Nigerian In My 20s

Nigerian In My 20s is a solo personal-journal podcast about young adult life in Nigeria. It sounds less like a produced show than a voice note that never ended. The recording conditions are part of it. One Saturday afternoon there is no light, as the speaker puts it, and a warning that any background hum is the generator. Another episode begins with the host just awake, sleep-drunk and circling a greeting for longer than planned. None of this gets tidied up. Under the mess sit real arguments about money, marriage, gender and family. 'The Felixx NAFDAC episode 🎄' treats December as a money trap. The advice: don't post your outings, don't give anyone a reason to slide into your DMs assuming there is cash to share, and save, maybe even toward a house. It lands on 'shine your eye', along with a reminder to treat each day you live as a personal victory. 'Martians vs Venusians' comes from somewhere else. The host has been reading about how men and women communicate, and it spills into a very funny rant about complaining over a colleague, Teresa, only to have a boyfriend take Teresa's side when all that was wanted was someone to listen. Guest episodes move toward best-friend banter. One, recorded late with Aisha tipsy and the conversation openly unplanned, still makes a clear point: turning 23 is no reason to rush into marriage, 30 is not old, and nobody should settle because of a number. 'Catching up / God abeggg!', the power-cut episode, is a friend's takeover of the mic. It moves from worry about a friend who keeps falling for the wrong guys and has since gone quiet to real gratitude for having a best friend. 'Dealing with Childhood Trauma' is the most serious of these episodes and the clearest sign of how far the show can range. The host starts by acknowledging about a month away after a trying August. The episode then covers what trauma can do to health and learning, from heart disease to trouble concentrating. The most striking part describes a loop: neglectful or abusive parenting, a child's trauma, difficult behavior, parental frustration, then the same pattern handed down. It closes on self-reflection and a willingness to change. The December money episode is an easy place to start, and the trauma episode shows how far the show can travel from it. Across all of it comes someone working out adulthood out loud, comic and annoyed one minute and plainly vulnerable the next.