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Ebenezer Owoeye, Genesis Studios on its series Tales of Eve about challenges faced by African women

Ebenezer Owoeye, Genesis Studios talks about: what its Tales of Eve TV drama series is about; the new series Legacy that it is trying to get off the ground; and its license to make make the TV format The Price is Right in Nigeria. ... read more
October 25, 2018

Samuel Odeloye and Ladi Ojora, Roadpreppers on Lara, a chatbot to find transport solutions

Samuel Odeloye, CEO and Co-Founder and Ladi Ojara, COO and Co-Founder, Roadpreppers talk about: what the chatbot Lara does; how they source information on transport solutions; where Lara is available; fundraising investment and business model revenue streams. ... read more
September 27, 2018

Adekunle "Nodash" Adejuyigbe on his film The Delivery Boy about a child suicide bomber

Nigerian film-maker Adekunle "Nodash" Adejuyigbe talks about: the story in his film The Delivery Boy; how he uses the film to help him understand the protagonist's motivations; and his next project looking at depression in Nigeria. ... read more
August 16, 2018

Adewale Yusuf, CEO, Techpoint.ng on creating demand for tech use - 10,000 attend 2 of its events

Adewale Yusuf, Founder and Publisher, Techpoint.ng talks about: how he started Techpoint; the monthly reach of the platform and its audiences; the two tech-promoting events it has run; and three exciting things happening in the start-up space in Nigeria. ... read more
August 16, 2018

Aibee Abidoye, 5ive Music on the challenges facing mobile music services in Nigeria

Aibee Abidoye, General Manager, 5ive Music talks about: 5ive Music's role as a distribution platform; the artists it has on the platform; the mobile operators it is working with; the regulatory issues it faces on pricing; and continuing issues around the revenue share with operators. ... read more
August 16, 2018

Dayo Akinrinade & Ray AjikeAjoke on start-up Africlick, a dating app for global Africans

Dayo Akinrinade, Founder and Ray AjikeAjoke, Head of Growth, Africlick talk about: why Dayo Akinrinade launched Africlick; how the app works, the business model for the app and its functionalities; the potential size of the market; the balance of users between Lagos and London; and raising investment. ... read more
July 25, 2018

Ema Edosio on her new film Kasala! about 4 slum brothers who wreck their Uncle's car

Director Ema Edosio talks about: her new film Kasala!; the story of brotherhood in the film; the actors in the film; the lack of a distribution deal; her next film project; and the barriers faced by Nollywood film-makers. ... read more
June 6, 2018

Tope Omotolani and Sola Oyawale, Farmcrowdy on raising diaspora investment for small-scale farmers

Tope Omotolani and Sola Oyawale, Farmcrowdy talk about: how it matches sponsors (investors) to farmers; likely rates of return to investors; what it uses the funds raised for; where it gets investment funds from in the diaspora; trust issues; and how you can invest. ... read more
May 17, 2018

Mbuotidem Johnson, Animation Nigeria on the type of animation work being made in Nigeria

Mbuotidem Johnson, Chief Co-ordinator, Animation Nigeria talks about: what Animation Nigeria is; what kind of animation work studios in Nigeria do; and his own company Basement Animation. ... read more
April 10, 2018

Brian O.Wilson, Zero Gravity Studios on its live action comedy series Relationships

Brian O.Wilson, Zero Gravity Studios talks about: creating a live action comedy series for the DISCOP Mahala TV pitch session in 2017; the story in the Relationships series; and how the Mahala TV pitch went. ... read more
February 17, 2018

Chinedu Azodoh on growing Nigerian logistics and transport start-up MAX

Co-Founder Chinedu Azodoh, MAX talks about: the origins of MAX as a Nigerian start-up; how the founders assumptions changed through piloting the business; going to Techstars in 2015; closing its funding round; adding personal motorbike rides; growing the business; and expanding to other countries. ... read more
January 20, 2018

Seyi Taylor, Big Cabal Media on creating Zikoko, an online media platform for African millennials

Seyi Taylor, Big Cabal Media talks about: how the idea for developing its online platforms came about; the growth of Tech Cabal and how it's monetizing it; the launch of Zikoko; its growth ambitions; and raising capital for growth. ... read more
December 16, 2017

Akin Omotoso on his two new films Vaya and A Hotel Called Memory

Film-maker Akin Omotoso talks about: the three intertwined stories in the film Vaya; the Homeless Writers Project out of which it came; his silent film, tone poem A Hotel Called Memory; and his fortcoming documentary The Colour of Wine about the transition from Apartheid seen through the perspective of 4 Black pioneers in the wine industry. ... read more
November 12, 2017

Inspire challenge entrant Ollie Smeenk, Kukua on getting weather data to African farmers

Ollie Smeenk, Founder, Kukua talks about: how it collects weather information in Nigeria and other African countries; the business model behind Kukua; and its future expansion plans. ... read more
November 12, 2017

Okechukwu Ofili on e-publishing start-up Okada Books, its authors, readers and raising funds

Founder Okechukwu Ofili, Okada Books talks about: why he set up Okada Books; the kinds of readers who are using the platform; the success of self-published romantic and erotic novels; the kinds of authors he wants to attract in the future; and his fundraising round. ... read more
October 3, 2017

Jehiel Oliver, Hello Tractor on how his start-up pivoted from manufacturing to data collection

Jehiel Oliver, CEO, Hello Tractor talks about: how the idea for Hello Tractor came about; why it has pivoted away from making tractors; the software product that allows tractor owners to gather data and use their machines more efficiently; which tractors in Africa and elsewhere it is focusing on; how the company is financed; and the type of data tractors can collect. ... read more
October 3, 2017

Keni Ogunlola on his TV comedy series Lodgers, writing an AY film and working with Mo Abudu

British-Nigerian film-maker Keni Ogunlola talks about: how his pilot for the TV series Lodgers won prizes as a short film; the storyline in the Lodgers series, writing a film for Nigerian comedian AY and working on a film with Mo Abudu. ... read more
August 25, 2017

Michelle Andrade on how Lagos' Workstation helps entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality

Michelle Andrade, Head of Business Development, Workstation talks about: the type of co-working spaces it offers; the additional support services for members; its programme to help start-ups and its expansion plans. ... read more
August 5, 2017

Chika Uwazie on Nigerian HR and payroll start-up TalentBase that is raising US$2 million to expand

Co-founder and CEO Chika Uwazie, TalentBase talks about: how the idea for the company came about; why it's timing was good; how it pays people without bank accounts; how it will get beyond orgaic growth; and its latest fundraising round. ... read more
July 6, 2017

Bunmi Okunowo on the start-ups selected at Start-Up Friday to get seed and accelerator funding

Bunmi Okunowo, National Co-ordinator, Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship talks about: why and how Start-Up Friday was set up; what the events do, the speakers and the numbers attending; the start-ups selected to get seed and accelerator funding; and the franchised roll-out of Start-up Friday across Nigeria. ... read more
September 20, 2016

Chronicles of a Runs Girl blogger Leye Adenle on his first novel, Easy Motion Tourist

Blogger and author Leye Adenle talks about: the plot in his first novel Easy Motion Tourist; how the idea to write it came to him; the idea of decriminalising or legalising prostitution; his Wazobia Report published Chronicles of a Runs Girl; how many people read it online; and how his online writing (Wazobia Report and Auntie Ngozi) led to the print publication of his first novel with Cassava Republic. ... read more
September 4, 2016

Oludotun Babayemi - How Follow The Money uses traditional and online to get Govt to keep promises

Oludotun Babayemi, Co-Creator, Follow The Money talks about: why it was set up and how it works; and gives two examples of working with communities in Northern Nigeria that produced results. ... read more
August 9, 2016

Biola Alabi on her new TV series Bukkas and Joints about making and eating African food

Biola Alabi talks about: how she came to make the programme; the format of the TV series; where the show will be aired; and life after DStv as an independent. ... read more
August 9, 2016

Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola on how Wecyclers is creating a business model for recycling in Lagos

Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, CEO, Wecyclers alks about: how the idea for business started in an MIT class; how the service works; the incentives people receive to recycle; how it works financially for this social enterprise; and her ambitions for the business. ... read more
August 9, 2016

Dr Adejobi Adeloye, NovaDOC on an app subscription service that provides doctors on call

Dr Adejobi Adeloye, NovaDOC talks about: making changes in healthcare in Nigeria; providing a doctors on call platform; and how the service might be used in rural areas. ... read more
July 21, 2016

Jennifer Chizua on launching Startpreneurs, Abuja's first start-up accelerator

Jennifer Chizua, Founder, Starpreneurs talks about: her experiences as an entrepreneur in the UK; what sectors Abuja's first accelerator incubator will focus on; the current portfolio of start-ups; the pipeline for new start-ups; and her partnerships with global accelerators. ... read more
July 21, 2016

Historian Ed Keazor reflects on what happened during the 1966 military coups in Nigeria

Historian Ed Keazor talks about: the two military coups that took place in 1966; who was involved in each of the coups and who was killed; the element of revenge by Northern army personnel; and the creation of a permanent rift in Nigeria in the army and the Nigerian polity. ... read more
May 27, 2016

Abi Adisa, Amara Suites on raising £1 million using the Emerging Crowd platform

Amara Suites CEO and founder Abi Adisa talks about: how it offers serviced apartments; its regional and international ambitions; the quality and services in its apartments; the business model; and raising funds using the Emerging Crowd platform. ... read more
April 27, 2016

Corbyn Munnik on start-up Sliide, an African mobile Flipboard with free data, launched in Nigeria

Corbyn Munnik, CEO and Founder of Sliide talks about: the launch of Sliide in Nigeria; how it delivers content to the mobile home screen; the type of content you can get; how it uses its ad revenues to buy data for its users; how it raised funds in the UK, Nigeria and Silicon Valley for its launch; the attitude of the mobile operators; and the type of local content it offers. ... read more
March 29, 2016

Tech Cabal's Bankole Oluwafemi on making Lagos a Playable City - The Mirror that talks back to you

Tech Cabal's Bankole Oluwafemi talks about: the Playable City scheme it is carrying out with Watershed in Bristol and the British Council; the different projects from the three teams; why Lagosians don't use the many public parks in the city; why the site of some of the projects, Freedom Park, is very different; and how the project might generate a discussion about changing the city. ... read more
March 29, 2016
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