THE MMADUU PODCAST

Leon joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series for the final episode. Leon is an award winning author, DEI global speaker and co-founder and chief executive of Black and Irish. He is a mixed race man from Tallaght, Dublin. He was born to an Irish Catholic mother and a Senegalese Muslim father. Leon graduated from Maynooth with a degree in psychology before going on to be Maynoot...

Kamdi joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Kamdi is an aspiring entrepreneur, photographer, and videographer. She previously served as the director and founder of Teen Tate , an organisation whose mission was to initiate conversations amongst young people regarding matters specific to the African continent. The organisation was transformed into the for-profit AFA-AFA, whic...

Tracy joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Tracy born and raised in Uganda and lives in Ireland and was a student at the time of this interview. Tracy has been living in the country for the past 9 and a half years. Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Seunfunmi joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Seunfunmi studied Social Policy and Sociology in UCD and currently work on the Talent, Transformation and Innovation division at IDA. Her interests lie in inclusion and advocacy and sustainable developments. She is passionate about highlighting the fact that sustainability is not exclusive to the environment.  She is a Sp...

Bronagh joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Bronagh is an audio engineer, sound designer and music producer. Bronagh is currently working as a sound technician at NEAR FM and also writes and produces music for herself and other artists. She is from Co. Monaghan and currently living in Balbriggan. She is a proud member of the LGBTQI+ community and is also obsessed with Bru...

Deirdre joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Deirdre Donohue is half German and half Irish, growing up in Berlin until the age of 10 before moving to the Irish countryside with her family. While becoming "more Irish" over the years, she found she could only fully blend in once she started studying in Trinity, in the melting pot of people and cultures, and where - ironicall...

Nadia joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Nadia is a first-generation Irish-Bengali by birth and second generation following on from her Bangali immigrant parents. She studied her bachelors and masters in Ireland before moving to London where she met her husband and ended up staying longer than anticipated. Nadia shares her experience growing up in Ireland and about the p...

Emmanuel joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Emmanuel is an actor and writer born in Nigeria and raised in Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2021 and has since worked on TV shows such as The Dry and Conversations with Friends , and theatre shows such as Tartuffe at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Piaf at the Gate in Dublin. He thinks there's very little...

Niamh joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Niamh was born and raised in Toronto and currently lives in Dublin. She is a first-generation Canadian by birth and second generation following on from her Irish immigrant parents. Niamh shares memories of visiting Ireland while growing up to visit extended family, stories of fairies in Donegal, swimming in the sea, being introduc...

Tobias joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Tobias is a freelance creative from Malahide Dublin who also works as a graphics designer, photographer/videographer and web developer. Tobias is also the creative behind the design of the MMADUU logo and the developer of the mmaduu.com website. Check out his website to find out more. Subscribe to the mailing list on the website...

Marianne joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Marianne opens up about her experience growing up in Dublin, Ireland. Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Adelina joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Adelina is a Romanian based in Ireland and has lived in Ireland for over ten years, after arriving as a teen. Adelina opens up about her experience living and working in Ireland as a Romanian and European. Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

William joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Born in Vietnam, raised in the small town of Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick to a Vietnamese mother and English father. William opens up about his Irish-Vietnamese identity, the challenges he faced growing up, how he overcame it and more. Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Ellie joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. This insightful conversation provides an opportunity to think, engage and learn. You don’t want to miss it. Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Shannen joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Shannen talks about growing up in Derry/Londonderry and shares her hopes for the future of Northern Ireland and across The Island of Ireland. Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Mel joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series . Mel is very dedicated to the radio industry, presenting with NearFm and working with Bauer Media Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Dara joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Dara presents a radio show on Near 90.3FM and can be found on X (formally known as twitter) @DarthDara Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Leah joins The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Leah talks about coming from County Down, Northern Ireland and we discuss some of the complexities of her identity Subscribe to the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Ben joins the show as the first guest on The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series. Ben talks about his early childhood in The Gambia and his insights into politics and society in Ireland Join the mailing list on the website to never miss out on news and updates.

Join in for the exciting launch of a new Podcast Series. The Growing Up On The Island of Ireland Podcast Series will be the first release from The Mmaduu Podcast , where ‘ Mmadu ’ means human, and is dedicated to the theme of identity which is a topic that many people are grappling with. Our identity is constantly evolving and changing, with little awareness and supportive elements that could pote...