A completely net zero African City, African artists struggling to tour and the potential downfall of Netflix...
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A Recap
Lets Get Litical is a political and philosophical podcast streaming in most places you go to to catch up with your fave podcasts. The podcast belongs to the wonderful Helen Femi Williams and is run by her alongside a very small team! We have Hannah as Producer, Yelz our wonderful audio guy and me (Shannon) who helps with the socials and is now doing the newsletter! I’ve been running the socials for a bit now on Insta and LinkedIn, but we felt that a newsletter would be a far better way to reach out and share the info we want to share. So! Here we are!
Each podcast episode is split into parts. We have ‘It’s Lit’. A section dedicated to some ‘lit’ news in the past week or that has suddenly re-entered the zeitgeist and deserves a mention. We then have ‘Unfortunate News’. This section is how it sounds and is dedicated to a bit of sad, frustrating, or downright outrageous news. And then we finally have the ‘Things We Won’t Care About Next Week’ section. This section is far more lighthearted and briefly covers what I think of as a bit of random news that has occurred during the week. Whilst the section title makes it sound like the topic is completely pointless, it’s usually fairly interesting, humorous or poignant in some form!
And each week this is exactly what this newsletter will cover! Alongside any important celebrations or days that deserve some recognition. We try to cover topics that not so many people are discussing and the stories come from all across the globe. Bear in mind that whilst I try to use a variety of online resources, each and every source I use had it’s own motivations and bias!
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It’s Lit!
A new AI powered robot is on track to take over plant inspections at farms!
A team of researchers have discovered 100 new geoglyphs (“A large-scale drawing or image made on the ground by arranging lines of stones, scratching the earth, etc.,” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geoglyph ) in Peru. This adds to the growing history of Peru and humankind.
The UK has banned conversion therapy, including in relation to trans people!
Unfortunate News…
An African DJ has been denied transit through Amsterdam causing her to miss the Terra Sagrada festival in Cape Verde. Emma Nzioka’s story echoes thousands of other African artists trying to share their music around the world by touring. It’s a clear cut example of the racism shown towards all POC when travelling abroad.
Things We Won’t Care About Next Week!
A man created a fake restaurant that became the number 1 restaurant in London.
The fungus in the new TV show (based from the video game) The Last of Us is actually real and can take over the bodies of ants and other bugs.
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