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Afropolitan

Afropolitan 115 Episodes Sep 16, 2026

The Afropolitan Podcast, hosted by Chika Uwazie and Eche Emole, explores the soul of the African diaspora. Each week, they sit down with founders, culture-shapers, and bold thinkers to discuss grief, growth, legacy, power, and identity. The podcast is part of Afropolitan, a movement building a digital nation for Africans and the diaspora through culture, capital, and code.

Episodes

The Dark Side Of Being A Female Afrobeats Artist Nobody Talks About - Fave
The Dark Side Of Being A Female Afrobeats Artist Nobody Talks About - Fave Sep 16, 2026 3963 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 it hasn't slowed down since. Fave doesn't dance around why she walked. "What I want as an artist from my label is the money to market my music," she says. "I don't think they truly understand how things work here in Afr
Dangote Refinery’s IPO Is Not What You Think It Is
Dangote Refinery’s IPO Is Not What You Think It Is Sep 9, 2026 4161 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 one company reaching for almost half of a whole national exchange, and it just opened its doors to outside money through a private placement that raised billions. So we brought in someone who actually builds the rails f
Nigeria's Minister Exposes Why The World Makes Us Look Worse Than We Are - Tunji Alausa
Nigeria's Minister Exposes Why The World Makes Us Look Worse Than We Are - Tunji Alausa Sep 2, 2026 6506 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 with no idea when they would actually graduate. He says it took one president and a handful of honest meetings to end it. When his team asked the president to approve a 40% salary increase for academic staff, he thought
Beauty Founder Exposes What It Takes For A Woman To Build In Africa - Diiadem
Beauty Founder Exposes What It Takes For A Woman To Build In Africa - Diiadem Aug 26, 2026 4747 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 told her the minimum order was 12,000 pieces. She stayed anyway. She paid a $1,000 deposit on a $6,000 order, called her cousin and her father from a hotel room until they sent what they could, and flew back to Lagos sti
The Dark Side of Afrobeats Nobody Talks About - WurlD
The Dark Side of Afrobeats Nobody Talks About - WurlD Aug 19, 2026 3758 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 it because he knew what to look for. Back in 2015 he started showing Nigerian producers how to register their records properly. IPI numbers, publishing splits, performing rights organizations, all of it. "I made some enem
Nigerian Fragrance Founder Reveals How She Got into Sephora and Raised $500,000
Nigerian Fragrance Founder Reveals How She Got into Sephora and Raised $500,000 Aug 12, 2026 5257 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 think you are? You're not Gucci. You're not Creed." Her team told her the price is the price. She sold out, did over a million dollars in six months, and people started reselling the bottles on eBay for $600. Funmi Monet
Lagos Governorship Candidate Exposes Why He Turned Down MILLIONS!
Lagos Governorship Candidate Exposes Why He Turned Down MILLIONS! Aug 5, 2026 7130 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 to prove that's a myth. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV) is an architect, activist, and the ADC's gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State, one of the most recognizable political figures of his generation. He took his 2023 e
Billionaire Ex-Gubernatorial Candidate Exposes Why Nigerian Politics Is Rigged
Billionaire Ex-Gubernatorial Candidate Exposes Why Nigerian Politics Is Rigged Jul 29, 2026 5924 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 of the private sector to run for office. An architect by training who started out making models for cash in his university years, he went bankrupt overnight when a new administration cancelled every contract his young co
Preston Ideh: Why Data is the Most Valuable Asset in Africa
Preston Ideh: Why Data is the Most Valuable Asset in Africa Jul 22, 2026 4457 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). A UK-qualified lawyer who walked away from big law, moved back to Nigeria, and bet everything on one idea: information is power, and Africa is dangerously under-documented. In this episode we get into why data is "stru
Eni Aluko: How Suing The FA Made Her More Money Than Playing For England
Eni Aluko: How Suing The FA Made Her More Money Than Playing For England Jul 15, 2026 6199 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 is an investable asset. But Eni Aluko's story was never just about sport. In this episode, Eche and Chika sit down with Eni Aluko — former England and Chelsea striker, qualified solicitor, sporting director, and investo
We Are A Generation Of Influencers, Not Builders
We Are A Generation Of Influencers, Not Builders Jul 8, 2026 7553 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 least $10,000 a year by leveraging AI. In this episode, Iyin sits down with Eche and Chika to break down why "investing is for lazy people," the two competing visions of the future (America vs. China), why the real orig
Nelson Mandela's Widow Has One Warning for the Diaspora
Nelson Mandela's Widow Has One Warning for the Diaspora Jul 3, 2026 5226 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 history to serve as First Lady of two nations. Three days before the first G20 Summit ever held on African soil, this conversation couldn't be more timely. As world leaders gather in Johannesburg, we're asking the uncom

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