Episode Five: Dinner with the Ancestors

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Jul 16, 201856:06Arts

Kate Denereaz revisits the story of Melusine: a half-woman, half-serpent hiding her curse from her human husband and their children. Leke Oso Alabi brings Menelik I into modern London, asking what the offspring the Queen...

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