Showcasing Africans as articulate, expressive, and unapologetically real, while unpacking life between Nigerian ‘Unfiltered’ truth-telling and Canadian ‘Kindness’ culture, exploring where the two-world clash, overlap, and ultimately shape identity, Kindly Unfiltered podcast is set to go live.

This safe space for candid, relatable, and hilarious conversations about the everyday truths such as dating across cultures, navigating identity, and figuring out what “home” really means is produced by Mintslate Media as its first original production.

Billed to officially launch on September 25, with hosts Seyi Oluwatimilehin and Wilson Ifeanyi, Kindly Unfiltered ties into African diaspora storytelling.

The show’s creator and co-host Seyi Oluwatimilehin, better known as Seyi Mint, said: “When Kindly Unfiltered goes live, it won’t sound like anything else in the African diaspora podcast space. This is because it isn’t built for the outside gaze; it’s built for those living the reality.

The gap it fills is 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 reclaims that narrative: showcasing Africans as articulate, expressive, and unapologetically real.”

Oluwatimilehin continued: “The idea is to create a platform where both worlds could exist without apology. 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.”

Before relocating to Canada, Seyi 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.

“It isn’t about sanitising 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,” he said.

The co-host, Wilson Ifeanyi also said: “This podcast is about showing every side of who we are. Not just the struggles, but the laughter, the awkward family moments, the slang, the humour, 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.”