Nov 3, 2023
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