The Our Roots And Routes Podcast dives into the untold realities of migration; identity shifts, cultural adaptation, and what it means to belong away from home

When you get that acceptance letter and book your flight, everyone focuses on logistics, finding classes, setting up bank accounts, and getting your student ID.

But nobody talks about the hidden curriculum: the unspoken classroom rules, the cultural codes everyone else seems to know instinctively, and the loneliness of being the only one who looks like you in the room.

In this intimate open mic session, Dr. Motolani Adedipe and Dr. Otito Iwuchukwu, black women in academics with over a decade and two decades in diaspora respectively, have honest conversations with Black diasporans navigating their first years abroad.