By Testimony Adebisi
Copyright independent
With efforts to bridge continents and cultures, Mintslate Media is set to disrupt the African diaspora podcast space with its inaugural production, Kindly Unfiltered podcast. Officially launched on September 25, 2025, with hosts Seyi Oluwatimilehin and Wilson Ifeanyi, the show promises to be unlike anything else currently available.
According to Mintslate Media, ‘Kindly Unfiltered’ isn’t planned to sound like anything else in the African diaspora podcast space. The show unpacks life between the Nigerian “Unfiltered” nature of truth-telling, where directness and honesty are paramount, as against Canadian “Kindness” culture which emphasises politeness and consideration.
The podcast is looking to explore conversation around these world clashes, the overlaps, and offering a safe space for candid, relatable, and often hilarious conversations about the everyday truths that rarely make the headlines: dating across cultures, navigating identity, and figuring out what “home” really means. Listeners can expect to find their own experiences reflected and validated in these discussions.
The core of ‘Kindly Unfiltered’ ties into African diaspora storytelling. Filling the gap of “representation—representing ourselves by ourselves.” Too often in the diaspora, Africans are misrepresented, with accents we don’t actually speak or portrayals that don’t reflect who we really are. By combining blunt honesty with the richness of African culture, the show boldly reclaims that narrative, painting a vibrant and authentic portrait: showcasing Africans as articulate, expressive, and unapologetically real.
“I wanted to create a platform where both worlds could exist without apology,” says Seyi Oluwatimilehin, better known as Seyi Mint, the show’s creator and co-host. “In Lagos, you say it as it is. In Toronto, kindness is almost a national language. Kindly Unfiltered lives in the middle of that. But more than anything, it’s about representation, us representing ourselves, by ourselves, so the world finally sees us as we are.”
Seyi’s journey gives him a unique vantage point for this cultural balancing act. Before relocating to Canada, he was a Nollywood actor, best known for his role as Dexter in Back to School by Bovi Ugboma, before transitioning behind the camera. Over the past eight years, he has worked on more than 40 film and television projects, honing a producer’s instinct for authenticity and emotional truth.
That instinct shapes Kindly Unfiltered. While the conversations flow with humor and warmth, the show’s core is empathy. It isn’t about sanitizing immigrant stories to make them palatable, nor is it about sensationalising them for drama. Instead, it embraces the nuance: the awkward, the joyful, the complex.
“This podcast is about showing every side of who we are,” adds co-host Wilson Ifeanyi. “Not just the struggles, but the laughter, the awkward family moments, the slang, the humor, the things that make us whole. Too often, those parts of our lives are left out of the narrative. Kindly Unfiltered gives them the spotlight.”
With Kindly Unfiltered, Mintslate Media, Seyi Mint, and co-host Wilson are creating a living archive of diaspora voices: layered, authentic, and above all, real. Join the conversation that will be available across all major podcast platforms.
