When Everything Changed (WEC)

Millions of Nigerians are living this exact configuration right now. Their family is in one country. Their work — their anchor — is in another. Most of them are doing it without a framework. Without anyone naming what it actually costs or what it actually gives. Adewunmi Adeshina is one of them. He left Nigeria for the UK to pursue his MBA while continuing to build Trade Lenda in Lagos. Night flig...

From the outside, the trajectory looks clean. Global roles. Ecosystem building. Leadership. But Fola Olatunji-David sat down and told the truth. Three layoffs — all in May, three years in a row. A move back to Nigeria that cut his income to 15% of what it was in England. Triplets. An identity built in public that didn't always match the man living it privately. And through all of it, a question he...

What does it actually take to build something in Africa before there is a map? Gerald Black has been a founder, an operator, an acquiree, and now an ecosystem storyteller. In this conversation he traces the full arc. From watching The Social Network in 2014 and building iFIX, to getting Parkit acquired, to a December 2023 trip to Nairobi that changed everything. At an ecosystem summit in Kenya he...

This conversation isn’t about getting rich, buying property, or giving financial advice. It’s about responsibility, the kind that stretches quietly over years. In this episode of When Everything Changed (WEC), I sit down with Adedeji Ajadi. In one single phrase, during the conversation he said in passing: “not too long.” Behind those words sat six years of steady commitment and a window into how w...