"Podcasters don't need one voice, but better connections between many voices." 🌏
Eurowaves #31
Hi podcasters,
Last weekend I took a trip to Brest, France to represent Eurowaves and preach about cross-border collaboration. Longueur d’ondes had its 22nd edition and in one weekend, I got to meet podcasters from France, Morocco, Greece and Belgium. If you’re planning a trip to France, add the 2027 edition on your list!
This edition’s interview is a part of my 2026 resolution to include more international voices in Eurowaves. Here are just some of the nuggets of wisdom you’ll get:
Tony Onwuchekwa [Tony Doe] ‘s The Nigerian Podcast Index: a public directory of Nigerian podcasts. Is there something similar in your country?
“Africa doesn’t need one voice, but better connections between many voices.”
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Before we get into it…
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🇪🇺 Podcasting & Community News 🇪🇺
🎧Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt🎧 , friends of Eurowaves, launched Podcasts We Text About - a newsletter that hopes to actually criticize the industry.
🎗️Sounds Like Impact published the Best of Impactful Podcasts 2025.
🎧#impact launched a community for podcasters to help them stay consistent without burning out, learn the mindset that makes podcasting sustainable, and more.
🌎CBC Podcasts launched their 2026 Call for Pitches. The deadline to submit is April 1st.
🇬🇧The UK awards Golden Lobes are open for entries. Use code EUROWAVESLOBES20 for 20% off.
🏴The Scottish Podcast Awards have announced the award’s categories. There is an international podcast category. (source: Podnews)
🇬🇧The winners of the Political Podcast Awards were announced in London. (source: Podnews)
🇫🇷Independent podcasts are set to be available on the Radio France app, after a new agreement with the PIA, the Syndicate of Independent Audio Producers. (source: Podnews)
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What Nigerian Podcasting Can Teach European Creators, with Tony (Tony Doe) Onwuchekwa 🇳🇬🌏
Tony Onwuchekwa, also known as Tony Doe, is a Nigerian media consultant and podcaster. He helps creators navigate the podcasting landscape, blending practical advice with industry insight. Through Into The Podverse, he amplifies African voices and builds bridges between local and global audio communities.
You can connect with Tony on LinkedIn here.
What’s your podcasting journey? How did you get into podcasting?
I came into podcasting through radio. That background taught me structure, storytelling, and respect for the listener. When podcasting began to grow, it felt like a natural extension of radio, more flexible, more personal, and without the limits of schedules.
Working with creators and stations across Africa, I noticed a gap. People were excited about podcasting, but many didn’t understand how to sustain it. That’s what led to Into The Podverse. It started as a newsletter and later became a podcast, focused on helping creators think long-term and build with intention.
Share with us an overview of Nigeria’s podcasting market.
Nigeria’s podcasting market is growing and energetic. There are many active creators and an audience that’s becoming more curious and consistent.
Discovery mostly happens on social platforms, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, rather than podcast apps. Monetization remains a challenge. Advertising budgets are limited, and payment tools don’t always work locally, so many podcasters rely on mixed income models. The creativity is strong. The systems are still developing.
What’s the Nigerian Podcast Index, and what do you hope it achieves?
The Nigerian Podcast Index is a public directory of Nigerian podcasts. It’s designed to document what exists, without rankings or editorial bias.
The goal is to improve discoverability and create a reliable record of Nigerian audio work. It helps listeners, brands, platforms, and researchers find Nigerian podcasts more easily.
Podcasters can get involved by submitting their shows through a form link. If you’re Nigerian at home or based in the diaspora and have a valid RSS feed, you can be listed.
How would you describe cross-border collaboration across African podcasting markets?
Cross-border collaboration is growing, but it’s still mostly informal. Creators collaborate, share audiences, and learn from one another across countries.
What’s missing is structure. Shared data, stronger regional partnerships, and systems that make collaboration easier to sustain. Africa doesn’t need one voice, but better connections between many voices.
You’re well-connected internationally. What made you branch outside your local context, and what advice do you have for others?
Podcasting is global by nature. Once you publish, your audience can be anywhere.
I branched out to learn from global conversations and bring those insights back to African creators. Exposure sharpens standards and broadens perspective.
My advice is to focus on quality, consistency, and relationships. Do the work well, stay visible, and think beyond borders while staying grounded locally.
Share 2–3 podcast recommendations.
Apart from Into The Podverse, I recommend Mindfully with Tunmise. It’s a thoughtful mental health podcast grounded in lived experience, focused on self-awareness, emotional well-being, and honest conversations.
I also recommend The Young God, by Rodney Omeokachie. It’s an introspective podcast that explores identity, creativity, purpose, and what it means to live intentionally.
Both shows are clear about who they serve, and that clarity comes through in every episode.
Thank you, Tony!
🎙️🌍 Podcasts recommended by you 🌍🎙️
Beb & Bob | Collateral Damage (English/Dutch)
‘Beb & Bob | Collateral Damage’ is an audio story that brings history to life through the voices of two families on opposite sides of World War II. ‘Beb & Bob
Collateral Damage’ is een audioverhaal dat de geschiedenis tot leven brengt via de stemmen van twee families en hun perspectieven op de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Pomegranate Seeds (Georgian)
“It’s not a restriction; it’s a ban on voting” — this is how emigrants are responding to the “Georgian Dream” party’s planned changes to the Electoral Code, which would allow non-resident citizens to participate in elections only within the country’s borders. In this episode, emigrant women discuss why it is impossible for them to return every four years when they work for years just to pay off debts, and what this government decision will change for them.
NARA (Lithuanian/English)
A podcast on social issues, societal turning points, and the people within them. Best Lithuanian podcast, LOGIN 2019. Formerly known as NYLA.
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🇮🇪 Podcasts from Ireland 🇮🇪
Tara Connaghan is an Irish traditional fiddle player, podcast host, and writer focused on the social and cultural dynamics of Irish music sessions. She has toured internationally as a musician and has over 30 years of experience playing in Irish traditional music sessions. She is the creator and host of In Tune with Tradition, a podcast examining session etiquette and the unspoken norms that shape traditional music-making. Through her work, she helps musicians better understand how to participate respectfully and confidently in Irish traditional music settings.
In Tune with Tradition: For decades, the social rules of Irish music sessions have been learned quietly, or not at all, passed on through observation, mistakes, and silence. Growing out of years of teaching adult learners and newcomers to the tradition, In Tune with Tradition addresses a subject many musicians have avoided discussing openly: how behavior, humility, and awareness shape the life of a session as much as the tunes themselves. Through conversations with musicians and careful reflection, the podcast gives language to what has long been understood by some, but rarely articulated. Listener feedback suggests the podcast brings relief and clarity, shortening learning curves and resonating not only with musicians, but with anyone curious about what’s really happening when they sit down to listen to a traditional session!
Irish Music Stories: Irish traditional music is often talked about through recordings, styles, and lineages, but less often through the lived experiences of the people who carry it. In Irish Music Stories, Shannon Heaton, based in Boston, invites musicians and singers to tell their own stories, how they came to the music, what shaped them, and what keeps them connected, usually linked with a random theme from her musings. The result is an intimate portrait of a tradition seen through individual lives rather than broad narratives.
Irish Music Memories: As generations of musicians pass, their memories risk fading with them, stories of sessions, dances, tunes, and local music worlds that were never written down. Irish Music Memories is built around first-hand recollections, giving musicians the space to speak in their own voices about what they witnessed and lived. The new podcast acts as an oral archive, preserving personal history as an essential part of the tradition itself and Richie is well placed as an Irish man from a musical family living in Chicago.
Thank you, Tara!
You can connect with her on LinkedIn here.
🚀Events and Opportunities🚀
Radiophrenia Open Call (Scotland)
Radiophrenia announced an open call for sound and transmission artworks for their upcoming broadcasts beginning in September 2026. Radiophrenia is an artist run FM radio station broadcasting in Glasgow and online.They are seeking soundscapes, spoken word pieces, radio experiments, found sound, innovative approaches to drama and documentary, and radical and challenging new programme ideas. The broadcast schedule will include live shows, pre-recorded features and a series of in-studio performances.
When? February 14.
A month-long, residency-style program for people who want to finally make a story they can show. At the heart of it: a 5-day workshop. In-person workshops to kick off the 4 week program: Marseille, Berlin, Cape Town
When? February 25.
A new €2.75 million project seeks to transform European journalism by connecting media professionals with academic experts and industry specialists to improve the quality and sustainability of news reporting across the continent. The Expert Journalism Initiative, led by Journalismfund Europe and the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Riga, will run for 24 months. It aims to address critical challenges facing local, regional, and investigative media outlets through a combination of grants, training programmes, and expert collaboration.
Deadline? March 19.
That’s it for now!
Andreea
Longueur d’Ondes really is a gold mine I’m glad you got to experience it!