3 SHORT ITEMS OF VALUE IN 60 SECONDS A WEEK

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SAHĀ QUEST is a vetted global friendship club for digital nomads, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who want deeper relationships, not random meetups. Spend extended time together on international small-group trips and then keep having global dinners and build a community you genuinely want to spend time with—that travels with you. Learn More. 

SEOUL, KOREA is an electrifying city that pulses 24/7, offering everything from serene palaces and mountain temples to neon-lit nightlife and world-class food.  I spent 5 amazing weeks there immersing the Seoul’s legendary hip hop scene–rooted in underground clubs, freestyle battles, and socially conscious lyricism, with artists and collectives shaping a distinctly Korean voice that still dialogues with Black American hip-hop traditions. Seoul rewards curiosity and feels endlessly alive when you dive beneath the surface.

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is a 2025 Iranian drama-thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi about a group of former political prisoners who, after a seemingly minor roadside encounter, believe they have found the man who once tortured them—setting off a tense, morally fraught reckoning with vengeance, justice, and the psychological scars of state brutality. Shot secretly in Iran without official permission (at great personal risk to its director), the film confronts authoritarianism, trauma, and forgiveness. It won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was shortlisted for Best International Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards. Watch the trailer.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a landmark 1972 book by Guyanese historian and activist Walter Rodney that offers a sweeping, meticulously researched historical and political-economic analysis showing how European colonialism, the slave trade, and capitalist exploitation systematically extracted Africa’s human and natural resources to fuel Europe’s rise while stunting African economic and social development — arguing that the “development” of Europe and the “underdevelopment” of Africa are two sides of a single, intertwined system. It has become one of the most influential books in African studies and post-colonial theory, with a new forward by Angela Davis. Buy the book or listen here with trial of Audible.

Learn about African diasporic identity, migration, cultural memory, and building a global Black storytelling project with award-winning journalist Melissa Noel. She reflects on growing up in a Guyanese immigrant home, attending Howard University, the impact of Guyanese scholar Walter Rodney, her first trip to Ghana, and her years living across the Caribbean. She shares stories from hiking Caribbean volcanoes, walking through Montserrat’s buried city of Plymouth, and unpacks the intertwined African and Irish history at Montserrat’s St. Patrick’s Festival. Listen on your favorite platform.

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