Podcast
Afropolitan
Episodes
- The Dark Truth About Podcasting Nobody Wants To Talk About — Les Alfred
Eight years. A chart-topping podcast. A deal with one of the biggest podcast networks in America. And Les Alfred still asks herself what it was all for. Her words: "I've worked so…
- Nigerian Musician Reveals Why He Couldn’t Leave America — Mannywellz
At 16, Mannywellz went to get his learner's permit. His mom sat him down and told him he couldn't. He didn't have papers. A few years later the college bills came in at $20,000 to…
- Banker-Turned-Afrobeats Star Exposes the Dark Side of Fame — Mayorkun
Mayorkun was two months from being homeless when Mama dropped. The first check from that song went straight to rent. A year earlier he was in a bank's marketing department, opening…
- Building Wealth in Nigeria Is Not What You Think It Is — Bankhead
He had 4 hours to empty a beach club with 5 swimming pools. The bulldozers were already working down the shore. He puts the loss at over ₦2 billion, and says compensation didn't co…
- Nigeria's Banking Problem Is Not What You Think It Is - Olu Akanmu
40 million people have a government ID and no bank account. Olu Akanmu's fix: lock the regulators, the banks and the fintechs in one room and give them 3 months to go and find them…
- The Dark Side of Being Afrobeats’ Most Wanted Director — TG Omori
For six months he lay in a hospital bed while the internet decided he had fallen off. "He doesn't shoot no more." "Nobody rocks with him anymore." "He has outpriced himself out of…
- The Dark Side Of Being A Female Afrobeats Artist Nobody Talks About - Fave
A major label signed her, handed her enough money to go buy a car, and then let her music sit. So she asked to leave. Less than a month after she got out, "Intentions" took off and…
- Dangote Refinery’s IPO Is Not What You Think It Is
The entire stock market of Africa's biggest economy is worth about $114 billion. One refinery just outside Lagos is asking investors to value it at $50 billion. On day one. That is…
- Nigeria's Minister Exposes Why The World Makes Us Look Worse Than We Are - Tunji Alausa
For over 40 years, one problem broke every education minister who walked in before him. Strikes that shut universities for months at a time. Students who started a four-year degree…
- Beauty Founder Exposes What It Takes For A Woman To Build In Africa - Diiadem
She landed in China with $1,500 in her pocket. That money had to cover the flight she had already booked, somewhere to sleep, and the products she came to manufacture. The factory…
- The Dark Side of Afrobeats Nobody Talks About - WurlD
WurlD went digging through his own royalty data and found somebody else's name sitting where his publisher should be. Three, four years of money had already moved. He only caught i…
- Nigerian Fragrance Founder Reveals How She Got into Sephora and Raised $500,000
She spent $225,000 of her own money on a brand that hadn't sold a single bottle yet. Before that, she priced her first fragrance at $250 and the internet came for her. "Who do you…
- Lagos Governorship Candidate Exposes Why He Turned Down MILLIONS!
Everyone believes power in Lagos belongs to one man, that he holds it, transfers it at his pleasure, and there's nothing anybody can do about that. GRV has spent three years trying…
- Billionaire Ex-Gubernatorial Candidate Exposes Why Nigerian Politics Is Rigged
Tonye Cole co-founder of Sahara sit down with Eche Emole and Chika Uwazie, one of Africa's largest energy conglomerates, and a Nigerian politician who walked away from the comfort…
- Preston Ideh: Why Data is the Most Valuable Asset in Africa
Preston Ideh is the co-founder and CEO of Stears, the company building the data infrastructure for African markets (think Crunchbase meets the Bloomberg Terminal, built for Africa)…
- Eni Aluko: How Suing The FA Made Her More Money Than Playing For England
She went from a Birmingham estate to 104 caps for England, qualified as a lawyer at one of the most elite firms in the world, and wrote a six-figure check to prove women's football…
- We Are A Generation Of Influencers, Not Builders
Iyinoluwa "Iyin" Aboyeji helped build two of Africa's most important tech companies — Andela and Flutterwave. Now he's after something bigger: making sure every African can earn at…
- Nelson Mandela's Widow Has One Warning for the Diaspora
Join us for a historic fireside chat with Her Excellency Graça Machel—liberation fighter, former Education Minister of Mozambique, global humanitarian, and the only woman in modern…
- These AI Stocks Could Print Millionaires You're Investing in AI Wrong
She turned $30,000 and one stubborn goal into an eight-figure fortune — then almost lost herself building it. Teri Ijeoma quit her job as an assistant principal, put $30,000 of tra…
- The Hidden Truth About Streaming Money (No One Says This)
YCee disappeared for four years. The story behind why is heavier than anyone knew. In 2020, at the peak of his run — Jagaban everywhere, Juice on every aux, sold-out shows, a sound…
