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Chibuzo Emmanuel

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Emmanuel Chibuzo is a staff writer for The Culture Custodian. His intense, essayistic writing confronts pertinent questions within arts and culture, and how these seemingly grand issues form a thread that tethers to the human experience.

The Uzama Brothers Are Wearing Their City on Their Sleeves

The Uzama Brothers Are Wearing Their City on Their Sleeves

Last weekend,  the youngest of the Uzama brothers, Osahan Uzama, more known by his moniker, Famous Pluto, joined the ranks of his brothers—Shallipopi, and Zerry DL, both fierce advocates of Benin Street Pop—with the release of his feverishly anticipated single Na Scra. Before its official release, the song had been making the rounds on TikTok, […]

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How #Corruptok is Using Humor To Spotlight Tinubu’s Ineptitude

Ever since Raye broke the internet two weeks ago with her affecting critique of President Tinubu’s administration, Nigerians have increasingly taken to lamenting the record levels of hardship that President Tinubu’s administration has heralded. While, in a sense, this torrent of public furor reflects the terrible state of the country, it also at once suggests […]

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How #Corruptok is Using Humor To Spotlight Tinubu’s Ineptitude

Contrary to What Cynics Say, Your Voice on Social Media Matters

The past few days have witnessed a maelstrom of complaints about the unrelenting hardships that have blighted Nigeria under President Tinubu’s administration. Social media is riddled with complaints that range from the price of petrol to the obscenely expensive price of food, to the contemptuous state of infrastructure in the country. This is not to […]

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Contrary to What Cynics Say, Your Voice on Social Media Matters

The Uzama Brothers Are Wearing Their City on Their Sleeves

Last weekend,  the youngest of the Uzama brothers, Osahan Uzama, more known by his moniker, Famous Pluto, joined the ranks of his brothers—Shallipopi, and Zerry DL, both fierce advocates of Benin Street Pop—with the release of his feverishly anticipated single Na Scra. Before its official release, the song had been making the rounds on TikTok, […]

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The Uzama Brothers Are Wearing Their City on Their Sleeves

This Year’s Edition of The Annual Nigerian Hip-Hop Rumble Has Arrived

Not a single year passes in the Nigerian music scene without a heated public conversation either on the relevancy of Hip Hop in these parts or obscure discussions about certain technicalities around the Nigerian Hip Hop orthodoxy. Hip Hop enthusiasts would remember 2022, when Psycho YP took swipes at “Rap OGs,” essentially crowning himself the […]

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2 weeks ago

This Year’s Edition of The Annual Nigerian Hip-Hop Rumble Has Arrived

Kadaria Ahmed: A Champion For Truth In a World That Silences Women

Throughout her illustrious career, Kadaria Ahmed has been rightly lauded for her contribution to advancing journalism in Nigeria’s fraught media landscape. But in light of her identity as a woman—having to bristle against the patriarchal strictures intrinsic to Nigeria’s media landscape—her work takes on deeper significance. Born in 1967, Ahmed led an ambitious academic career […]

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2 weeks ago

Kadaria Ahmed: A Champion For Truth In a World That Silences Women

How to Defeat The Feeling of Helplessness Over Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s Persecution

Few plenary sessions have generated the kind of controversy that stirred on Thursday last week when Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for six months, after accusing Senate President Godswill Akpabio of sexually harassing her in 2023. Her suspension—which came after The Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Public Petitions hastily dismissed her petition […]

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How to Defeat The Feeling of Helplessness Over Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s Persecution
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