Podcast Chronicles the Black Experience in Hong Kong and Asia
Marta Colombo
HONG KONG – "If you had a time machine, would you go into the past or into the future?" asks hosts Marie-Louisa Awolaja and Folahan Sowole, aka "Lou" and the "Fantastic Fo," to one of their interviewees on a recent episode of their podcast, HomeGrown. "Black people have suffered enough in the past, what am I going to do back there? There's nothing there for us, I'm going into the future," guest Katakyie Ofori-Atta answers while laughing. "That's optimistic," says Sowole, also laughing.
The exchange encapsulates the lighthearted approach to discussing serious topics in HomeGrown, which British-Nigerian millennials Awolaja and Sowole recently launched in Hong Kong to create a platform to inform and inspire the Black expatriate community in the city.