Nana Aba Duncan

Plan Podcast for November - Eternia

naba — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:51:23 +0000

Invest in a girl and you can change the world. Recording artist Eternia talks about girls rights and her experience meeting girls across Ontario with the 411 TV: Because I Am A Girl School Tour.

Mama Burger in Marathon

naba — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:19:51 +0000

Being on tour has been amazing. Fun, tiring, and inspiring.

I’m meeting really smart, engaging girls who ask the greatest questions. Like, “why aren’t the boys involved in this presentations?” Or “Why are girls discriminated in the first place - when did it start?”

My tour mates are cool too. Among the five of us, we’ve got careful, excitable (that might be me), stylish, loud (me again), thoughtful, silly… and everyone’s pretty easy going.

We once went through Marathon, Ontario on the way to our stop in Sudbury. I recorded the stop and thought I’d do a mini-piece, rough style without a proper mike. Have a listen:

Plan Canada October Podcast

naba — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:19:16 +0000

I was voicing Plan Canada’s podcasts, and now I edit and produce them. This is the first one, about malaria in Sierra Leone. The next podcast will be about the Girls Rights program, the one I’m hosting with the 411 Initiative for Change.

The Paradigm Project

naba — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:08:22 +0000

The Paradigm Project is a collaborative network that seeks to combat systemic poverty in developing nations. Its first initiative is the Kenya Stove Project. The use of open cooking fires in rural Africa creates several serious problems locally and globally: significant personal health and safety risks to mothers and their children; rapid deforestation of local ecological reserves; and massive cumulative annual carbon emissions outputs into the atmosphere.

The Kenya Stove Project (The Paradigm Project) seeks to significantly mitigate each of these impacts by providing safe, highly efficient wood burning stoves to women and families in rural Kenya.

Neil Bellefeuille is the CEO of The Paradigm Project. I recently worked with him to voice some promotional media he is producing for the Kenya Stove Project.

I was hired through Nobis Interactive.

Plan Canada’s Podcast

naba — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:33:33 +0000

Plan Canada (formerly Foster Parents Plan Canada) has a new online podcast, thanks to its communications department including my friend and eCommunications Manager Jennifer Hollett. Jennifer asked me to host the podcast, which features first person stories and interviews from around the world. The podcast gives donors and anyone interested in Plan a look into its global projects.

The most recent episode features rapper Masia One and her experience with Plan’s programs in Indonesia. Have a look at the Plan Canada website and podcast here. You can also have a listen below.

Sunshine from the UK for Coco&Lowe

naba — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:05:18 +0000

My sister is known as Sunshine by most folks, and she really is that - a happy ray of sunshine.

Living in London, she’s also the UK correspondent for Coco&Lowe’s lifestyle blog. We did a podcast for Coco&Lowe while she was in Toronto and it’s basically our sisterly dynamic in a nutshell. Sunshine is reporting all that’s fashionably awesome for Coco&Lowe, starting with the designs of House of Blueeyes.

Please note, there is a third member of what we call Team Duncan. Her name is Adjoa of prettysweet Custom Cake Creations and she is a sweet-food maker extraordinaire (my personal favourite being her cupcakes).

When she gets in the mix the dynamic is even more enhanced and one day I’ll get her to be on a podcast.

One day.

Ayesha Mansur: Big City Small World on CBC Radio One

naba — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:00:09 +0000

The story of Ayesha Mansur, an actor. She was in New York trying to make it big as a dancer when the twin towers fell. She tells the story of what happened to her life after that.

Soundscape produced in collaboration with Garvia Bailey. Aired on CBC Radio One’s Big City Small World, Saturdays at 5 p.m. EST with host Garvia Bailey.

Harvest Wednesdays at the Gladstone Hotel on CBC Radio One

naba — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:50:05 +0000

In this story I followed Gladstone Hotel chef Marc Breton to Chick-A-Biddy Acres for some fresh produce. The farm and other local producers provide food for the Gladstone Hotel’s Harvest Wednesdays, a seasonal - and delicious - series.

Aired on CBC Radio One’s Here and Now, weekdays at 3 p.m. EST with host Jane Hawtin standing in for Matt Galloway.

Ayelen Liberona: Big City Small World on CBC Radio One

naba — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000

My 5-minute story on Ayelen Liberona, a producer and director who still identifies with being a dancer. In this story you’ll hear how Ayelen moved away from being a professional dancer through her depression and into a new, more fulfilling life path.

Aired on Big City Small World, Saturdays at 5 p.m. EST with Garvia Bailey.

Laughter Yoga

naba — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:43:25 +0000

For Your Relationship Radio, we explored our relationship with laughter and comedy. This is how it went with instructor Wendy Woods at a laughter yoga session. I brought my sisters Sunshine and Adjoa of prettysweet and our friend Catriona of Coco and Lowe. Just try not smiling, I dare you.