Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week on the podcast we have another installment of Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate collaboration--Borderless Building. Throughout the year, we’re hosting conversations with BWRE members showcasing the personal and professional journeys of Black women in the real estate industry across tthe global. We’re highlighting how Black women in the industry invest and structure value in/around land/property across global markets; and how we are offering valuable insight into the business/operational functions in the real estate industry to inspire a spirit of land stewardship. You’ll hear this and more in this week's conversation.

My guest, Nioki Doggett comes to us from the UK by way of her Bajan roots in Barbados. Throughout her career, she’s helped institutional investors across the globe navigate complex real estate markets and find high-conviction opportunities, building the kind of trust that turns one-time conversations into decade-long partnerships. As Lead Business Development and Investor Relations Director for M&G Real Estate's European Platform, she drives capital growth and delivers tailored investment solutions for global institutional investors. Her work sits at the intersection of relationship management, market insight, and strategic advisory.

Beyond her core role, Nioki is actively involved in shaping the broader real estate and investment community as a Committee Member of the INREV DDQ Committee, the Guild of Investment Managers, Ladies in Real Estate. She is a mentor at Chancerygate supporting real estate undergraduates entering the industry, and conference moderator and panel speaker on real estate and investment topics.

Listen and learn more about how her deep expertise in real estate investment dynamics and global investor network spanning multiple markets and geographies are creating value where it counts.

Where to find Nioki?
On LinkedIn
@ in Real Estate (LiRE)

What’s Nioki watching?
Grey’s Anatomy and other shows by Shonda Rhimes
Apprentice UK
Dragon’s Den

What’s Nioki listening to?
Bruno Mars
Marvin Sapp
Adele
Olivia Dean
Daniel Caesar

Other topics of interest:
About Black Women in Real Estate
About Barbados now and Bajan roots
Reading, Berkshire
Royal Borough of Windsor

Special Guest: Nioki Doggett.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! Let me introduce myself, I'm your host Florence Amerley Adu. I'm CEO and co-founder of LEAP Transmedia. Our vision is to seeds and sows a fertile ground for improving education and economic outcomes for Ghanaians and Africans across the diaspora.

Do you dream about “doing something” abroad? Then consider Glocal Citizens required listening in the due diligence, trusted advisor and inspiration department. In each episode, I visit with dynamic diasporans making local and global impact designing and applying their craft. We explore how their passions have rooted them throughout their lives, while at the same time feeding the branches compelling them to keep reaching “beyond.” We also discuss the personal and professional dimensions of glocal citizenship. Then we round out the discussion with a deep dive into to the business of their business, covering the technical and operational components of the work of “doing something.”

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week’s conversation with Adedayo Jemima Lewis, Senior VP Commercial & Growth at Fincra, offers great insights into process and realities of realizing your passion in a new local. From applying and receiving a Global Talent Visa to sharpening her impact-driven career lens, Jemima is one to watch, particularly in the African Fintech space. As a commercial and growth leader with a foundation in marketing, brand, and communications, her expertise lies in a unique combination of strategic positioning and operational discipline, which she uses to successfully build and scale businesses.

Across the leadership roles she has held at Fincra, she has consistently focused on the intersection of commercial growth, brand, and communications, enhancing Fincra's go-to-market strategies, refining its value proposition, and ensuring scalable systems support business goals.

Today, in her commercial and growth leadership role, she combines that narrative craft with revenue-minded discipline, helping align teams, messaging, and market motion to support sustainable growth. She oversees the management of commercial revenue strategy, strategic partnerships, and market expansion, converting Fincra’s technical capabilities and vision into commercial success.

Her portfolio of experience includes work for organisations such as microfinance fintech Aella, Wild Fusion—Africa's leading integrated marketing communications agencies, The Republic Agency, Oando PLC, Lafarge Africa, UBA, Chivita 100%, and more, with responsibilities spanning digital strategy, content development, campaign execution, community management, growth and PR.

When she’s not wearing the commercial or growth hat, Jemima dedicates her time to podcasting.

Where to find Jemima?
@The Shrine Podcast
On LinkedIn
On Instagram

What’s Jemima reading?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

What’s Jemima watching?
The Mentalist

Other topics of interest:
Ekiti State, Nigeria
City of Leeds, UK
Discover Halifax, UK
#EndSARS
About the UK’s Global Talent Visa Programme
What is an API?
Central Bank of Nigeria - CBN

Special Guest: Jemima Lewis.

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week on the podcast community builidng is a central theme. For twenty years, my guest, Bakajika Tshinanga, has operated at the exact intersection where culture generates economic value.

His journey started in 2004, when he founded a student-led program at the University of Georgia Atlanta. Georgia Daze still runs today and has improved enrollment yield conservatively valued at $150M+ in incremental revenue for the university. That experience shaped how he thinks about infrastructure: who builds it, who benefits, and who owns the upside.

He went on building hospitality programming delivering the cultural insight that prompted AT&T to sponsor Drake's inaugural headline tour and leading the campaign that introduced the Lyft ridesahre app to Atlanta. He’s produced work with cultural figures including Michael Jordan, and while an undergraduate he producing concerts featuring Outkast, Lauryn Hill, and Dave Chappelle. Also of note, he owns a publishing catalog featuring songs from Lil Wayne, The Neptunes, Sevyn Streeter, Pusha T, and Usher.

Coding since age 11, technology is lens he's always looking through. His latest endeavor, the lOlŌ's platform is the direct expression of technology deployed as infrastructure to close the gap between who creates cultural value and who captures it. He's lived the innovator's dilemma firsthand: operating at the riskiest part of the curve, where the work is undeniable but the capital isn't designed to find you. That experience is why lOlŌ exists—a collective ownership vehicle for cultural capital, community-capitalized, community-governed, designed to compound for generations.

Where to fine Bakajika?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Threads

What’s Bakajika reading?
The Science of Scaling by Dr. Benjamin Hardy adn Blake Erickson

What’s Bakajika watching?
Dreaming Whilst Black on Showtime

How’s Bakijika listening to?
Who is Joy Leone?

Other topics of interest:
Kinshasa, DRC
About Georgia Daze
University of Michigan Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case
Atlanta Influences Everything
Lɔlɔ̃ means love

Special Guest: Bakajika Tshinanga.

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

I’m sure many of you remember the groundbreaking web series An African City. We’ve even hosted a panel featuring creator of the series Nicole Amarteifio in our writing as activism series. My guest this week launched her creative career as a cast member on the series and she hasn’t looked back since. Maame Adjei is a Ghanaian storyteller, producer, director, entrepreneur and cultural archivist.

As the founder of Sweet Roots Media, she leads a women-driven media hub dedicated to amplifying cultural narratives and preserving history through high-quality storytelling. Their work spans documentary scripted, brand storytelling, and immersive experiences, all crafted to resonate on a global scale.

Beyond media, she is the founder of Duruyeh, a bold jewelry brand celebrating heritage, beauty, and self-expression. Every piece tells a story, designed not just as an accessory but as a keepsake to be passed down.

Maame is also deeply invested in archival work and co-founded Korabea which focuses on preserving, protecting, and uplifting the stories of Ghanaian women, both past and present, through exhibitions, educational projects, and a forthcoming podcast. #NewPodcastAlert!

Where to find Maame?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On YouTube

What’s Maame listening to?
Devi Brown’s Deeply Well Podcast
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
The Myleik Teele Podcast
The Emotions

Other topics of interest:
NAFTI is now UniMAC-IFT
Who is GloRilla?
The Whites of Our Eyes Trailer
On Kenneth B. Clark's Doll Study
The Sunday Mirror today
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings

Special Guest: Maame Adjei.

Heartfelt Greetings, Glocal Citizens.

This week’s encore episode is a salve for my heavy heart. I’m resharing it as a reminder of life’s certainties; because it reflects some of the roots experiences that my guest, Global Ghanaian, death doula and author of Briefly Perfectly Human, Alua Arthur and I share; and because care for the aging has become a feature focus of my life story, particulary since the start of the pandemic.

On April 4th, my father, Peter Otoe Adu took his leave from the body that was the man I know as Daddy, Dad, PO, Peter and papa. He was 86.

Last week on the podcast, I mentioned the long overdue solutionscape and stretch salon series. The first topic we covered in these live sessions--the future of work in care for the aging, is an ever-timely discussion that will go live later this month. Woven into this series will be small tributes in memory of the briefly, perfectly human life dad lived and what I hope will be inspiration for us all to normalize conversations, pay attention and act in the interest of not just our elders but our inevitably aging selves.

Where to find Alua?
See the show notes for Episode 164

Special Guest: Alua Arthur.

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This year our Women’s Herstory Month series has taken us for the first time to Botswana and Norway; we stopped in the UK, picked up flavors from Nigeria, Sudan, Zambia, Netherlands, Philippines, Belgium, Brazil and South Africa; went on a future forward mission in Kenya, and we’re landing home in a flashback forward conversation with fellow Ghanaian-American and early Glocal Citizen, Nana Amoako-Anin. Nana first joined us on the podcast in January 2020 in a time when wellness was often taken for granted or an afterthought for later. Then the global pandemic, COVID-19 changed everything. Wellness is now having a moment. However, as we’ll discuss in the conversation, the moment calls for depth, not trend, to sustain real mindset and lifestyle shifts on the personal and professional levels. Nana writes about this at Wellness in Black and lives and works it as a social entrepreneur and organizational leader. She is best known as the founder of Bliss Yoga Accra, Ghana’s first full-service yoga studio. With a background in law, she brings cross-sector expertise to her work, which bridges global perspectives with local impact, positioning her as a thought leader in mindful leadership, mentorship, social innovation and international executive strategy. In this conversation we catch up on evolving realities around wellness for Africans and in Ghana as well as her experience diversifying the what and how of work, guided by her enduring committment to staying people centered. And much, much more.

Where to find Nana?
https://www.nanaamoakoanin.com/
@ Bliss Yoga Accra
On Glocal Citizens
At CrowdReason

What’s Nana reading?
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Other topics of interest:
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
The “official” Vicks story
Kemetic Yoga
An African History of Africa on YouTube
On Legalized Cannabis in Ghana
Indigenous vs Colonial Medicine in Ghana
Hamamat Shea Butter Museum
ishowspeed in Ghana
Jill Scott talks with Angie Martinez

Special Guest: Nana Amoako-Anin.

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week our Women’s Herstory Month series takes us back to Kenya--to a place called Area Nyaga. Our guide is futurist, artist, and creative synthesist reimagining African futures, San’aa Njeeri. Distilling over a decade of global interdisciplinary practice, she positions art as a tool for education, translating complex ideas into accessible experiences that advance African storytelling while progressing digital ecosystems and financial literacy within the context of emerging technologies.

Through Area Nyaga, her world building framework informed by the Maasci Return saga and her seminal MaaSci series, she situates Indigenous African identities within expansive futuristic landscapes through her signature visual language, A.EYE (African Eye). Working across speculative art, immersive environments, and narrative design, she develops cultural and digital infrastructures that expand how futures can be imagined, understood, and built.

Her work is guided by a defining inquiry: What becomes possible when cultural heritage informs the futures we shape and the narratives we carry forward? In this conversation we explore this question and find ourselves in depth with San’aa getting to know more about how from childhood, her Kenya has grounded the mission and vision that focus her world, and at times, interstellar view.

Where to find San’aa?
On LinkedIn
In Instagram
On Substack

What’s San’aa watching?
After Skool

Other topics of interest:
Baraza Media Lab
San People of Southern Africa
About Murang'a, Kenya
Kiambu County
Where is Kirinyaga?
Mount Kenya and Batian Peak
Other Futures Festival
Who is Blinky Bill?
Black Rhino Studios
Old Town Lamu
About my broadcast debut on the Super Six School News

Special Guest: San'aa Njeeri.