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If it seems like every other day, another Nigerian celebrity creative succumbs to alarming depths of vacuous thought and action, even as we face multiple crises, then it is because this is our current shameful reality. Somewhere along the pop culture highway, the pedestal-ed few, from film to music and literature, collectively abandoned the reins […]
3 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 […]
3 weeks ago
Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions without being forced or unduly pressured by others.
3 months ago
Days into 2026, quips about 2026 being the new 2016 began to circulate on social media. In a sense, this gestured at Gen Z’s relentless penchant for nostalgia, a phenomenon that’s as palpable in the music of the day as it is in fashion. It also doubles as a pun, or a meme, if you […]
4 months ago
There’s a gnawing sense of unease that comes with listening to Seyi Vibez’ latest album Fuji Moto. The album’s title and branding suggest a modern interpretation, if reinvention, of Fuji, a genre whose influence on contemporary Nigerian Pop cannot be overstated but which has also been eluded by the burst of new life that genres […]
7 months ago
On the night of November, 6, 2025, Blaqbonez returned to his alma mater, the Obafemi Awolowo University, taking the stage of the university’s 8000-seater Amphitheater. He had left the school as an obscure battle rapper, whose proclivity for whimsy and gaunt affect seemed at odds with his chosen career path. Now he was returning arguably […]
7 months ago
On September 9, 2024, Fuad Lawal, chief archivist at Archivi.ng, issued a compelling summons. His call reached out to historians, journalists, filmmakers, writers, and anyone driven to understand the complexities of Nigerian history better. Dubbed The Archivi.ng Fellowship, the initiative posed a question: What stories and perspectives are hidden in Nigeria’s archives, waiting to be […]
7 months ago
On the 13th of November, Twitter user Maki (@makispoke) posted a series of statements that quickly became the centre of online discussion. She began with a vague but pointed observation about wealthy “progressives” who mistreat domestic staff. Soon after, she narrowed her focus to a particular individual; someone she described as misogynistic, someone whose public […]
7 months ago
Since Champz, real name Boluwatife Balogun, released his debut EP Champion’s Arrival on Tuesday, November 11, the records have been rolling in like a cascade of dominoes. 1 million Spotify streams in less than 24 hours. 122,000 monthly listeners in that span. The youngest artist to debut on the UK Apple Music Top Albums chart, […]
7 months ago
On the evening of October 7, 2025, when the The Recording Academy began to issue the first set of nominations for the 68th Grammy Awards, set to take place on Sunday, February 1, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the internet seemed to wait with bated breath as music fans across the world anticipated […]
7 months ago
The rollout for AFRIKA MAGIK, the cheeky, nostalgia-addled title of Show Dem Camp’s 12th studio album, really began in earnest when they posted on X a recreation of a popular meme from a scene in an old Nollywood film in which, in a show of smoldering machismo, actors Jim Iyke and Mike Ezuronye douse each […]
7 months ago
One of Lagos’s cultural cornerstones, Book Buzz Foundation, is gearing up to host another edition of the Ake Arts and Book Festival. This November, the festival’s reach extends further than ever before, with Book Buzz Foundation Director Lola Shoneyin announcing an impressive roster of 67 international guests representing 17 nations, from Ukraine and Palestine to […]
7 months ago
