Despite his embattled situation, writing Wizkid off is a bit premature, he still has a huge fanbase and the talent to command rave reviews from critics.
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“For I think that to be beaten and to be put to death is sometimes better than to do what is wrong,” Socrates says in Plato’s Georgias. This pithy statement encapsulates the Socratic view on masculinity, which resists the Homeric obsession with honor through violence. In his day, Socrates’ single-minded focus on moral integrity as […]
2 days ago
In a clip making the rounds on social media, Mr Farooq Oreagba rhapsodizes about how his eldest son, who before the spectacle of last year’s famed Ojude Oba procession had little interest in the time-honored festival, intimated his desire to participate in this year’s edition of the festival. Oreagba is slouched in a chair, his […]
4 days ago
Much of the pleasure of listening to an Obongjayar project comes from watching the artist slowly unravel like a soap opera’s protagonist. On stage, he’s a frenzied animal, a shaman under the thrall of ancestral spirits, singing and dancing with wild energy. Somehow, his recorded music manages to pack that same urgency, that primal energy […]
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In one particular harrowing clip that has gained virality on social media, students, who had been scheduled to write the English examination of this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), can be seen shuffling around a dimly lit classroom agitatedly, lighting candles to ward off the onslaught of darkness: as of around 7pm […]
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At least 200 people have died after deadly floods hit the central Niger town of Mokwa on Thursday. Thousands have also been displaced and officials place the missing count at 500. Musa Kimboku told the BBC that rescue efforts have ceased because authorities doubt that anyone can be found alive given the extent of the […]
2 weeks ago
The past few months have seen Burna Boy steadily ramp up the roll out of his imminent eighth album, No Sign of Weakness, and with four singles leading up to its release, the album feels tangibly close. In the case of albums without sufficient lead singles, speculating about the artist’s direction with the project usually […]
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On the 26th of May, South African popstar Tyla beat an all-Nigerian lineup, including Wizkid, Asake, Tems, and Rema, to win the Favorite Afrobeats Artist category at the 51st edition of the American Music Awards. Her win has expectedly stirred a maelstrom of debates and public discourse about her deservedness given that Tyla, while being […]
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“Love is the only reality, and it’s not a mere sentiment. It’s the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” This beautiful quote by the vaunted Bengali playwright and poet Rabindranath Tagore puts forward a weighted cosmological argument for love. Love, Tagore contends, is more than a feeling, it’s instead the upholstery upon […]
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