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oluor

African Stories.
Unfiltered.

Oluor is a podcast network built for African storytelling — developing and distributing original shows in English, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Pidgin, and more. From Abuja, across the continent.

12

Shows

7+

Languages

150k

Monthly listeners

15+

Countries

Podcast recording studio with professional microphone

Now streaming

On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and 10+ platforms

A network, not a hosting platform.

There are hundreds of Africans making podcasts and publishing them independently. Most are doing it without editorial development, without production infrastructure, without advertising relationships, and without an audience they did not build from scratch. The result is a large number of shows that start strong and quietly disappear after twelve episodes.

Oluor is built around the parts of podcast production that individual creators struggle to do alone. We develop show concepts editorially — format, structure, episode architecture — before a single episode is recorded. We provide production support where it is needed. We bring advertising relationships that require a network to access. And we distribute to an audience that exists before the show launches.

That is what a network is. Not a platform that hosts your RSS feed. A development and distribution partner with an editorial position, an audience, and a revenue model.

Not all African stories fit in the same language.

A grandmother in Kano telling the story of her market — forty years of trading, three coups, the arrival of mobile money — that story lives in Hausa. A fiction series set in colonial Lagos, following a family across three generations, breathes in Yoruba.

Oluor produces in the language each story requires. English where English is the natural medium. Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and Pidgin where they are not. French and Swahili where the story reaches across West and East Africa. Language is an editorial decision, not a market one.

English
Yoruba
Igbo
Hausa
Pidgin
French
Swahili
Ga, Zulu + others

From pitch to audience.

Step 1

Creator pitch

Concept, format, and language. Open submissions year-round.

Step 2

Development

Editorial and format work with the Oluor team before recording begins.

Step 3

Production

Studio or remote recording with full post-production support.

Step 4

Distribution

Spotify, Apple, and the Oluor network audience from day one.

Who listens to Oluor.

Verified audience data, Q2 2026.

Age

18–44

78% of listeners

Education

85%

University educated

Platforms

Spotify

Apple

+12 others

Top markets

NG, GH, KE

ZA, GB, US

Avg. listening

42

min per episode

Completion: 82%

Full audience data for advertisers →
Creator recording a podcast

Creators

If you have a story you want to tell and want a development partner with production infrastructure, an existing audience, and advertising relationships — bring it to Oluor. You keep your concept.

Submit a show →
Brand partnership meeting

Advertisers

Reach educated, urban, digitally engaged African and diaspora audiences through audio — in the language they choose to listen in, hosted by voices they trust.

Advertise with Oluor →

Have a show concept?

Send us the idea — format, language, audience, and why you are the person to make it. We respond to every submission.

Submit a show concept