Afropolitan 🅰️🌶
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Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives.
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Vusi Thembekwayo speaks on the growing tension between South Africans and Nigerians
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶171,330 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
David Oyelowo's mother lived in one bedroom in Lagos with 5 people. Dreamed of her Mercedes for decades. Got a brain aneurysm the day they moved into their Hollywood home. She prayed Selma into existence. Never saw him become MLK. This is timeline grief, when success arrives after the witness leaves.
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶238,500 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
Being “too much” is a real dating filter—and Eni doesn’t shrink to fit. Two Ivy League degrees, a law career, and 400K people watching her every move. She opens up about what it looks like to be a successful woman navigating modern dating. Do you think being “too much” actually limits your options, or just filters for the right ones?
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶72,204 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
$700 for a brand deal. Her management renegotiated: $7,000. Same creator. Same brand. 10x difference. Eni Popoola went from Harvard → Columbia Law → Big Law → full-time creator. We talked about why culture is the leverage Black people keep undervaluing. New episode 🎙️🔗
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶58,237 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Africa isn't a 1.4 billion person market. It's 50 million people surrounded by 1.35 billion dreams. After processing $1B monthly, Tayo Oviosu revealed why most African startups die: They're building for customers who don't exist yet. The math that changes everything:
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶72,478 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Tayo Oviosu Tayo Oviosu 🗽 built Paga into a $1B monthly processor while others chased headlines. 16 years. 23 million customers. 200,000 jobs created. "The earning power of Nigerian consumers is much lower than it seems publicly. This is a longer play than anyone admits." His approach: Patient capital over quick exits. Infrastructure over hype. Community agents over pure digital. Tayo Oviosu 🗽 Paga Group Ltd
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶68,708 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Afrobeats artists have priced themselves out of the fans who made them. The people who streamed you from day one can't afford your show anymore. Tobi Mohammed 👳🏾♂️ Tobi Mohammed built Mainland Block Party to 38,000 tickets — and still keeps cocktails at ₦5,000. New episode. Link below.
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶23,071 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Nigeria just opened its biggest refinery. Then imported engineers from India to run it. Not because we lack intelligence — because we lack know-how. Andrew Alli on the skills crisis nobody wants to talk about. #AfropolitanPodcast #Nigeria #Dangote #Engineering #AfricanDiaspora
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶26,000 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Tracy Nwapa walked away from ₦640M in revenue. She built Slice & Pavilion into Lagos nightlife institutions. December 2023 was her peak - everyone called her the unofficial mayor of Lagos. By February 2024, she was gone. A thread on rebuilding from zero 🧵
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶35,925 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
$750K → $40 million in 6 years. This week, Mono exited to Flutterwave for $30M. Same investor behind both: Ibrahim Sagna. 10 exits. Flutterwave at 24x. Lemfi at 29x. Moove at 5.1x. His thesis on Africa changed how I think about investing 🧵 Ibrahim Sagna IN THE VALLEY
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶29,618 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten