Zuzu Haus

Join Zuzu Haus host and creator Jenné Afiya along with special guest Niki Franco a Miami-based caribbean abolitionist, community organizer, multi-disciplinary cultural worker, writer, podcaster, and facilitator of spaces for collective study. Niki seeks to disrupt the bureaucratic frameworks of academy and transactional ways in which relationships exist under capitalism, Niki's work experiments with truth-telling, radical history and thought, and revolutionary imagination. Usually each episode has a "theme" but this conversation took on more of a freeform flow - both of us digging into our own personal histories around land, ancestry, and legacy.  // You can learn more about Niki's work at www.venusroots.com You can also follow Niki on Instagram @venusroots  Click here to listen to Niki's podcast "Getting To The Root of It" //  Podcast Produced + Edited by Queen Dejean  Original Score Written + Composed by Brandon Woody and Troy Long - Produced by Neon June exclusively for Zuzu Haus  //  More content and good energy over on Instagram @zuzu_haus!

Join Zuzu Haus host and creator Jenné Afiya along with special guest Savannah Wood, an artist and cultural organizer whose work explores "uncovering obscured histories and tapping into ancestral magic...". During our conversation we got to dig into her work as the Executive Director of Afro Charities & the Archives Director for the legendary AFRO American Newspapers - discussing how to build your your own archive, what it means to be an heir to a "legacy", and also the joys of fresh cucumbers.  You can learn more about Savannah and her work at www.savannahwood.info  To learn more about The AFRO and support it's preservation visit afrocharities.org and you can follow their journey on @afrocharities! // Podcast Produced + Edited by Queen Dejean Original Score Written + Composed by Brandon Woody and Troy Long - Produced by Neon June exclusively for Zuzu Haus // View this weeks "recipe" plus more content and good energy over on Instagram @zuzu_haus!

Join Zuzu Haus host and creator Jenné Afiya along with special guest Mariama Bramble, a self-described "homemaker + drunken alchemist + plant addict" as the pair talk plants, heirlooms, and how the Black home is more of a "feeling" than a certain set of objects or pieces! And of course this couldn't be "The Liquor Cabinet" episode if the two didn't answers to the age old question - Crown Royal or Hennessy! You can learn more about Mariama and her work at www.brownbelle.com - follow her journey on Instagram at @brownbelle // Podcast Produced + Edited by Queen Dejean Original Score Written + Composed by Brandon Woody and Troy Long - Produced by Neon June exclusively for Zuzu Haus // View this weeks "recipe" plus more content and good energy over on Instagram @zuzu_haus!

Join Zuzu Haus host and creator Jenné Afiya along with special guest Nicole Crowder of Nicole Crowder Upholstery for a dive deep into the memory of objects, when minimalism "ain't your ministry", The Imitation of Life, the sofa's of their youth, and more as the pair explore one of the centers of life (and even death) in our homes - The Living Room.  You can view and purchase Nicole's work at www.nicolecrowderupholstery.com - follow her journey on Instagram at @nicolemcrowder // Podcast Produced + Edited by Queen Dejean Original Score Written + Composed by Brandon Woody and Troy Long - Produced by Neon June exclusively for Zuzu Haus // View this weeks "recipe" plus more content and good energy over on Instagram @zuzu_haus!

Happy New Year Y'all! Join Zuzu Haus host and creator Jenné Afiya along with special guest Juju Bae of A Little Juju Podcast as they discuss their family histories, collective love of Baltimore, and the legacy of Hoodoo in the Black home - especially when it comes to keeping clean and bringing in a new year.  // More Info on High John | High John the Conqueror is THAT N*gga by A Little Juju Podcast  Conjac x Conjure by Myseha Worthington  More New Year's Hoodoo Tips from Juju Bae // "Zuzu Haus Theme" by Brandon Woody and Troy Long - Produced by Neon June  Produced + Edited by Queen Dejean  // Join us over on Instagram @zuzu_haus for more content and of course a great kiki!

In this second "mini-sode", Zuzu Haus host and creator Jenné Afiya share's the importance and meaning behind the "recipe" segment of the show along with what the expect in the coming weeks ahead - including the announcement of the show's first guest Juju Bae! Materials Referenced | Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor and My Soul Looks Back by Jessica B. Harris View this weeks "recipe" plus more content and good energy over on Instagram @zuzu_haus! Produced + Edited by Queen Dejean Theme Music "Coast" by Queen Dejean

In this inaugural "mini-sode" of Zuzu Haus host and creator Jenné Afiya tells us how this project that is "equal parts essay, journal, and kiki" came to be and what's in store for the season ahead.  Sharing her personal histories and sources of inspiration for this evolving deep dive into "how we do home".   Indigenous Land Identifier (US only)  "In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life" by bell hooks | Full Essay  Much thanks and gratitude to to BLACK ARCHIVES  Want more Zuzu Haus? Join us over on Instagram @zuzu_haus for more content and good energy!  Produced + Edited by Queen Dejean Theme Music "Coast" by Queen Dejean