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Chibuzo Emmanuel

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Emmanuel Chibuzo is a staff writer for Culture Custodian. His intense, and oftentimes contemplative, writing confronts relevant questions within arts and culture, and how these seemingly grand issues touch on universal themes.

Examining Odumodublvck’s Claims of Cultural Impact

Examining Odumodublvck’s Claims of Cultural Impact

“Which line, let them bring it out, has had more impact than that like on Cast,” Odumodublvck asks in a radio interview with Beat 99.9FM’s Osi Suave. “Which Hip Hop song,” he continues, “has had more cultural impact, in the last 20 years? Brother in the history of Nigerian Hip Hop, no song has had […]

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Examining Odumodublvck’s Claims of Cultural Impact

“Which line, let them bring it out, has had more impact than that like on Cast,” Odumodublvck asks in a radio interview with Beat 99.9FM’s Osi Suave. “Which Hip Hop song,” he continues, “has had more cultural impact, in the last 20 years? Brother in the history of Nigerian Hip Hop, no song has had […]

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4 days ago

Examining Odumodublvck’s Claims of Cultural Impact

The Forces Shaping Music Marketing in 2025

If the big question for the Nigerian music industry last year was: “Where are the breakout stars who will suffuse the scene with new life?”; the question that looms over the scene today, with increasing intensity every passing minute, is: what is the latest frontier, the bleeding edge of innovation, regarding music marketing in the […]

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The Forces Shaping Music Marketing in 2025

The Rift Between Amaarae and Gabriel Moses Highlights The Pervasive Irreverence for IP among Creatives

In the creative world, where ideas function both as a thrust and social currency, there are very few topics as relevant, enduring, and contentious as intellectual property theft. In these fraught times we live in, where A.I. models ceaselessly prowl the internet, scrapping data and, more importantly, intellectual property, seemingly with rollicking abandon, the topic […]

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The Rift Between Amaarae and Gabriel Moses Highlights The Pervasive Irreverence for IP among Creatives

Wizkid’s Promise is Pleasure

A significant portion of Wizkid’s imminent HBO documentary Wizkid: Long Live Lagos is devoted to excavating the suffocating grief that arrived in the wake of his mother’s passing. As the documentary reveals, on the day of his historic show at the 60,000-capacity Tottenham Stadium, his mother, Morayo Balogun, was undergoing an emergency surgery. In clips […]

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Wizkid’s Promise is Pleasure

We Need Better Men In Our Society

“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 […]

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We Need Better Men In Our Society

“Paradise Now” is Obongjayar’s Journey to Catharsis

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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3 weeks ago

“Paradise Now” is Obongjayar’s Journey to Catharsis

Nigeria’s Educational Sector is Facing Its Worst Existential Crisis

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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Nigeria’s Educational Sector is Facing Its Worst Existential Crisis
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