{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Inherited Boxes: How We Learned to Divide","description":"In this episode, Awa Sow sits down with poet and community organiser Binta Yade to unpack the boxes we inherit: gender, sexuality, ethnicity, identity, and the binaries that shape how we understand ourselves and one another. Together, they explore the colonial roots of many of these categories, from the imposition of Western ideas in Sub-Saharan Africa to the ways identity is navigated across the diaspora. Through personal reflections and wider conversations around belonging, they ask what happens when we stop seeing identity as fixed and begin questioning the lines we’ve learned to live within.\n\nREFERENCES\nOyewumi, O., 1997. The Invention of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.\nMamdani, Mahmood. \"What is a tribe.\" Lond. Rev. Books 34 (2012): 20-22.\nYade, Binta. Homophobia in Sub-Saharan Africa: The B*stard Child of the West. Edited by Kia Kiasuka-Kiakanda. Google Doc. Accessed June 25, 2026. Google Doc\n\nJINGLE\n“Niamey Nights”, Bamako Bae, Shutterstock, ⁠⁠https://www.shutterstock.com/music/track-1221135-niamey-nights⁠ (https://www.shutterstock.com/music/track-1221135-niamey-nights)\n\nCONTRIBUTORS\nHost: Awa Sow\nGuest: Binta Yade\nEdited by: Awa Sow","author_name":"Diaspora Diaries","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166886-diaspora-diaries","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43715594/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}