Afropolitan 🅰️🌶

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$700 for a brand deal. Her management renegotiated: $7,000. Same creator. Same brand. 10x difference. Eni Popoola went from Harvard → Columbia Law → Big Law → full-time creator. We talked about why culture is the leverage Black people keep undervaluing. New episode 🎙️🔗

Andrew Alli is talking about Nigeria's energy crisis and Eche goes: "My inverter just blew off." 😂 Context: everything. #AfropolitanPodcast #Lagos #Nigeria #NigerianTwitter #Relatable

Every FinTech founder thinks they're disrupting banks. Andrew Alli says they're just becoming them — eventually. Is he right? #AfropolitanPodcast #FinTech #Startups #Africa #TechAfrica

Everyone's popping bottles in December. That is not your market. Indomie noodles. Recharge cards. Beer. Andrew Alli on the real African consumer economy vs. the Instagram illusion. #AfropolitanPodcast #Business #Lagos #Nigeria #AfricanEntrepreneur

The diaspora keeps sending money home. Andrew Alli says that's not the real asset. "It's not money. It's Know-How." What would change if we led with expertise instead? #AfropolitanPodcast #Diaspora #Africa #Remittance #AfricanDiaspora

200 years ago, most people in France didn't even speak French. So why do we treat African fragmentation as permanent? Andrew Alli on the history lesson nobody taught us. #AfropolitanPodcast #Africa #History #PanAfrica #AfricanDiaspora

The most uncomfortable truth about building in Africa? You cannot avoid government. It's unavoidable. Andrew Alli — 30 years in African infrastructure — on the rule everyone ignores. #AfropolitanPodcast #Africa #Business #Government #AfricanEntrepreneur

A mechanic charged $100 for hitting an engine with a spanner for 30 seconds. "Yeah — but it took me 10 years to know where to hit it." That's Know-How. And it's the most valuable thing the diaspora can export. #AfropolitanPodcast #Diaspora #KnowHow #Africa #CareerAdvice

You cannot build a loyal nation if people don't feel the system will treat them fairly. That's what #EndSARS was really about. Andrew Alli connecting John Rawls to the streets of Lagos. #AfropolitanPodcast #EndSARS #Nigeria #Justice #AfricanDiaspora

Out of every power utility across Africa — only 2 are financially viable. 2. Andrew Alli on why the electricity crisis isn't going away. #AfropolitanPodcast #Africa #Energy #Infrastructure

95% of failed investments at Africa's biggest infrastructure fund had the same problem. It wasn't the market. It wasn't the currency. It was governance. And not governance as a checklist — governance as culture. #AfropolitanPodcast #Business #Investment #Leadership

1980: 75 million Nigerians. 1.5M barrels of oil a day. 2024: 220 million Nigerians. Still 1.5M barrels. The math that explains everything. #AfropolitanPodcast #Nigeria #Oil #Economy #AfricanDiaspora

@danieloduonye Yes we are on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1RmN5m…

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300% returns. In Naira. 6% returns. In dollars. Not per year. Just 6%. This is the math destroying African private equity — and nobody is talking about it. #AfropolitanPodcast #Investment #PrivateEquity #AfricanDiaspora #Finance

Spot on In the industry I am. Years of exposure has received we lack capacity as a nation to meet our demands Scary

Nigeria just opened its biggest refinery. Then imported engineers from India to run it. Not because we lack intelligence — because we lack know-how. Andrew Alli on the skills crisis nobody wants to talk about. #AfropolitanPodcast #Nigeria #Dangote #Engineering #AfricanDiaspora

Yes, there is a skills crisis BUT the refinery staffing is a choice... Note that NLNG is almost all Nigerian Some wag is going to point out that Alhaji makes similar "choices" in his other companies GLO & MTN also show the refinery/NLNG dynamic

Tbh, traditional private equity really doesn't work in Nigeria, and by extension, other African markets