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July 6, 2020

A Conversation With An Openly-Gay Nigerian Man

I fantasized about my podcast for months. Technically, years. Ever since my live show, The Verastic Show stopped airing, I started thinking of other ways to have those conversations again, but it was the past several months that I really saw my podcast clearly. I knew what I wanted: I wanted to have authentic conversations --- like the one I had with this openly-gay Nigerian man. "I believe in asking the difficult questions, starting the uncomfortable conversations, proposing outside-the-box Read More

June 29, 2020

How Not To Say Yes When You Really Mean No

Even now, I'm wondering if How Not To Say Yes When You Really Mean No is the appropriate title for this. But it's too late to change it. The podcast has been recorded, edited, and published. Perhaps, what I really should have named it is How Not To Spend Your Energy On Things You Really Don't Want. Either way, I suppose there's still an element of saying yes or no to something. Listen and tell me your thoughts! You can also listen at any and all of the following Read More

June 15, 2020

Never Have I Ever [A Life Not Lived – Yet] (I Am African Podcast #15)

I played a game of Never Have I Ever on Zoom for Uju's birthday in April, and it got me thinking about a whole lot. Although I knew it before, this game became living proof that indeed I need to stop being so safe and live already. There is so much I still have not experienced. Half the year is already gone, but it does not mean I can't start where I am right now, right? The past three weeks have been very dark - and that's putting it mildly - so I deliberately chose this topic for this week's Read More

June 9, 2020

On The Rape Culture In Nigeria ft. Omolara Oriye (I Am African Podcast #14)

Sweet Potatoes, So much is going on in the world right now. And I'm tired of starting sentences like this, but how can I be tired when some people have a worse fate? My fellow Nigerian women have been raped and killed with no repercussions to the rapist because of the rape culture in Nigeria. In today's episode, I have the very smart and outspoken table-shaker, Omolara Oriya, an activist, human rights lawyer. We had a raw and authentic conversation about the rape culture in Nigeria, about the Read More

June 1, 2020

Dear Africans, You’re Black Too (I Am African Podcast #13)

Dear Africans You're Black Too - Black Lives Matter

Today's episode is not a regular episode, and I am not a regular Vera today either. I was so angry recording this episode. When I was listening back to it, I felt bad for the Vera who recorded it. I was angry that some Africans still don't know that they're Black in America, but I was angrier at the situation that calls for Africans to be reminded that they're Black too. Some days ago, I did not go to bed till about 4AM because I was watching the news, watching buildings burn, and watching my Read More

May 27, 2020

Why I Have Not Started Online Dating

Why have I not started online dating? First, let me tell you about this friend of mine. Let's call her Tiffany. I have known Tiffany for a couple of years, but I have never known her to be in a committed relationship. That has never stopped Tiffany from having fun and living her best life - as it should be. Every time Tiffany and I get together, she tells me stories of all the men who are just dying for her love. I used to live my dating life vicariously through Tiffany --- until I realized that Read More

May 25, 2020

On Patriarchal Cultural Norms That Don’t Serve Women ft. Ola Bisi [Jopa’s Daughter] (I Am African Podcast #12)

The longer I live, the more I learn. When I was a child, there were so many things that were normal to me. Now that I'm older and wiser, I know myself a lot better, and I realize that some of the things I thought were normal were actually patriarchal cultural norms that don't serve women. I'd admit that I fell for some of them, and as I live and learn, I will continue to unlearn every norm that inhibits me. For this episode, my guest is Olabisi Ajai Layode. Do you know her? Let me tell you a Read More

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