What’s In An Accent with Lupita Nyong’o [VIDEO]

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Lupita Nyong’o joins Trevor and Christiana to discuss her new podcast and its colorful stories of the African diaspora. The three also discuss their multifaceted identities, why Lupita refuses to expect rejection, and get into a debate for the ages–can they crown a “best” African country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I mean there was a time when I was like obsessed with Lincoln Park
0:06.8	Wow and nobody that is freedom and you know yes that's the devil's music
0:12.1	where I'm from.
0:13.6	Anything that involved in electric guitar
0:16.2	in my mother's house was the devil.
0:18.7	I remember in church, you know, we go to Sunday school,
0:21.9	and then like, so I'll go to different churches, so it's like, you know we'd go to Sunday school and then like so I'll go to different churches so it's like you know the
0:24.8	the African church was just very simple you its church and hymns and choirs and everything
0:29.1	and then we would go to like you know the white part of it like that that was the church and was more more like
0:34.5	organized and even when they would tell stories about like the devil like
0:38.4	remember the story when Jesus is fasting
0:40.7	he's just like yeah and then he gets tempted and then they'd be like, and then Satan appeared.
0:45.3	Yeah!
0:46.3	And like literally like when you say Lincoln Park, I'm like, wow wow you really did have a free life pizza
0:54.4	You really were free I was reading
0:56.4	I was free wow
1:15.0	This is what now with Trevanoa. Hi, how you did it? Hi, how you did?
1:17.0	I'm well.
1:18.0	How are you?
1:19.0	Good pizza, nice to meet you.
1:20.0	Um... you. Um, Lupeza, of all the reasons I thought I'd be chatting to you on the podcast.
1:30.0	An African podcast is the last thing I would have thought of and it's honestly my favorite conversation to have
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