Olajide Adejumo – Between basketball and media studies
From Lagos to Petaling Jaya, Ben Adejumo is balancing a high-stakes basketball scholarship with life as a student in Malaysia. Discover how "wealth comes in the morning" for this athlete as he navigates tight schedules, social life, and breaking stereotypes.
While he may not technically be an expat yet, Olajide (Ben) Adejumo, a student of HELP University on a sports (basketball) scholarship from Nigeria, shares and experiences a lot of what expats do.
In this episode of the Other Expats podcast, Ben talks about similarities and differences between living in Malaysia and the motherland, making friends, and juggling his extremely tight schedule.
Name: Olajide (Ben) Adejumo
What I do: Media studies student and basketballer
Things I like: Basketball
Where I’m from: Lagos, Nigeria
Where I live: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Stuff we talked about
01.06: Who is Olajide? BTW, Olajide is Yoruba for wealth comes in the morning
07.04: What adjustments did he need to make moving to Malaysia on a sports scholarship?
17.11: “My social life is basketball,” says Ben, who shuffles between basketball practice and games and studies
21.00: The conditions that come with a sports scholarship don’t allow for any laziness. “You constantly have to be on your toes.”
28.36: Being judged before we are known
The Other Expats’ sound design is by the Big Mean Sound Machine, and the intro was created by Small Room Productions.
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