Represented Podcast - Storybooks for African Kids: Recent Episodes
Africa Business Radio
Hosted by Tonye-Faloghi and Ugo Ekezie, Featuring Storybooks and more for African kids, we make it easy for parents to find and discover movies and storybooks by Authors that have their children fully represented.
Tonye and Ugo each pick their favourite children's book and share it with the listeners.
We talk inspiration and representation with the youth advocate and author currently doing her doctorate at Oxford University.
We get to know this award-winning writer and children's book author, as well as read from his fantasy children's book.
We talk about everything books with these sisters who are passionate book lovers. We discuss their Kids Books Review platform and read from one of their favourites
Environmentalist, Celebrity and Co-host of TVC talk show "Your View" shares her journey to becoming an author and her debut book titled "Vultures to the Rescue".
We discuss how books are a great way to address difficult issues to children in a way they can easily understand and read from her book "Dimples Dares to Ask," a story in the times of the Covid 19 pandemic.
We meet the inspirational founder of Readland NG whose goal is to raise readers, leaders of character and competence. Including skillshare workshops for kids in coding, creative writing, art, and public speaking. They publish African stories and in fact, her whole family including her children are published authors.
We meet multitalented child author Mojoyin Adeshina, sister to Mobolurin Adeshina of Super Brain Boy. We talk her published works and read one of her books.
We meet our first child author of the series. Mobolurin Adeshina is an author and reading advocate. He hails from the Adeshina family, founders of @readlandng. We talk heroes, superpowers and read one of these published works
This time we meet Mrs Bola Edwards, co-founder of Proud African Roots and actor behind the sensational Grandma Wura character.
We meet this bubbly and vivacious author with a passion for children's books. She heads up Sade's Book World. We read one of her books.
Oyinda Kazeem is the co-author of Ẹ̀bùn the Exotic Elephant, her first outing as an author. The book was released in August 2021 with her sister, Olamide Fafemi under their publishing house, Lándé’s African Tales.
Founder of The Bookworm Café. We talk about her passion for children's books and working to build a fun and inviting reading culture. We read from one of her favourites
We chat with Muyiwa Kayode, the creator and producer of one of the first African animated series, the award-winning "Adventures of Turtle Taido".
Host Tonye and her son Ugo, talk about the Ugo and Sim Sim books, how they came about, and read one of the books in this episode
Basirat Razaq-Shuaib is a disability & Inclusive Education Consultant and Founder of the Winford Centre for Children and Women. She is a board-certified cognitive specialist, an inclusive education consultant and a speaker driving the conversation on inclusive education in Africa.
She also published two children’s books on empathy, kindness and inclusiveness.
Her first book –“I am not naughty- I really really mean it!” was selected as a finalist for the 2020 British Council ELTons Innovation Award and won the Judges Special Commendation for Diversity and Inclusion111.
Uchechi Mba Uzoukwu is the Author, Co-Founder, and Member Board Of Trustees at Africa Policy Conversations, Founder Books-By-Uchechi Foundation Africa, Founder of D&D Media.
She aims to showcase the Rich African Heritage by Storytelling in-order to Entertain, Educate, Enlighten, Inform and Inspire audiences across the world via Media Production in various forms.
Adesola Alli is the Founder of Kids Literary Circle where Books are read monthly and several activities around the book to engage children.
The idea is to show children, there is soo much one can do just by picking up a book, that way it makes it more exciting for them to read and explore.
Kofoworola (Adebayo) Oyeleye is a Social Entrepreneur, Creator Of Award Winning Anilingo, Mandela Washington Fellow, Mentor.
Dr (Mrs) Chigozie Anuli Mbadugha is a multi-talented young woman. Her love for the arts manifested early as she wrote her first unpublished novel at the age of six.
Beyond the Trial, her first published work is a collection of short stories that highlight the INCREDIBLE strength of the African woman living in a largely patriarchal society. Beyond the Trial was recently awarded the Samuel Ajayi Crowther Prize for best Christian Fiction at the Nigerian Christian Literature Awards 2017.
Tonye and Ugo hosted the founder of the Koli and Olum Books. They are dedicated to introducing African languages to children at an early age.
Tonye and Ugo hosted the founder of the Akada Children's Book Festival and author of the amazing Tobi series
This author's books feature characters with special needs and are written for children of different age brackets. We read from My name is Nimi.
Tonye and Ugo Jnr. talk everything about Kunda Kids with founder Dele Olafuyi and read from one of the books: Shakazulu Learns to Dance.