WIB Podcast

Wait, I'm Black?!

Society EN ↓ 7 episodes

Wait, I’m Black?! is a podcast about the moments when race stops being abstract and starts to matter. It’s a reflective space with warmth, humour, and honest conversations that make visible how race shows up in everyday life – sometimes quietly, sometimes suddenly, and sometimes only understood years later. Hosted by Michael Buraimoh, the series centres on the moment, or series of moments, when race shifts from a neutral descriptor to something consequential: when it begins to shape how one is perceived, treated, or afforded opportunity. While grounded in the host’s experience as a Black p...

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Beyond Race: What It Means to Be Seen as Human First 26.06.2026 57:26

In this episode of Wait, I’m Black?! , Michael sits in conversation with Maurice Mcleod – CEO of Olmec, Councillor, social commentator, and media executive. Growing up in the UK, Maurice came to recognise something many people never have to think about: the constant awareness of being seen as Black before being seen simply as a human being. Together, they explore what it means to carry that aw...

Forget Sticks and Stones. The N-Word Can Break Bones. 11.06.2026 58:44

In this episode of Wait, I’m Black?! , Michael sits in conversation with Grace Mosuro – inclusion specialist, speaker and advocate – about moving to the UK as a child, and the experiences that transformed her understanding of race, identity and belonging. Grace reflects on being called the N-word for the first time. Her first reaction was not outrage, but confusion, only gradually realising it w...

Learning To Occupy Spaces Without Representation 28.05.2026 49:36

In this episode of Wait, I’m Black?!, Michael sits in conversation with Christine Kinnear – award-winning Founder and CEO of With Insight Education – about growing up Black in the UK, the lasting impact of early racial experiences, and the quiet ways underrepresentation shapes what people, especially young people, believe is possible for them. Christine reflects on encountering racism at a painful...

Learning to Take Up Space: How I Stopped Making Myself Smaller to Fit In 14.05.2026 57:06

In this episode of Wait, I’m Black?!, Michael sits in conversation with Fizza Qureshi – CEO of a migration charity, campaigner, and mother of two. Growing up as a Pakistani girl in a predominantly white working-class area in the UK, Fizza reflects on the subtle and overt ways race shaped her childhood long before she had language for it. From school experiences and neighbourhood hostility to f...

Too Much of One Thing, Not Enough of Another – My Experience of Belonging 30.04.2026 56:23

In this episode of Wait, I’m Black?! , Michael sits in conversation with Martha Awojobi – a consultant, coach, and creator of Uncharitable Political Education. Martha reflects on growing up navigating identity without always having the language or clarity to make sense of it. She shares what it felt like to exist between worlds as a mixed-race person, where belonging wasn’t always straightforw...

When a Bank Asked Me a Question I’d Never Been Asked Before 15.04.2026 54:23

In this episode of Wait, I’m Black?!, Michael sits in conversation with Wellington Makala – a Chief Nurse in the NHS and an experienced, passionate healthcare leader. Wellington grew up in Zimbabwe with a strong sense of who he was – shaped by family, belonging, and purpose, not race. When he moved to the UK, something shifted. He reflects on the moment race stopped being abstract and began...

Welcome to Wait, I’m Black?! 09.04.2026 15:06

This introductory episode sets the stage for Wait, I’m Black?! — a podcast about the moment when race stops being abstract and starts to matter. These are stories about the moment when race stops being abstract and starts to matter. It’s a reflective space with moments of warmth and humour, and honest conversations that make visible how race shows up in everyday life – sometimes quietly, sometimes...