Wandering Through Wisdom

Wandering Through Wisdom

por Amanie Mathurin

Educación Sociedad y Cultura

Temporada 1

We Are One - Caribbean Travel, Self Discovery, & Finding Community with Chineme Ezekwenna

Welcome to Wandering Through Wisdom, with me, Amanie! My guest for this episode is Chineme Ezekwenna, a Nigerian- American woman traveling the Caribbean and discovering community, language, culture, and identity along the way. In this episode, we speak about the unexpected connections to her own heritage, her awareness of social and political realities throughout the region, and some of the lessons that have stayed with her through this very intentional journey.

Remedying Silences- Living History, Archival Gaps & The Caribbean with Lia T. Bascomb

Welcome to Wandering Through Wisdom! My guest today is Lia T. Bascomb, an interdisciplinary black studies scholar and Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Georgia State University. In this episode, we learn about Lia’s research into land ownership, freedom, and diasporic belonging in Barbados. We talk about her journey of exploring these issues by delving into her own family history. How important is living history in remedying archival silences? How can rumour, community stories and family lore fill gaps that archival records simply cannot? And why is it so crucial for Caribbean people to do the work of excavating our past?

Fiction as Warning- Storytelling, Precarity & The Caribbean with Roland Watson- Grant

Welcome to Wandering Through Wisdom! This episode's guest is Jamaican writer Roland Watson- Grant, a recipient of the Musgrave Award for Literature and the 2021 regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In this episode, we speak about fiction as warning- the role and responsibility of the Caribbean storyteller in the face of the region’s continued vulnerabilities. In particular, we focus on his short story Mark Yourself Safe, which takes us inside the mind of a homeless man while Jamaica braced for Hurricane Melissa in October 2025. What does disaster look like for the most vulnerable? What does it mean to give a voice to the most marginalised? And what significance do stories carry in the wake of disaster? You can read 'Mark Yourself Safe' here: https://preelit.com/2025/12/19/mark-yourself-safe/

Life Nice- Gratitude, Taking Leaps & Refusing to Play Small with Zoë Mercedes

Welcome to Wandering Through Wisdom, with me Amanie! My guest for this episode is Zoë Mercedes, a Caribbean woman taking bold leaps and living in her own truth by integrating passion and purpose. Today we talk about gratitude, refusing to play small, everyday acts of resistance, and the relationship between expansiveness and embracing her queer identity.