NYAC S4 E14: Presidential Aspirations
We chat with Chike Ukaegbu, a 2019 Nigerian presidential candidate, about his path to running a political campaign, his motivations, the cha...
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Not Your African Cliché
Hosted by four Nigerian women, Not Your African Cliché is a podcast that highlights the complex stories of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. Drawing from their experiences on at...
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NYAC S4 E 13: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Reports Our Stories?
On this episode we speak with Oluwatosin Adeshokan, a freelance journalist based in Lagos, Nigeria, about his career trajectory and the curr...
NYAC S4 E12: A Basket Full of Social Impact
On this episode, we chat with Coretta Owusu about Design Dua, her Ghana-based company that makes functional handwoven basketry. She shares t...
NYAC S4 E11: Empathy, What is it Good for?
NYAC S4 E11: Empathy, What is it Good for? On this episode we speak with literature buff, writer and embodiment of Pan-Africanism, Clarisse...
NYAC S4 E10: The Boy Who Harnessed Drones
We talk with Dumi Kaliati, the founder and CEO of a Malawian based health and hardware start up called MicroMek. MicroMek specializes in cre...
NYAC S4 E9: Mauritian Identity
On this episode, we learn about Mauritius and the Mauritian identity from a guest Ms. Axelle Lagaillarde. She educates us about its history,...
NYAC S4 E8: Is this Love that We're Feeling?
It’s February, the month of Love! We share what we consider love to be, how we love, and how we like to be loved. Listen to find out who sho...
NYAC S4 E7: Consent is Mandatory
We begin 2019 with a bang! On this episode we chat with the Oluwaseun Ayodeji, the Executive Director of Stand to End Rape (STER) Initiative...
NYAC S4E6: Issa Nigerian Feast
On this episode, we talk with Ozoz of Kitchen Butterfly, an excellent Nigerian food blog. Ozoz shares her journey to creating kitchen butter...
NYAC S4 E5: Informal Settlements, Inequality and African Cities
We are joined by special guest Wandile Mthiyane (@Wandile7) of Ubuntu Design Group to work through the questions: how did African cities com...
NYAC S4E4: A Tale Of Two Cameroons
On this episode, we talk with a guest from Southern Cameroon, Tabot, about his country's ongoing conflict. Tabot schools us on Cameroon’s hi...
NYAC S4 E3: Ghosts of Colonization Past
We speculate about why some African countries have retained the names given by colonizers, and wonder if name changes have had any effect on...
NYAC S4 E2: Lusophone Africa, We See You
On this episode, the ladies of NYAC chat with the incredible Yovanka Perdigao (one-third of Not Another Book Podcast)about lusophone Africa,...
NYAC S4 E1: I (Wanna) Know What You Did Last Summer
We are back! Listen to us catch up and gist each other (and you!) about our summer. Amayo quit her job in consulting and moved to Mauritius...
NYAC S3 E18: Loud and Wrong
Inspired by Kanye West's latest episodes of being loud and wrong, we unpack our individual shortcomings: what they are, what brought them to...
NYAC S3 E17: History Has Its Eyes On Us (with Wale Lawal)
We talk exploring Nigerian-ness and African-ness through economics, history and art with the “Lean, Mean, Nigerian Machine,” @WaleLawal. He...
NYAC S3 E16: From Theater to Inspector K (with Martin Ayeni)
On this episode, we chat with Martin Ayeni (actor on Inspector K)about his experience transitioning from theater to screen acting; his disli...
NYAC S3 E15: Millennials' Parents Are Hustlers (with Ashley Akunna)
On this episode, we chat with Ashley Akunna (founder and producer of The Grapevine) about the term millennials, characteristics of African m...
NYAC S3 E14: Wakanda Party Is This? Issa Black Diaspora Party! (Part II)
Part II of the episode where we discuss the pop culture phenomenon that is Black Panther. We continue our conversation with @ifeanyiawachie...
NYAC S3 E13: Wakanda Party Is This? Issa Black Diaspora Party! (Part I)
Part I of the episode where we discuss the pop culture phenomenon that is Black Panther. We are about a month late to the party but we here!...