DC Public Library Podcast

All Things Local: Diving With a Purpose

Episode Summary

In this episode, host Olubunmi Bakare speaks with Kamau Sadiki. Kamau is a Board of Directors member and Lead Instructor with Diving With A Purpose (DWP), an organization committed to resurrecting the stories of shipwrecks involved in the Transatlantic Era of African Enslavement (TEAE) through maritime archaeology. They discuss his mission to find and document vessels of enslavement.

Episode Notes

In this episode, host Olubunmi Bakare speaks with Kamau Sadiki. Kamau is a Board of Directors member and Lead Instructor with Diving With A Purpose (DWP), an organization committed to resurrecting the stories of shipwrecks involved in the Transatlantic Era of African Enslavement (TEAE) through maritime archaeology. They discuss his mission to find and document vessels of enslavement.

"DESCENDANT" a must-see documentary about the Clotilda descendants now streaming on Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M8ESS9hSAQ

Diving With A Purpose
https://divingwithapurpose.org/

Slave Wrecks Project
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/initiatives/slave-wrecks-project

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