Sunday Calls

This week’s call opens the way most of them do, with a catch-up. Funmi is back in her gym routine, with stretching and a little old-school Yoruba secret. She has just celebrated 27 years of marriage. She also had to replace a house help mid-week, and she decided ahead of time that the change would cost her no stress at all. It didn’t. Fikemi had a good day too. She co-worked with a new friend at a...

In this episode, Fikemi has a friendship on her mind. She met this friend while living abroad, far from home and from everyone she usually leaned on, and within a week or two they had become each other’s whole support system. Now that she’s back in Nigeria, the distance has shown her something she didn’t expect: the closeness doesn’t feel the same on her side as it does on theirs. Funmi responds w...

No big topic this week, just a real Sunday call. Funmi and Fikemi sit down to catch up on the week. It turns out they each had a hard Friday, and each of them chose herself. Fikemi goes first. She got dressed up for a night out, arrived on time, and heard nothing. Then she felt the irritation building. So instead of waiting to be let down a second time, she booked her ride home, took the best self...

In this episode Funmi and Fikemi try something new this week: instead of a planned topic, they pull three questions each from The And, a card game built to spark conversation, and see what surfaces when neither of them knows what's coming. The questions take them from a tender childhood memory of Funmi's late mother, to Fikemi naming the one thing she'd actually change about her mother, to what ma...

In this episode, Funmi walks through the moments that made her realize her baby girl was starting to grow up. She recounts three memories that build from an offhand question in the car to one long weekend that really tested how far her trust would stretch. Starting from a curious "are you having any crushes?" to boarding-house visiting days, watching boys orbit her daughter from a distance, Funmi...

Funmi and Fikemi came into this episode with disagreements prepared, spiritual, emotional, and, fine, a little bit about mini skirts. But their favourite way to disagree has never been about winning the argument—it's hearing each other out earnestly, even when they land on genuinely different views. The biggest one: Fikemi's relationship with God doesn't look like her mother's, and she finally exp...

Crushes, boyfriends, dating apps, and letters versus Instagram follows — Funmi and Fikemi turn their "25 then vs. 25 now" conversation toward love. Funmi looks back on secondary school crushes, being chased (literally) at university, and a courtship that moved from a roadside tire change to marriage — all without ever discussing boyfriends with her own parents. Fikemi unpacks what dating looks lik...

At 25, Funmi was married, independent, and building a life. At 25, Fikemi is navigating a world that keeps moving in ten directions at once. Same age. Completely different context. In this episode, Funmi and Fikemi sit down to compare notes on what being 25 actually looked like — then and now. They get into the economic realities facing young adults today, the weight of a hyper-connected world, th...

After nearly eight years of living away from home full-time, Fikemi moves back in with her family in Lagos—and quickly realizes that coming home isn't as simple as unpacking a suitcase. In this episode, Funmi and Fikemi unpack the emotional reality of living together again as adults: the pressure to "fit back in," navigating independence under your parents' roof, adjusting to a home that has chang...

Welcome to Sunday Calls . In this first episode, we're sharing who we are, how our relationship has evolved over the years, and why we felt called to create a space for honest conversations between Nigerian parents and their children. We talk about the heart behind Sunday Calls , what listeners can expect in future episodes, and our hope that this podcast encourages more meaningful conversations i...