Odisea

Odisea 05: Beyond the nation-state with Chika Uwazie

Episode Summary

Welcome back to another instalment of Odisea, frens. This episode is with Chika Uwazie, the Co-Founder of Afropolitan. Afropolitan is creating a digital nation to empower the African diaspora to build community, support one another, and build the future together. In this conversation, we break down Chika’s story, the founding story of Afropolitan, and explore the wider need for crypto in the global south. If you’d like to join us along this journey, you can: Join the Odisea Community on Telegram 💬: https://marcus.am/tg Subscribe and Mint the Odisea launch NFT on Mirror 💎: https://marcus.mirror.xyz/n6OpgyB1tz_... If you want to connect directly, reach out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marcusdotam Odisea is produced with the support of Safe and Ambire Wallet. Safe (https://safe.global) (previously Gnosis Safe) is a decentralized custody protocol, securing ~$60 Billion in assets today. It is establishing a universal standard for secure custody of digital assets, data, and identity. Ambire Wallet (https://ambire.com) is an account abstraction-based, self-custodial gateway to Web3 that introduces a range of impressive features like transaction batching, a pre-payment mechanism, and the ability to pay gas fees in stablecoins. By being accessible on both mobile and desktop devices, with a browser extension version on the horizon, Ambire Wallet aims at streamlining the user experience and ensure convenience across different platforms.