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Selam & Hello

Selam & Hello

著者： Lilly Bekele-Piper
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Selam & Hello is a show featuring stories of joy and justice from Africa and the diaspora. Produced in Kenya for global audiences - Selam & Hello curates conversations on identity and culture that inform, entertain and uplift.© Lilly Bekele-Piper 社会科学
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  • African Parenting Wins and Fails | Blame or Claim Game

    African Parenting Wins and Fails | Blame or Claim Game
    2026/09/30
    Does your face light up when your child walks into the room? Lilly and her husband, Dr. Ben Piper, reflect on parenting while playing 'Blame or Claim', a game about the wins they'll take credit for and the fails they'll pin on someone else (her? him?).Lilly and Ben have raised four children in Nairobi, between Ethiopian and Black American traditions. In a rare episode with Lilly in the guest seat as well as the host's, the producers read a card and the couple point: at themselves to claim it, at each other to blame. Who was the easy parent? Who let the kids stay home "sick"? Who threatened to send them back home to Gojjam?The answers are funny and unguarded. Calm sports parent or crazy? You decide: while Ben knows the basketball rulebook well enough to cite it to referees, Lilly calls everything traveling - and every referee in Nairobi knows them both by name. Term breaks meant "Piper Academy": reading, maths and writing, with mixed results. And their kids' friends certainly feared one and loved the other…can you guess who? Then the game turns tender. Lilly reflects on how raising sons revealed how tender the male psyche is, and on Toni Morrison's question about whether your face lights up for your child. At 50, she says, her mother still beams every time she sees her. Ben describes how watching his daughters make their own choices changed how he sees his own mother, and the dreams she held before the decisions she made.What did your parents get right, and what are you choosing to leave behind? And how often do we take the time to ask the questions that might illuminate those important answers. In this episode:🏀 The calm sports parent versus the one every Nairobi referee knows by name🌍 Culture cards: "Auntie," not first names, and the Amharic and Kiswahili that slipped📱 Reading your children's messages, and why you shouldn't go mining for trouble💛 What raising sons and daughters taught them about their own parentsChapters:0:00 Coming up0:45 Welcome to Selam & Hello1:35 How do you play Blame or Claim?2:34 Who was the easy parent?3:54 Should you give your kid a free sick day?4:30 Who is the calm sports parent?6:12 Can children call adults by their first name?8:07 Did we let Amharic and Kiswahili slide?9:24 Would we really send them back home?11:08 Who fell asleep at the school play?13:01 Should you read your children's messages?16:18 What does raising sons teach a mother?17:38 What does a daughter teach you about your own mother?19:49 What are we proudest our children got from us?21:11 What are we sorry they got from us?Learn more:Dr. Ben Piper on LinkedIn: / benjamin-piper-42a89a32 Gates Foundation: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Selam & Hello is a Pan-African storytelling platform where Africa and her diaspora come to think, reflect and be heard.Find us: https://linktr.ee/selamandhelloWebsite: https://www.selamandhello.com/Instagram / YouTube: @selamandhelloEmail: lilly@selamandhello.com | producer@selamandhello.comMusic Credits: Selam & Hello Jingle by Silas PiperAll platforms @silaspiper / / @silaspiper
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    22 分
  • Raising Kids Between Two Worlds | Modern African Parenting with Dr. Ben Piper (&Lilly!)

    Raising Kids Between Two Worlds | Modern African Parenting with Dr. Ben Piper (&Lilly!)
    2026/09/16

    What does it take to raise four children across two continents, and still like each other at the end of it?


    In this deeply personal Selam & Hello original, Lilly invites her husband of 27 years, Dr. Ben Piper, into the studio for an honest, funny and tender conversation about modern(ish?) African(ish?) parenting. After 24 years of raising four children and two decades on the continent, the two reflect on what they got right, what they got wrong, and what they are still figuring out.


    This isn't an advice episode. Questions drawn blind from a bowl, many sent in by listeners, turn the interview into a true co-hosted conversation. Lilly and Ben ask each other about raising a child with dyslexia, and about breastfeeding twins in graduate school with no kitchen sink. They cover parenting with behaviorism, and the emotional decision to stay in Kenya while all four children eventually moved to the US.


    The conversation also goes to harder places: the risks Black sons face in the United States, femicide and gender-based violence in Kenya, and Lilly's experience of postpartum depression in a time when few rarely talked about maternal mental health. Through it all runs a family philosophy that Lilly and Ben still live by: no credit, no blame - and love in it all.


    In this episode:

    📚What raising a child with dyslexia taught a literacy expert that the research never did

    🗣️How to advocate for your child at school by setting the bar before teachers set it for you

    👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Four kids, twins and grad school: why community made all the difference

    🌍Staying in Africa while the children built lives in America: did they win the argument?

    💛Mental health, postpartum depression and letting children see their parents cry

    🏡Empty nest, grown-up children and grandparent names (it's Lulu or nothing!)



    About Dr. Ben Piper

    Dr. Benjamin Piper is the Director of Global Education at the Gates Foundation, based in Nairobi, where his work focuses on foundational literacy and numeracy. He has spent his career helping children learn to read across Africa and holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He is also, as he'll tell you, the second-most memorable parent.




    Learn more:


    • Dr. Ben Piper on LinkedIn: https://ke.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-piper-42a89a32
    • Gates Foundation: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/


    Selam & Hello is a Pan-African storytelling platform where Africa and her diaspora come to think, reflect and be heard.


    • Find us: https://linktr.ee/selamandhello
    • Website: https://www.selamandhello.com/
    • Instagram / YouTube: @selamandhello
    • Email: lilly@selamandhello.com | producer@selamandhello.com


    Music Credits: Selam & Hello Jingle by Silas Piper

    All platforms @silaspiper / https://www.youtube.com/@SilasPiper
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    45 分
  • The Politics of Water: Dr. Anna Msigwa on Drought, Climate, and the Future of Food

    The Politics of Water: Dr. Anna Msigwa on Drought, Climate, and the Future of Food
    2026/08/12
    #ClimateAction #SelamAndHello #LivingWithTheLand #PoliticsofWaterIn this final conversation for Selam & Hello's Living With the Land series, Dr. Anna Msigwa traces the path that led her into hydrology, climate adaptation, and agricultural water management. Based at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania and also serving as a Research Associate at the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center, Anna works at the intersection of water, climate, agriculture, and resilience.Anna reflects on growing up in southern Tanzania, where water was both abundant and scarce, and how those early experiences shaped her understanding of water as a precious resource. She shares how a research project in the Pangani Basin and a conversation with a farmer who thought underground water was endless pushed her to pursue a PhD focused on sustainable water use and evidence-based decision-making for farmers, policymakers, and water managers.The conversation also explores how climate change is already reshaping agriculture, why co-design with farmers is essential, and what practical innovation could look like in the years ahead. Anna's vision for 2050 is clear: localized early warning systems that speak to farmers in their own languages, on their mobile phones, alongside smarter small-scale irrigation systems that reduce dependence on rainfall and strengthen resilience.This episode asks a simple but urgent question: what does it really mean to steward water well, and how can science help us live with the land more wisely?In this episode: 💧How growing up in Tanzania shaped Dr. Msigwa's curiosity about water, agriculture, and climate resilience. 💧Why water is never abstract — and how sustainable management depends on knowing what is available, what is being used, and what is being saved. 💧How farmers are already adapting to drought and climate shocks 💧What Dr. Msigwa hopes agriculture could look like by 2050This episode is part of Living with the Land, a special series from Selam & Hello in partnership with the Australian High Commission in Kenya, exploring the people and ideas shaping the future of agriculture across Africa.About Dr. Anna Msigwa: Dr. Anna Haji Msigwa is a hydrologist, climate adaptation expert, and lecturer at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania. Her work sits at the intersection of water, agriculture, climate resilience, remote sensing, and AI, with pioneering research in the Pangani River Basin and on AI-powered drought early warning systems. Learn more: Research Associate Anna Msigwa Returns to WRRC https://wrrc.arizona.edu/news/research-associate-anna-msigwa-returns-wrrcThe Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST)https://nm-aist.ac.tz/Australian High Commission Kenya: https://kenya.highcommission.gov.au/Selam & Hello is a Pan-African storytelling platform where Africa and her diaspora come to think, reflect and be heard.Find us: https://linktr.ee/selamandhelloFollow Selam & Hello:Instagram / / selamandhello YouTube / @selamandhello / @selamandhello Website https://www.selamandhello.com/ Email us at: lilly@selamandhello.comproducer@selamandhello.com Music Credits: Selam & Hello Jingle by Silas PiperAll platforms @silaspiper / / @silaspiper#SelamAndHello #LivingWithTheLand #AfricanAgriculture #FoodSystems #ClimateAction #AustraliaInAfrica
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    49 分
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