The Black History Buff Podcast

Proverbs, Myths and Legends: The Big game

Proverbs, Myths and Legends: The Big game

Todays Proverb is an Igbo saying from Nigeria:

 “The big game often appears when the hunter has given up the hunt for the day”

This saying really resonates with me as often I feel called to just quit, to give up and do something easier. 
I can Imagine the hunter, tired, deflated and on the verge of going home empty-handed. When suddenly their prize appears, and they forget about tiredness, hunger, that previous feeling of defeat and now the only thing that matters is overcoming their foe and getting what they came for. 
 
That ability to perform when you're at the end of your strength is what marks people out for greatness. So if you're listening to this.  Don't give up, don't quit, your prize is waiting for you at the end of the day and when you see it YOU WILL have enough strength to bring it back home.

 

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21: Proverbs, Myths and Legends: The Big game

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Black History Buff Blitz: Stage Coach Mary

Black History Buff Blitz: Stage Coach Mary

Mary Fields, later to be known as Stage Coach Mary was born in Hickman County Tennessee at around 1832 
Liberated from enslavement at the end of the American Civil war, Fields headed North working on Riverboats till she eventually found permanent work in an Ohio convent.
Her gruff style and constant cursing raised eyebrows in the quiet convent, and though she faithfully served the nuns, news of her habitual drinking, smoking, shooting guns and wearing men’s clothing. Caused upheaval. 
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20: Kandake Amanirenas - Konquering Queen of Kush

Support the show on Patreon OR Buy me a coffee Show Notes:  This Episode is about an African Queen who defined Rome and carved out a place for herself in...
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19: Black History Buff Blitz: Stage Coach Mary

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Black History Blitz: Cathay Williams Buffalo Soldier

Black History Blitz: Cathay Williams Buffalo Soldier

Today's Black history Blitz is about Cathy Williams. The first African American Woman to enlist in the United States Army and the only one we know about who did so posing as a man!! 
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18: Black History Blitz: Cathay Williams Buffalo Soldier

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Brother Jourdan’s response

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Todays episode features a scathing response to possibly the most Ill advised “take me back” letter ever and some wisdom from an ancient African proverb.

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