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Banana Island Living Podcasts
Banana Island Living - A community business and lifestyle podcast for a happier, healthier, more informed living. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Accidental Activist Episode
Ayo Obe (née Ogunsola), legal practitioner, trustee of Senegal’s Gorée Institute, trustee of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group and a massi...
The Accidental Journalist
Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi, (B.A. Hons English, U.I, M.A, Ph.D. Dramatic Lit, NYU) started out with full commitment to academia. Somehow (fate? luck?), he segu...
The Award Winning Journalist Episode
Stephanie Busari, award-winning journalist, tri-lingual story teller and soon to be media mogul (from our mouths to the ears of God), believes journal...
The Political Educator Episode
Kingsley Moghalu, the newly minted head of the newly minted African School of Governance, presents his super impressive backstory with pride, with the...
The Music Man Episode
Juwon Ogungbe marches to the beat of his own particular Classico Euro/African drum (yep, we made that one up). He sings, composes, hosts his own radio...
The Techpreneur Episode
Biola Alabi is definitely not one for imposing limits on her own possibilities; she thrives, no, revels in re-invention. From public health to super T...
The Arty Architect
Anyone claiming to know anything about the art scene in Nigeria who hasn’t heard of Jess Castellote really needs to get out more; or perhaps just get...
The Medical Entrepreneur
Dr. Wole Odedun’s life story has been truly epic! He really could have ended up as a motor mechanic, eking out an existence on Lebanon Road, Ibadan, N...
The Intrepid Diplomat Episode
With nearly 30 years as an international civil servant working with the UN, Yewande Odia has been in all the hotspots - Somalia, Haiti, Goma, Tchad an...
The Trump In Law episode
As if Sarah Boulos’s backstory (past imperfect?) was not epic enough, her present continuous one merits its own Hollywood (or is it Nollywood?) biopic...
The Work Life Episode
Blessing Adesiyan established WorkLife Africa, a think-tank focussed on transforming the continent's workforce and work spaces. She has made quite a j...
The Creative Entrepreneur Episode
Ugoma Ebilah is a polymath - she has been an economist, successful financier, clothes designer, art dealer and now, one word which might just work whe...
The PR Strategist Episode
Only the paranoid survive! Only the paranoid survive?
Yes! Tokunboh George - Taylor lives by that mantra and she really should know. She...
The Newswatch Survivor Episode
Uzo Nzeogu, a talented artist who studied Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka with greats like Bruce Onobrakpeya and El Anatsui...
The Beauty Queen Entrepreneur
Helen took a short trip away from university and came back as Miss Nigeria 1979! Sharp, shrewd and always impeccably turned out, Helen Prest Ajayi nea...
The Multi-tasking OAP (On Air Personality).
Eku Edewor is many things but one thing she definitely is not is a slacker. Not just a pretty face (and what a pretty face), she believes in grafting...
The Property Entrepreneur
A lion in the den who has made his mark on the property landscape. Paul Onwuanibe is group chief executive officer of Landmark Africa Group. With for...
The Intellectual Entrepreneur
For years, Dr. Ayo Aderinwale lived and breathed African political science. He has been in exile fleeing Abacha's regime, been a key figure in the pla...
The Diaspora Entrepreneur
Old Gregorian, avid Banana Island Living listener and serial entrepreneur, Adeyemo Sodipo, has embedded himself in the community he migrated into - St...
The Artistic Septuagenarian
Continuing our series unveiling the experiences and memories of the generation before ours, how they lived, loved and explored, our guest is none othe...
The Musical Octogenarian
The fourth in our series of conversations with people 75 years and over, our conversation with the musical octogenarian is one that uplifts and serena...
The Royal Professor Episode
The third in our series of conversations with people 75 years and over, our conversation with the royal professor could not have come at a better time...
The Agbaje Episode
The second in our series of conversations with people 75 years and over, this episode is a truly special one.
We meet two Agbaje sisters (82 and...
The Intrepid Octogenarian Episode
Hers was the generation that saw the best of times and, arguably, the worst of times. The heady, optimistic pre Nigerian independence days and then,...
The Big C Episode
The big C, the dreaded C, that soul destroying word we do everything possible (or at least try) to avoid. Yes, Cancer!
In seeking to fin...
The Very Social Lawyer Episode
Sade Doherty works hard - at being a business lawyer, family court assessor, school governor, Musical Society of Nigeria trustee, Centre for Contempo...
The Healthy Lifestyle Episode
'The diet starts tomorrow!' Yeah, sure.
We've all been there, said that, got the oversized tee shirt.
Olamide Balogun, the 'awake...
The International Children's Day Episode
Children have a voice, they should be encouraged to use it and people should be encouraged to listen (with apologies to the Duchess of Sussex). Tsema...
The Special Needs Episode
Special Educational Needs (SEN) has become rather a ‘thing’ but was it ever thus and we are just more aware now? What do we mean by SEN? You know that...
The Education Entrepreneur Episode
You get the degrees, plan for the business, find the ideal one at the right price - what could possibly go wrong? Well, plenty as it turns out.
The Wealth Advisor's Edition
This Women’s Month we demystify money, wealth creation and preservation and who better to do this than a woman who does all these and does them well.<...
The Theatre Master’s Episode
‘Niyi Coker, Jr. is currently Professor & Director of the School of Theatre, Television and Film at San Diego State University in California. Prior t...
The Young and Restless episode
Educated and intrepid with the world as their oyster, the African millennial is young and restless. Fearlesss, ambitious, fiercely afro-centric, secur...
The Arty Attorney’s Episode
We have discussed with artists, masters and collectors about this topic, but what does it mean to the maven of the arts who is also a chief from the B...
The New Year Episode
2021 was quite the year: a roller coaster of highs and lows, peaks and troughs, agonies and nearly-there ecstasy.
In our new year episode, gues...
The (Guilt - free) Christmas Episode
For a guilt free Christmas, we give you the perfect present - a worthy edition with just the right amount of fun.
Nkoyo Rapu shows...
The Maverick Collector’s Episode
Femi Akinsanya - investment banker, broker, educationist and foremost art collector, is no art dilettante.
His passion for collecting transcend...
The e-Naira Intro Episode
The Nigerian Central Bank Digital Currency, e-Naira, has finally launched, and Oluwaseun Odeku, Associate Director, Forensic Services, KPMG, walks us...
The Diaspora Millennial Podcaster Episode
The Diaspora Millennial Podcaster Episode.
With now over 7,000 downloads and a million thanks to our fantastic listeners, in this episode, we lo...
The Art Maestro Episode - Bruce Onabrakpeya
This week's edition features Nigerian printmaker, painter and all round maestro, Bruce Onabrakpeya.
His candour, complex personality and...