Sep 1, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 10 segments
What happens when you’ve built a life abroad… then realize you want to go home? This week we're sitting down with Desola to talk about her journey from Nigeria to the UK, and eventually, back home…
Adesola KazimGuestMalikHostJapa Diaries Co-HostHostJapa Diaries Co-HostHost
But even after I came back to Lagos for the... films release and for you know dirty december shenanigans i still have to come back to the uk as well because i was not done tying up all the loose strings the lease of my apartment was still going to run all the way till april so i was going back and forth quite a while i'm still going back and forth to some degree right now
okay okay
I advocate for everyone to take the leave, you know, do something like that.
Are you seeing people, you know, deciding, yeah, you know, I've went to pros and cons the way you did, you know, it's ultimately the best thing for me.
And, you know, I'm moving back, you know, because I was also thinking about as Nigeria, you know, do we benefit when everybody comes back home? If still workers get an education from Oxford, when we don't, it doesn't help.
It kind of helps the hopefully really sad scenario.
This is all I turn on the TV and hear, oh, Nigeria is a failed state now.
We're closing up shop.
Everything does spot.
We use that a little bit with more words that exist, as you said.
So I see a lot of people come back, or not really.
But in fact, I think the best way I would answer the specific way you framed that question is I would not be able to do this if Fumbi, who is the CEO of Fatherland and the producer of My Father's Shadow, and Wale, who is the writer of My Father's Shadow and the founder of Fatherland, his tech from Shodem can tempt his manager.
If they themselves did not japada and create Fatherland, this opportunity that exists would not exist for me.
So the simple answer is with that, I can clearly see the opportunities that that creates.
Because no shade, I'm very interested in like Nigerian creativity and film and music, but a lot of Nigerian film industries, the way it works is just not something I would be interested in dedicating my life to.
The subjects of interest that I have, Fatherland and some other indie companies coming out like Blumhouse and stuff like that, they do, right? But they are very recent things.
So that is a very clear example to me of how that pathway was created for someone like me that would not happen without those kind of people coming back.
yeah
um and yes i do see people all the time in fact last year when i was doing my year of no obligations i called me and my friends were calling it um unemployed girl summer because left and right everybody was just becoming unemployed for various reasons for various reasons some of them were people like me that literally just up and quit their jobs because they're like enough is enough um or i've i've I did what I was looking for some of them there was a wave of tech layoffs that happened in the US and the UK but especially in the US that affected lots of my friends in places like Google in places like Uber yeah um There was in Microsoft, then there was also a couple of my friends, they had basically like, I don't want to say mental health breakdowns, but mental health breakdowns.
And they had to get leaves of absences from their jobs where they didn't straight up quit, but like they got special like benefits.
But even after I came back to Lagos for the... films release and for you know dirty december shenanigans i still have to come back to the uk as well because i was not done tying up all the loose strings the lease of my apartment was still going to run all the way till april so i was going back and forth quite a while i'm still going back and forth to some degree right now
okay okay
I advocate for everyone to take the leave, you know, do something like that.
Are you seeing people, you know, deciding, yeah, you know, I've went to pros and cons the way you did, you know, it's ultimately the best thing for me.
And, you know, I'm moving back, you know, because I was also thinking about as Nigeria, you know, do we benefit when everybody comes back home? If still workers get an education from Oxford, when we don't, it doesn't help.
It kind of helps the hopefully really sad scenario.
This is all I turn on the TV and hear, oh, Nigeria is a failed state now.
We're closing up shop.
Everything does spot.
We use that a little bit with more words that exist, as you said.
So I see a lot of people come back, or not really.
But in fact, I think the best way I would answer the specific way you framed that question is I would not be able to do this if Fumbi, who is the CEO of Fatherland and the producer of My Father's Shadow, and Wale, who is the writer of My Father's Shadow and the founder of Fatherland, his tech from Shodem can tempt his manager.
If they themselves did not japada and create Fatherland, this opportunity that exists would not exist for me.
So the simple answer is with that, I can clearly see the opportunities that that creates.
Because no shade, I'm very interested in like Nigerian creativity and film and music, but a lot of Nigerian film industries, the way it works is just not something I would be interested in dedicating my life to.
The subjects of interest that I have, Fatherland and some other indie companies coming out like Blumhouse and stuff like that, they do, right? But they are very recent things.
So that is a very clear example to me of how that pathway was created for someone like me that would not happen without those kind of people coming back.
yeah
um and yes i do see people all the time in fact last year when i was doing my year of no obligations i called me and my friends were calling it um unemployed girl summer because left and right everybody was just becoming unemployed for various reasons for various reasons some of them were people like me that literally just up and quit their jobs because they're like enough is enough um or i've i've I did what I was looking for some of them there was a wave of tech layoffs that happened in the US and the UK but especially in the US that affected lots of my friends in places like Google in places like Uber yeah um There was in Microsoft, then there was also a couple of my friends, they had basically like, I don't want to say mental health breakdowns, but mental health breakdowns.
And they had to get leaves of absences from their jobs where they didn't straight up quit, but like they got special like benefits.
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