Toke sits down with content creator Hauwa the woman behind some of the internet’s funniest, most brutally honest videos for an episode that opens with one running question: what’s the color of your problem?

From there, the conversation moves through Hauwa’s start ghostwriting comedy skits before ever showing her own face, her refusal to hide being broke, in debt, or turned down for a UK visa, and her unapologetic stance on wanting to marry a man with money without shame. She and Toke swap notes on marrying young and leaving fast, on choosing peace and financial independence over performing a relationship for anyone’s approval. Then the tone shifts entirely as Toke opens up about surviving the house fire that took both her parents when she was eight, and what therapy finally gave her the words to say a moment Hauwa meets with real tenderness.

It’s an episode that swings from pure nonsense to real devastation and back again, a reminder that some of the funniest people are carrying the heaviest things.

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In this episode of Toke Moments, Toke sits down with content creator and comedian Folagade Banks, the man behind the viral character Mama Deola, for a conversation that traces his path from a failed record label that got him arrested at OAU, to a modeling agency, to accidentally becoming one of Nigeria’s most recognisable characters during the COVID lockdown.

Folagade opens up about the deliberate choices behind Mama Deola why he picked the robe over an exaggerated, sexualised costume, why he keeps the character sharply separate from who he is in real life, and the deep hurt behind a viral moment where a women’s empowerment event appearance was twisted online into a controversy he never saw coming. He also talks candidly about underpricing himself early in his career, the friendships he’s had to walk away from, the mental health struggles he was quietly carrying between 2021 and 2023, and the upcoming Mama Deola film a Kava original dropping this September, built to prove that African stories can thrive outside the cinema model.

It’s a conversation that moves from laugh-out-loud storytelling to real vulnerability, showing the discipline and heartbreak behind one of Nigeria’s most beloved comedic brands.

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In this episode of Toke Moments, Toke sits down with media mogul and EbonyLife Group founder Mo Abudu for a wide-ranging conversation that moves effortlessly between boardroom and heart-to-heart. Mo traces her path from a decade at ExxonMobil to building an entertainment empire from nothing, admitting that leaving a stable career at 40 to chase an idea for a Pan-African talk show felt less like ambition and more like a calling she couldn’t ignore.

The conversation moves through Mo’s approach to rejection and fundraising, her decision to walk away from hosting Moments With Mo and hand it to the next generation without ego, and the discipline behind her days — the 4 a.m. wake-ups, the one meal a day, the phobia of flying she had to conquer to build a project in Calabar. She also opens up about returning to cinema after seven years away with her new film, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, and what it took to get the industry’s biggest names on board.

This is a funny, unfiltered, and often surprising conversation about legacy, standards, and what it really costs to build something from scratch including Mo’s candid, tongue-in-cheek take on love, marriage, and why she still hasn’t made room for it at 61.

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