고향의 환상| Romanticizing Home: Two Months in Nigeria and What It Taught Me About Belonging — The One with Doc Ayomide | Episode 39 (2025)

About this episode

The episode features an unfiltered conversation with Doc Ayomide about the host's two-month stay in Nigeria and the lessons learned about belonging and cultural realities.

This episode brings Doc Ayomide back to us on The More Siby podcast for an unfiltered conversation about my recent two-month stay in Nigeria. What started as a trip home became a masterclass in adaptation, comparison, and the uncomfortable work of holding two realities at once. We explore why we romanticize past lives from a distance, the classism we have been trained not to notice, and how obtaining a simple passport became a months-long ordeal that cost nearly a million naira and still has not been fully resolved.

People in this episode

Host: Mo! Sibyl

Guest: Doc Ayomide

Topics covered

• belonging
• adaptation
• classism
• romanticizing home
• passport issues
• cultural comparison

Keywords

• Nigeria
• belonging
• classism
• passport
• cultural adaptation
• romanticizing home
• Mo! Sibyl

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The More Sibyl Podcast

Places: Nigeria

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