reflections on Malcolm X Speech " By any Means Necessary" Part One Dawud Ummah President, Center for African Heritage, Portland Maine Helen Caddie Larcinia, Sankofa Theraputics, Washington Maine
Sunday May 8, 2011 The mothers Day Show - Click here for show:
Poet, writer Toussaint Saint Negritude, Vermont Poet, writer Nyja Attenborough, New york City
Sunday May 01, 2011 Click here for show:
An Interview with Alixa and Naima, the soul-sister
performance duo "Climbing PoeTree"Employing art as their weapon, their
medicine, their voice, and their vision, with roots in Haiti and
Colombia, Alixa and Naima reside in Brooklyn
Meet "Resisting Racism" work shop facilitator Ewuare X. Osayande on
the Mama Afrika Show.A political activist, cultural analyst, author
and educator, Osayande's work and activism are guided by the
principles he advocates.
Sunday April 25, 2010 Click here for show:
An international discussion with Tope Bada "De-mystification of a Nigerian" and A local Spotlight with Joshua Hughes a young gifted director and producer of the play "Change".
Change: Interviews with cast Rene Johnson, Gerard Paschal and write Joshua Huges. A play about black inner city youths, the streets and the choices they make and live with. FMI: 207.615.3654
Feature interview: An international phone interview with Tope Bada in Lagos, Nigeria. Tope grew up in the country, trained as a Crop Protection and Environmental Biologist. He is an education consultant that works with students to fulfill their dreams for international education through travel experiences. Tope speaks about "the misconceptions created out there about Africans (especially Nigerians) and their country which focuses extremely on the negatives and makes the average Joe on the street of Lagos, Abuja or anywhere on the continent look like a criminal, poor and lacking in skills." badabeat.com
Sunday April 18, 2010 Click here for show:
The Freedom cafe and Ancient Black Biblical History.
Meet Janice & James Swinton, on May 30 2010 they will be former owners of the Freedom Cafe in Warterville Maine. While ending one chapter in Maine with the closing of their cafe, learn about their new chapter, going back to her mother's home to continue her mother's work bringing the teachings of ancient Black biblical history to Mississippi.
Sunday April 11, 2010 Click here for show:
Interviews: Local rap artist Dray Senior promoting his new CD release - "I Can Relate" with producer Gerard Paschal and promoter Victor Rios.
Paul Young, New England non-profit consultant wort a column in the Press Herald asking the hard question about transparency and the equitable disbursement of CD funds for the use of community development projects.
Sunday April 4, 2010 Click here for show:
The Mama Afrika Show with guests Kazeem Lawal- Executive Director and Founder of The Maine African Film Festival and Bilal Shukr" Guest host 15 min Spotlights with Blanca Santiago - Central Latino Maine updates on comprehensive immigration & health-care reform, Emily Posner with legislative actions on LD 1611, and Journalist Tom Bell, Press Herald reporting on his article "Monkey e-mail scorned, defended"
Feature Interview with Kazeem Lawal and executive producer Keita-Annie Whitten: This year's incredible MAFF five-day line-up of film, art, music and dialogue. Festival runs from April 6th to April 10th 2010 featuring fifteen films at the Nickelodeon Cinema in downtown Portland. Kazeem explains features such as Sex, Okra and Salted Butter (2008) by Director Mahamat Saleh Haroun, (R)evolution Africa (2007) by directors Joan Frosch and Alla Kovgan, Al Hadji and His Wives, including films about youth in transition with Bronx Princess and Coming of Age, followed by a Panel Discussion titled "Being African in Maine" with Portland Police Chief James Craig.
Kazeem speaks about how dreams do come true when he put a wish out on Facebook to have Nigerian artist Lemi Ghariokwu, album artist for Fela Kuti - be apart of this year's event. With the help of Kazeem's extended network, this year's festival kicks off with Ghariokwu with an opening night art reception and exhibit at Mayo Street Arts and ends with a party at Empire Dine and Dance with a pre-party Afro-Beat discussion with DJ Rich Medina (NYC) and artist Lemi Ghariokwu, followed by live music and dancing with DJ Medina.(maff.org )
Sunday January 10, 2010 Click here for show:
12-1PM Interviews with participants and teachers about their involvement in "READING, WRITING AND THE ENGAGED COMMUNITY": A Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration project of the NAACP Portland Branch. This project was lead by the USM Stone Coast MFA program, offering a series to adult writers of all levels and styles an opportunity to critically engage in the writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Participants will have the opportunity to share their writing at a public recital, Friday, January 15 Harraseeket Inn, Freeport 5:00 p.m., and have their writing included in a published booklet later in the year.
1-2 PM Meaghan La Sala is a recent graduate of Salt Inst majoring in radio production. She worked on a project with John Yanga from called Security in a New Homeland. John is a refugee from Sudan who left behind more than just his home but his profession as an educator. He is currently an organic farmer and staff member of Cultivating Communities in Portland. Listen to their project this Sunday along with their narratives on how this project came to be.
Sunday December 13, 2009 Click here for show:
Keita Whitten, executive produce MSW interviews SMCC sociology students sharing their final projects and an interview with Dr.O Moyo USM professor, dept of Social Work on the current political and economic situation is Zimbabwe.
SMCC students Alex Hooydonk . Topic: Racism & White privilege, raising awareness for social change
Kasandra Gushee & Sean Sypniewsky Topic: Alcoholism in Maine
Sunday December 6, 2009 Click here for show:
DING, WRITING AND THE ENGAGED COMMUNITY A Project of the NAACP Portland Branch A series of interviews on the Mama Africa Show will follow participants in a writing workshops being offered to Portland adult writers of all levels and styles as an opportunity to critically engage in the writings Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keita Whitten, executive produce MSW interviews participants response to their first writing assignment
1st workshop : A Letter from a Birmingham Jail 1954
The Reverand Virgina- Maire: Executive Director, Tengo Voz
Mikhu Anderson: USM Stonecoast MFA program graduate student
Rachel Talbot Ross: President NAACP Portland Branch
Sunday October 11, 2009 Click here for show:
Zora Neale Hurston "Their Eyes Were Watching God "symposium at Bates Sat Oct 17 2009. Interview with Victoria Bonnabaker, Maine Humanities Council and Rachel Talbot, Chair of the Portland NAACP
NAACP Martian Luther King writers project 2010 updates with Rachel Talbot, Chair of the Portland NAACP
Wabanaki Perspectives and Human Awareness at UMA, Oct. 13-16.
First Parish in Portland (Unitarian Universalist). Re discovering Columbus event: the story & struggle of one Christian, Bartolome de Las Casas, to end Columbus's exploitation and abuse of America's original inhabitants. Interviews with Rev. Katharine Hope Winthrop and Wells Staley-Mays, Portland Freedom Trail Guide & local historian
Human watch rights updates in Maine: Support Legislation to Reduce the Use and Abuse of Solitary Confinement*
Sunday Oct 4, 2009 Click here for show:
The Mama Africa Show, Sunday Oct 4 2009 with Executive producer, Keita Whitten
1) Sunday, Oct 4 2009, the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity at The University of Southern Maine will be awarding the Catalyst for Change Award to Sally Chandler, Maine's first African American female elected official & Chair of the York County Commissioners, previous recipients of this award include Dale McCormick. The mission of the center is to feature and preserve the collective stories and contributions of African American, Jewish, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities. The center will be announcing this year's honoree for the Catalyst for Change Award, a significant award recognizing hard work as a catalyst for social change regarding diversity, equality, human and civil rights in Maine. Executive Director Keita A. Whitten, MSW interviewed board members and staff including ; Susie Bock (Director of the Sampson Center studio), Bob Greene (Chair, Sampson Center Board) Victoria Mares-Hershey (Sampson Center Board Member), Abe Peck (USM faculty scholar), Mark Lapping (Sampson Center creator) & David Nutty (University Librarian and center administrator)
2) Film: RiseUp interview with director Luciano Blotta. RiseUp is a journey into the heart of Jamaica - the island that gave birth to the worldwide cultural phenomenon of Reggae. In a society where talent abounds and opportunity is scarce, three distinct and courageous artists fight to rise up from obscurity and write themselves into the pages of history. RiseUp follows artists in the dangerous streets, back alleys and crowded dancehalls of Kingston and the countryside. Riseup.com
Sunday Aug 16, 2009 Click here for show:The commemorative ceremony and dedication of Malaga Island
The Mama Africa Show, Sunday Aug 16 2009 with Executive producer, Keita Whitten
Interviews with:
Tiziana Rinaldi: Yoruba priestess, Novelist and NYU Professor from Brooklyn New York
J. T Lewis: Musician and Music anthologist from Brooklyn New York
Topic: The commemorative ceremony and dedication of Malaga Island on Saturday Aug 15 on Malaga Island as one of the sites on the Maine freedom Tails in collaboration with the Portland NAACP, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Maine Freedom Trails and The University of Southern Maine. The interview spoke about the significance of the Yoruba prayers and songs as it related to the opening ceremony involving additional contributions by The Rev. Virginia Marie Rincon, Penobscott elder and tribal representative Donna Loring, and NAACP Portland Chapter president Rachel Talbot Ross. The interview also included the perspectives of Lewis as he spoke to significance of the ceremony and The African Diaspora as it related to music.
Sunday May 31, 2009 Click here for show: Asking the question: Do we live in a police nation?
Sunday March 15, 2009 Click here for show: Interview with Ziad Abbas.
March 8, 2009 - Click here for show:
March 1, 2009 - Click here for show:
February 22, 2009 - Click here for show:
February 8,2009 - Click here for show:
Daniel Minter Best known known as a children's book illustrator. Designed the 1994 Kwanzaa stamp and icon and markers for the City of Portland "Freedom Trails"
Victoria Mares Hershey Journalist & writer: Playwright of "How did I get here: Africans in the making of America
A Performance about African Americans , African Lives in the Making of America. A performance and art installation by Victoria Mares Hershey and Stephen Oliver. The production reveals Africans not as nameless slaves but as people who were as integral to the making of America as well-known patriots and colonial families.
Stephen Oliver - designer, architect and artist. Recent accomplishments include designing the museum of African Culture on Brown Street in Portland Maine.
January 25,2009 - Click here for show:
January 18,2009 - Click here for show:
Bidler's comments on the MAS echoed that of Ron Huber of WRFR Community Radio who worte " He [ Brown] was exiled to first one in 2006, then another Maryland prison in late 2008 for appearing on a community radio station WRFR in Rockland Maine, and for speaking to investigative reporter Lance Tapley. Here is a link to a letter he sent us last week.
Letter Link
Huber goes on to say "Governor Baldacci needs to be put on the spot about these exiles and brought to revoking their removal out of state. And Deane Brown is only one of many.
January 4,2009 - Click here for show:
December 7, 2008 - Click here for show:
November 9, 2008 - Click here for show:
Also included was The New Jersey 4. A case introduced by Conrad from The Naughty North. The NJ4 are a group of young, queer, black women who were attacked by a man on the N.Y. Pier a while back. They defended themselves from this attack (and caused the assailant minor injuries) and are all currently imprisoned on attempted murder charges.
November 2, 2008 - Click here for show:
October 26, 2008 - Click here for show:
October 19, 2008 Program - Click here for show:
October 12, 2008 Program - Click here for show:
October 19, 2008 Program - Click here for show:
August 31, 2008 - Click here for show:
August 24, 2008 - Click here for show:
August 17, 2008 - Click here for show:
Asking the question: Do we live in a police nation? Sonia Sotomayor's appointment & WMPG presents Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold Documentary by Rob Rosenthal.
Ziad Abbas is a Palestinian refugee and journalist from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. As a journalist Ziad has worked with Palestinian and international media and has helped with the production of several documentary films, including "Promises," the award-winning documentary that portrays the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of young people. Currently on leave from the Ibdaa Cultural Center, Ziad is working with Middle East Children's Alliance MECA, a non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California. Ziad is also the co-founder of the Ibdaa Cultural Center
Topic: Kinobe & Soul Beat Africa
Interview with Kinobe playing traditional Kora & guitarist Ouma Michael from Soul Beat Africa : Launching their first major world tour 2009. Kinobe & Soul Beat Africa is the new voice of Ugandan music, the inspired synthesis of African roots and world music, of traditional and modern instrumentation. With a voice that flows with a lyrical maturity and precision that conjures images of the great Lauryn Hill or soul diva Erykah Badu, the Bay State's own Naia Kete opens!
Topic: A select group of King middle school students did a reading project for African heritage month about "Claudette Colvin: an unsung hero of the civil rights era."
Interview 1:
Colvin at age 15 during the Jim crow era had had enough of segregation and refused to give up her seat one day on an Montgomery Bus in Alabama. She was arrested sparking the events that lead to the Montgomery boycott as we know it.This book was written by a Maine writer. On Feb 25 King invited her to Maine talk to students about her story. This Sunday the Mama Africa show will speak with these students asking them to share their perspectives regarding this project.
Interview 2
We will meet a women who started a fund raising teeshirt project called --"Africa is not a country, it's a continent" (info@africaisnotacountry.com) to help fund a project called Nah We Yone.Nah We Yone (www.nahweyone.org) is an organization that works with displaced Africans in New York city, connecting them to legal and social services to facilitate their adjustment to life in the U.S. She is also the program coordinator for a camp called Fambul Camp, a weekend culture camp for children of African descent ages 5-16 and "Fambul" means Family in Krio, a language spoken in Sierra Leone.
Jack Whitten, Perceptionalist (New York City)
Robert Freeman, Painter (Massachusetts )
Topic: Celebrating African Heritage Month 2009: A contemporary look at African American Artist.
Interviews with:
Topic: Inauguration after party!
Guest: Helen Caddie Larcenia from Washington Maine, Assatha From Bangor Maine, Hashim - Portland Maine from "Freedom through expression"
Topic: The Inauguration show: A time of healing. Barak Obama the 44th President and first African American President & a 80th birthday celebration for the late Dr. Martin King Jr.
Guest: The Black Bird Collective with David Bidler with updates about exiled Maine state prison inmate Deane Rowland Brown.
Topic: The Gaza Occupation Show
Guest: Roy Ghim WMPG community radio "Liberation By Sound" & Wells Staley Mays - Peace Action Maine, Executive committee member, Portland NAACP, Portland Freedom Trails, co- author Maine's Visible Black History.
Topic: What is race? Part II
Host: Lady Soulshine, aka Keita & Nicole Saxon.
Includes: The 15min spotlight with the Black Bird Collective
Topic: Obama's win and feed back from the nation, What happened and how?
Guest:
Topic: Poetry
Guest: Host Hashim - "Freedom Through Expression" with community guest and call in guest poets.
Topic: Get out the Vote
Guest: Portland NAACP chapter President Rachel Talbot & Executive Committee member Wells Staley–Mays and community youth commentaries with Anthony Verrillo (republican) and Walter Phillips (democratic).
Topic: Interracial relationships part 2 and the count down to election with Nichole Saxon, Jude Esty-Kendall & Lady Soul shine: Keita Whitten.
Topic: Interracial relationships, part 1 with Nichole Saxon, Jude Esty-Kendall, Nadia Jackson & Lady Soul shine: Keita Whitten.
Topic: on the MAS we had Nicloe Saxon, Nadia Jackson, Patrica
Howlett and The Rev. Virgina Marie and Lady Soulshine, aka Keita.
Topic: How did i get here:Africans and the making of America. Produced by Affinity Arts. A Dramatic Performance/Art Installation by Victoria Mares Hershey & Stephen Oliver
Interviews following performance night before with cast members Wells Staley Mays, Karl Houston, Keita Annie Whitten, AKA Lady SoulShine & director Victoria Mares Hershey and interview with Keith Potter from the Itals with producer Lady SoulShine
How did i get here:Africans and the making of America. Produced by Affinity Arts. A Dramatic Performance/Art Installation by Victoria Mares Hershey & Stephen Oliver .
Live Cast readings by Patricia Joy Howlett, Karl Houston, Michael Wilson & Keita Annie Whitten with co- Host Ms. Nadia & producer Lady SoulShine