EPISODE · Jun 5, 2026 · 1H 14M
England Saw A Black Man. Africa Saw A Star
from Babes, how did you get here
He came to South Africa for a wedding. He stayed for 10 years — and never looked back. From being invisible in England to becoming a household name across 4 continents, Hakeem Kae-Kazim tells the most unfiltered version of his story yet. Racism in the UK industry. Surviving a car crash in the Namibian desert. Delivering his own baby at 2AM on his couch. Choosing Africa over Hollywood. This episode goes there. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What we cover: Arriving in South Africa for a wedding — and never leaving Why Black actors are quietly escaping England The glass ceiling nobody in the UK wants to admit exists Becoming famous overnight from one TV commercial Don Cheadle inviting him to his house as a nobody The car crash in Namibia that changed everything Delivering his own baby at 2AM with his bare hands Why he chose Cape Town over Hollywood Growing up Nigerian in England — and being told to forget his roots What Africa gave him that England never could The truth about apartheid's shadow still living in South Africa AI, the future of acting, and what nobody in Hollywood is saying Raising three daughters across 4 countries Why he will never move back to England ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REAL TALK: This episode will make you question everything. Some will relate to every single word. Others will strongly disagree. But whether you agree or not — this conversation forces real questions about race, identity, ambition, fatherhood, and what people are silently searching for when they leave home. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TELL US IN THE COMMENTS: Would YOU ever leave your country and never look back? Do you think England gives Black creatives a fair chance? Has living abroad changed the way you see "home"? Drop your thoughts below 👇 We read every single one. Share this with someone secretly thinking about leaving the UK. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About the show — "Babes, How Did You Get Here?" Hosted by entrepreneur & former Miss Jamaica April Jackson, this podcast explores the raw, emotional, and often uncomfortable stories behind people who chose a life elsewhere. New episodes every week from around the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #SouthAfrica #BlackBritish #ExpatLife #LeavingEngland #HakeemKaeKazim #Africa #HotelRwanda #BlackActors #Nollywood #MovingAbroad #Diaspora #Podcast #AprilJackson #BabesHowDidYouGetHere #UKvsAfrica #LifeAbroad #NigerianBritish #BlackExcellence #Fatherhood #Acting #BlackDiaspora #Identity #Hollywood #CapeTowen #AfricanCulture #BlackCreatives
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He came to South Africa for a wedding. He stayed for 10 years — and never looked back. From being invisible in England to becoming a household name across 4 continents, Hakeem Kae-Kazim tells the most unfiltered version of his story yet. Racism in the UK industry. Surviving a car crash in the Namibian desert. Delivering his own baby at 2AM on his couch. Choosing Africa over Hollywood. This episode goes there. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What we cover: Arriving in South Africa for a wedding — and never leaving Why Black actors are quietly escaping England The glass ceiling nobody in the UK wants to admit exists Becoming famous overnight from one TV commercial Don Cheadle inviting him to his house as a nobody The car crash in Namibia that changed everything Delivering his own baby at 2AM with his bare hands Why he chose Cape Town over Hollywood Growing up Nigerian in England — and being told to forget his roots What Africa gave him that England never could The truth about apartheid's shadow still living in South Africa AI, the future of acting, and what nobody in Hollywood is saying Raising three daughters across 4 countries Why he will never move back to England ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REAL TALK: This episode will make you question everything. Some will relate to every single word. Others will strongly disagree. But whether you agree or not — this conversation forces real questions about race, identity, ambition, fatherhood, and what people are silently searching for when they leave home. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TELL US IN THE COMMENTS: Would YOU ever leave your country and never look back? Do you think England gives Black creatives a fair chance? Has living abroad changed the way you see "home"? Drop your thoughts below 👇 We read every single one. Share this with someone secretly thinking about leaving the UK. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About the show — "Babes, How Did You Get Here?" Hosted by entrepreneur & former Miss Jamaica April Jackson, this podcast explores the raw, emotional, and often uncomfortable stories behind people who chose a life elsewhere. New episodes every week from around the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #SouthAfrica #BlackBritish #ExpatLife #LeavingEngland #HakeemKaeKazim #Africa #HotelRwanda #BlackActors #Nollywood #MovingAbroad #Diaspora #Podcast #AprilJackson #BabesHowDidYouGetHere #UKvsAfrica #LifeAbroad #NigerianBritish #BlackExcellence #Fatherhood #Acting #BlackDiaspora #Identity #Hollywood #CapeTowen #AfricanCulture #BlackCreatives
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