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In The Telling: Black Family Podcast
This season, there is no single storyline or theme, just an open table where memory meets meaning and where telling becomes a way to keep and hold one another. As always, we span the global black world with intimate conversations about family, whether blood or chosen. Our guests share the stories, objects, and rituals that hold their lives together, from migration and matriarchs to recipes, photos, and hard-won truths.
Contact us if you would like to be a guest on the show.
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Original music by Sean Bempong
Season 5
In this season’s premiere episode of In the Telling, Miranda Mims and Steven G. Fullwood speak with renowned Zimbabwean scholar, archivist, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and author Joyce Jenje Makwenda, whose four decades of work document Zimbabwe’s early urban life through music, women’s histories, and community storytelling.
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Raised by six parents across Gwatemba, Bulawayo, and Mbare, Joyce reflects on her grandparents’ house of ancestors and the kitchen as a sacred space built by women—where storytelling, childbirth, and remembrance intertwined to preserve family and culture. She traces how memory travels from pre-colonial hearths to township streets where jazz played by the gate, revealing how home, heritage, and everyday acts of resilience shape collective history. Her message is clear and enduring: “Documentation, documentation, documentation.”
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Selected Music from the album Four Daughters: Muchato Kumusha
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To learn more about our guest and her work, check out the following links:
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​Unpacking significance of the kitchen: https://www.heraldonline.co.zw/unpacking-significance-of-the-kitchen/
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​Zimbabwe Township Music Documentary: https://youtu.be/K-IAOlM250g?si=qKxxC7YJQfH3l4A1