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Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

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Examining Wande Coal’s Influence on Afropop’s Golden Age

Examining Wande Coal’s Influence on Afropop’s Golden Age

Tucked into Adedamola, Fireboy’s latest album, the YBNL singer pays homage to Afropop ace Wande Coal with the aptly titled Wande’s Bop, surfing on a beat that looks cross-bred from Ashimapeyin and The Kick from many years ago. It is the second time the former Mohits star is getting such a reference from an artist […]

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Examining Wande Coal’s Influence on Afropop’s Golden Age

Tucked into Adedamola, Fireboy’s latest album, the YBNL singer pays homage to Afropop ace Wande Coal with the aptly titled Wande’s Bop, surfing on a beat that looks cross-bred from Ashimapeyin and The Kick from many years ago. It is the second time the former Mohits star is getting such a reference from an artist […]

Patrick Ezema

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1 month ago

Examining Wande Coal’s Influence on Afropop’s Golden Age

Isoken: Notes on Feminism, Marriage and Contrived Standards of Perfection

‘One minute you’re a star student and the next, you feel like you failed at some life exam.’   ******************************************************  In her directorial debut, Osiberu explores the trouble with socio-cultural expectations and loving as one chooses. Dakore Akande plays Isoken, a successful 34-year old woman, who happens to be unmarried; much to her mother’s chagrin. […]

Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

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7 years ago

Isoken: Notes on Feminism, Marriage and Contrived Standards of Perfection

Happiness is Sometimes a Mad Dream.

The loss of a parent is a common enough thing, but the loss of a child is an unimaginable grief. In Roti, Kunle Afolayan explores this trauma, against a backdrop of traditional religious belief. By casting his own son as Roti (around whom the entire story is centred), Afolayan intentionally – or perhaps not – adds […]

Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

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7 years ago

Happiness is Sometimes a Mad Dream.

Homecoming Series #10

On: moving home, sexual agency, politics, poverty and the complexity that constitutes a nation. Since moving back home to Nigeria, I have learned and lost. I learn everyday. Yet, right until my last year at University, I never believed I would come to think of Nigeria as home. I was in the United Kingdom to […]

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9 years ago

Homecoming Series #10

Nne’mo

He was gone and weeks passed and he had taken and claimed her heart we grew thin but I had her love; it took the place of bread. And then my mother tired of tears and slowly strength returned to her smile, to her words and to her eyes. I was tiny but I remember: […]

Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

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10 years ago

Nne’mo