Think BIG for Africa Podcast

Education is the number one tool for individual, and communal change and progress. In this conversation, my guest is a brilliant gentleman, Amu Ogbeide. An ex-Banker, social Entrepreneur, Investor, who has found his calling as a teacher. He is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Sapphital Learning Inc . I have a vision that to build and developed Africa, learning and education need to be more s...

Money, Money, Money! One of the most useful but yet misunderstood. We spend years in school just to learn how to earn money, but over 95% of people do not still understand money. What it is, where it comes from, how to keep it, and how to use it properly. This is one reason why many of us struggle through life. In this conversation, I will be speaking with a former senior colleague; Hetty Ugboh wh...

Africa has a rich, deep, and diverse history that is mostly hidden to the majority of Africans; old and young. My guest in today's conversation, Hon. Kojo Yankah (@Duakwa) wants to share the diverse African stories in a Pan African Heritage Museum . Hon. Kojo Yankah wants to change the uncomplimentary western narrative of African history by bringing together the real Pan-African history by Af...

SMEs are vital to any economy, they are major employers of labour across Africa and the world. However, most SMEs in Africa do not grow beyond one individual or survive to maturity. My guest in this conversation; Ibrahim Bashir (@ibbash) has built a solution to help SMEs with one of the most problematic issues that they face: Income and Expenditure Management . Ibrahim and his partners are trying...

This episode is especially for African youths who are interested to build NGOs to solve problems in their communities. My guest is Wale Osofisan (Ph. D.) ; Senior Director - Governance Technical Unit at International Rescue Committee. He has been delivering value in this sector for over twenty years. In this conversation, Wale talked about the many roles, and benefits of NGOs in society, as well a...

I had an interesting, educational, analytical, and many times a comedic conversation with Economic & Political Analyst Gbolahan Olojede.  We discussed several topics from Politics, Health Care, Education, Science.  A spectrum of issues across Nigeria’s economic, political, leadership, and governance arena. I laughed so many times that it seemed we were discussing series of comedic incidents. U...

My guest in the conversation is the multifaceted Jekwu Ozoemene. Jekwu was a banker who worked in several African countries: Nigeria, Zambia, and Rwanda. Now he owns and runs a dynamic Consultancy: Lyceum Alliance Limited . In this conversation, we discussed his role as MD &CEO of HIV Trust Fund of Nigeria, his play-writing,  Rwanda, Teaching, Covid-19 issues in Africa and China.  It was a ver...

In this conversation, I discussed with a serial Entrepreneur, Glen Uloroh; who in the midst of nearly two decades of a career with major global technology and finance companies in the UK, decided to start building businesses in Nigeria. Today, he runs multiple businesses in Agriculture Commodities, Education, oil and gas servicing.    I asked him several questions about his businesses: his reasons...

On today's  episode of The Think BIG for Africa Podcast, I bring you my fascinating conversation with Kola Olugbodi.  An Author, Public Speaker, Coach/Counselor, and the CEO: Background Check International (Pioneers of background check in Nigeria). You can get his book titled Through It All:  Memoir of many trials & triumphs on Amazon. His life stories are challenging, fascinating, and so...

This is the concluding part of my exciting two-hour-long conversation with Rev. Walter Mwambazi about the detrimental effects of religion on Africa. If you have not listened to part one, “ Why Religion Is A Major Hindrance to Development in Africa Today! “, please do so before you continue to part two. Listen, Enjoy, and Share!  

After listening to the powerful Ted Talk presentation by Reverend Walter Mwambazi , “5 Major Reasons Religion Is the No 1 Cause of Poverty in Africa” Reverend Mwambazi is a spirit-filled, tongue speaker, Evangelical Christian. I knew that I had to speak with him. So, I reached out, and he graciously agreed to have a conversation with me. He was as open as a truly devoted believer can get, and he e...

My guest today is a unique lady, she is a community leader who does many things; she is a: Single-Mother/Student/Foster-parent/NHS Manager/Social Worker/Therapist/Local Councilor/Deputy Group Leader, a Leader of Africans in the town of Watford, UK, and a former school governor.   Ifeyinwa Favour Ezeifedi is a woman of substance who takes her roles working for members of her communities seriously....

In this conversation, my guest was Barnaby Ephraim, a recently retired banker, a former National player for the Nigerian Cricket Team, and Vice Chairman of Lagos State Cricket Association.  Mr. Ephraim was fortunate to have grown up in the 70s/80s and experienced the good days of excellent school sports.  He was able to reminiscence on sports his school days and compared it to the last 20 years.

In this conversation, I go virtually to Nollywood to speak with my Guest; a Nollywood Producer & Director, and the CEO of Daches Multimedia Jerry Isichei  Nollywood: the great success of the Nigerian/African motion picture industry that has grown from zero to number two spot in terms of the number of products delivered yearly in less than thirty years.  Our conversation surrounds the challenge...

In this episode, I discussed the failures of the Nigerian sports sector with sports Entrepreneur Ayodele Thomas. Ayodele is the He is the CEO TopPro Sports Management Company, the Chairman Football Intermediaries Association of Nigeria (F.I.A.N). Our conversation covered the economic and social benefits of sports, the failures of the Sports Administrators, the lack of investors and why, legal issu...

My interesting conversation with Biodun Ogunlabi, covering politics, science, and many more topics. Accountability in Nigerian/African politics. The huge gap in political ideology between Northern and Southern Nigeria Science, as essential for Africa's development, and briefly explored how entrepreneurs and education (of herders)  can solve the Fulani Herdsmen’s problems in West Africa