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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.

Why Twitter Got So Angry

Why Twitter Got So Angry

If you’re even moderately active on the social media platform called  X, otherwise known as Twitter, you’d attest to the fact that for a while now the platform has felt different; more volatile; a mound of dry tinder ever poised to burst into flames. The platform has always had the reputation of functioning as a […]

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Why Twitter Got So Angry

If you’re even moderately active on the social media platform called  X, otherwise known as Twitter, you’d attest to the fact that for a while now the platform has felt different; more volatile; a mound of dry tinder ever poised to burst into flames. The platform has always had the reputation of functioning as a […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

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4 days ago

Why Twitter Got So Angry

Burna Boy’s Album Rollout Is A Breath of Fresh Air

If you had referred to Burna Boy’s current album rollout as masterful or exemplary in 2019, there’s a good chance that you’d have been met with contemptuous sneering. The reality, however, is that the Afropop landscape today is radically different. Top labels struggle to break new acts or roll out songs and projects successfully. Leading […]

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5 days ago

Burna Boy’s Album Rollout Is A Breath of Fresh Air

Ayra Starr Raises Questions About The Limitations of Cancel Culture

Socially conscious internet denizens say that they have the power to mete out justice to erring public figures. They say they can irrevocably deplete the social currency of these transgressors, so much so that they would be reduced to pariahs, outcasts, castaways. Cancellation is the term. To cancel is to render someone an outsider to […]

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1 week ago

Ayra Starr Raises Questions About The Limitations of Cancel Culture

Afrobeats’ Misogyny Problem Reflects Nigerian Society

Some days ago, a snippet Ruger had posted prompted a maelstrom of public furor. The snippet opens with the lines “If a girl worry me I delete her/ Put her inside the bin bag/ So why won’t she be bitter.”  The range of criticisms levied against him have accused him of promoting femicide, a crisis […]

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2 weeks ago

Afrobeats’ Misogyny Problem Reflects Nigerian Society
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