Black Dads Germany

🎙️ EPISODE 3: BLACK DADS DIARIES PODCAST 🎙️ Out now 💜 on your favorite streaming platforms  Meet this episodes guest Keevin Thine. In this episode, Keevin explores vulnerability as an act of kindness to oneself. He shares how fatherhood and his deep bond with his son have opened space for emotional honesty and redefined what positive masculinity means to him. Join us as we explore the deep and beautiful journey of Black fatherhood. 💜 Thanks to @caio.siervi our camera man and editor Check out the Episode on Spotify and YouTube! #BlackDadsDiaries #Fatherhood #BlackFathers #Parenting #RepresentationMatters #BlackDadsGermany #Podcast

EPISODE 2: BLACK DADS DIARIES PODCAST 🎙️ Meet our guest of the month : Peter Kamya, a Ugandan-born, East London-raised father whose journey has been shaped by resilience, loss, and love. The death of his mother, the birth of his daughter, and his move to Germany transformed him into the man he is today—a devoted father and a champion for celebrating differences through his work at @kidsimplyshop. In this episode, we dive into fatherhood, resilience, and the power of representation. Peter opens up about the struggles of integration, the reality of racism, and the importance of kindness in raising the next generation. He shares personal moments of anxiety and triumph, including conquering his fear of skiing! 🎿 Join us as we explore the deep and beautiful journey of Black fatherhood. 💜 A mantra to carry with you: „Confuse your haters with a smile.“ (Peter Kamya) Follow us on Instagram: @black_dads_germany This Podcast is kindly supported by @caio.siervi (Video & Audio) @michaela (Sound) You need more info? www.black-Dads-germany.org

How do you embrace life and spread love after being bullied at 11 for a skin conditions? In this heartfelt episode, Alain talks with Marlon, author of The Sock Snatcher, about toxic masculinity, mental health, absent fathers, and the stigma around illness in Black Communities. Marlon shared how is mother‘s strength and grandmother‘s Love shaped his resilience and happiness. Discover his strategies for emotional well-being, fatherhood, and building a legacy for Black Children. A mantra to carry with you: „Be as bold as Love“ (Marlon Mcdonald) Follow us on Instagram: @black_dads_germany This Podcast is kindly supported by @caio.siervi (Video & Audio) @michaela (Sound) You need more info? www.black-Dads-germany.com

This podcast will explore thoughts, concepts, stories about fatherhood in the context of Black fathers, taking Germany as a locational point of departure. Yet, in line with the exigencies of our time, we hope that our reflection will meander much further and broader while tethering itself to specific references from everyday realities. The central theme (and a running thread) of the first season of the podcast is “nurturing”. We depart from the premise that fatherhood – like its counterpart motherhood – is a concept which embodies the regenerative potentiality of Creation. In other words, it carries within it the pulse of life, where this also means the deep awareness that our present actions are concurrently the future of those who come after us. If it is true that the moment of our birth also sets in motion the process of our death, then our lives do not lend themselves to hoarding but rather, to passing on from one generation to the other. How then might we reflect on nurturing as Black males within the context of Germany and, broadly, the West? The notion of “Blackness” is a construct necessitated by the hegemonic institution of “Whiteness”. Thus, we must remember not to take the word “Black” for more than what it is in the changing times: a word which envelopes so many contradictions and paradoxes of the human condition; working to resolve – through a self-invented process – into a harmonious flow rather than a hitherto schizophrenic conflict. It embodies the disposition of a “new humanity” Frantz Fanon conjures when he speaks of the human who breathes anew, creates new gestures, new respiratory rhythms and whose struggles are transformed into a celebration of imagination. Thus, the crisis is no longer one of identity but rather the challenge of understanding the process(es) by which our identity, imbued with the power of transcendence, morph into various forms of presence(s) as it crosses from one border to the other. It goes without saying that we hope to also problematise the word “Blackness” to such extent as allows for the making of knowledge by which its emancipatory subjectivity can be truly personified by those with the urge and urgency. We want to highlight, through our reflections, a part of Black masculinity languishing in obscurity under the emphasis of its toxic, villainous counterpart. The part of masculinity that knows what it means to be diligent, caring, empathic, sentient, yet disciplined and deliberate because it too received these qualities from the many peoples instrumental in his process of nurturing. Much of the aforementioned qualities are often relegated to motherhood and the feminine. Yet, in the real sense, they are exactly what complicates the notion of gender. The purpose of this podcast is to articulate thoughts around Blackness, masculinity, fatherhood that are as frontal in their address as they are attentive in their critiquing while always keeping in view the wellbeing and future of our children. The introductory episode gives an overview and a hint as to what will follow in the subsequent ones. We shall stretch out our thoughts and inferences about nurturing across the following areas of interest formulated as exploratory questions: How do we understand blackness today? What is nurturing from the standpoint of a black father? What is the place of dreams How do we understand and embody the paradoxes constitutive of the life of a sojourner? What is our position here in the West? What will become the future of our children, and how do cater for their present? What is the identity of our children? A tree does not make a forest: On community and support systems. Yours Black Dads Hosts Alain Missala & Emeke Okereke - Conceived and Produced by Black Dads Germany and Atelier E.K Okereke

In this episode we are joined by Daniel "Kofi" Awenva, a  Clinical Psychologist and a Children Psychotherapist. He is taking us through The Psychological impacts of an absent father in a child's life. Do enjoy the episode. 

In this episode we are joined by Daniel "Kofi" Awenva, a  Clinical Psychologist and a Children Psychotherapist. He is taking us through The Psychological impacts of an absent father in a child's life. Do enjoy the episode. 

On this episode we go deeper into a conversation about our own absent fathers and the impact they left on us. 

On this episode we go deeper into a conversation about our own absent fathers and the impact they left on us. 

This first episode is an introduction to the men behind the podcast and their relationships with their own fathers. We also introduce you to what Black Dads Germany is about.

This first episode is an introduction to the men behind the podcast and their relationships with their own fathers. We also introduce you to what Black Dads Germany is about.

Black Dads Germany is our way of turning the experience of being a Black Father into a positive force.

Connect, Celebrate and Empower Fathers of Color in Germany.