What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
5 days ago
What shall it profit a people to lack shame? What does it really profit a nation of over 180 million people to consistently platform and promote individuals with an addiction to humiliation? There comes a time when one must sit back, rest their hands on their head, exhale, and declare that it all doesn’t make […]
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My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
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Aanu Adeoye is a journalist at a major newspaper and author working on his debut nonfiction book about Africa’s emerging geopolitics. Here, he takes us through his use of the internet as both a tool for work and a distraction to be avoided. Who are you? What do you do? Who am I? What a […]
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Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions without being forced or unduly pressured by others.
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With minimum wage sitting at just 70,000 Naira a month, car ownership, electric or not, remains financially out of reach for most young Nigerians facing challenging economic conditions. The numbers simply do not add up for a generation already navigating one of Africa’s most punishing economic climates.
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We hold this truth to be self-evident: That more often than should be, Nigerian athletes, and by extension, African sports persons, are subjected to undeserved scrutiny. This ultimately translates into micro and macro aggressions and outright witch hunts with no basis in factual accuracy. It’s not always immediately obvious. But these detractors bask in the […]
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But for a community like Rap Joint Lagos, NAS’ premonition about the death of Hip-Hop might have come true, leaving us with the “wreckage” of DJs. Founded by Akinwale Irokosu, Rap Joint Lagos began as an online community sometime in 2020 and since then, has become a cultural sanctuary for lovers of Hip-Hop. It is […]
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Sade Onabowale has a lot of opinions. Following her on Instagram is characterized by her expression of her thoughts on the topic du jour in long form. That desire to shape discourse has also now resulted in its own media universe of sorts: a Substack newsletter, a podcast, and a recurring event series. This is […]
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By Lulu Shabell For a long time, I have asked myself the wrong question. I have spent years placing African designers in Porto, Paris, Dubai, New York, and London for international buyers who arrived with their own frameworks of value, selected what resonated with them, and then departed. The work has been meaningful, and I […]
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Monica Cash is becoming part of conversations happening across Nigeria’s crypto community as more people look for safer bitcoin to naira transactions without the stress that often comes with peer to peer trading. Across Nigeria’s digital asset market, users are becoming more cautious about how they handle crypto withdrawals and bitcoin to naira conversions as […]
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As Told By Ada is a Culture Custodian weekly series exploring the unique and often chaotic experience of navigating life as the oldest daughter in a Nigerian household. Over the course of these mini therapy sessions, we give you a peek into the ups, downs and lingering effects of growing up “the first”. I had […]
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Electricity supply in Lagos runs on a visible class system. A building’s power supply is determined by its residents’ economic power. In practice, these bands shape far more than electricity access. They influence where people choose to live, how much they spend on diesel and generators, whether small businesses can survive blackouts, and even how […]
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