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How a Comedian Revived an Old Highlife Song

How a Comedian Revived an Old Highlife Song

On Friday, July 5, 2024, Chukwuebuka Amuzie uploaded a video to his Instagram account, and, because he has performed a variation of this ritual each week since becoming one of Nigeria’s most successful comedians four years ago, he did not think much of it. He certainly did not think that the item uploaded that Friday […]

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How a Comedian Revived an Old Highlife Song

On Friday, July 5, 2024, Chukwuebuka Amuzie uploaded a video to his Instagram account, and, because he has performed a variation of this ritual each week since becoming one of Nigeria’s most successful comedians four years ago, he did not think much of it. He certainly did not think that the item uploaded that Friday […]

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6 months ago

How a Comedian Revived an Old Highlife Song

“Afamefuna” Review: Uncritical Love

Afamefuna: An Nwa Boi Story, Kayode Kasum’s celebratory stab at the nwa boi system, starts at the end and then advances towards the beginning. It starts with the death of Paul (Alex Ekubo), for which a former close friend, Afamefuna (Stan Nze), is questioned by the police. By presenting its ending first, the movie elicits […]

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9 months ago

“Afamefuna” Review: Uncritical Love

Queen Drie Extols Feminine Agency in “Woman”

When Queen Drie was 4, her parents split, leaving her mother with the sole, backbreaking job of raising her and her elder brother. Such were the financial straits they endured that the children sometimes went hungry. Somewhere in young Queen Drie’s mind, an insight was forming: for a woman, it was foolhardy to place all […]

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9 months ago

Queen Drie Extols Feminine Agency in “Woman”

Kugali Media’s and Disney’s “Iwaju” is a Love Letter to Lagos

Two teens begin a friendship made unlikely by their different socioeconomic stations—one lives in the plush Lagos Island, the other in the less glamorous Lagos Mainland. Touring the city’s scruffy parts, the duo encounter a myriad dangers, from which they emerge with new knowledge about themselves and their city. These are the protagonists of Iwaju, an […]

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11 months ago

Kugali Media’s and Disney’s “Iwaju” is a Love Letter to Lagos

“A Tribe Called Judah”: Same Jokes, Only Funnier

Can a crime be justified if it is done to save a loved one’s life, especially when the victim is a bonafide ass-wipe? What happens when a poor, dysfunctional family is compelled to grapple with a terminal, expensive illness? Would it be a rallying force, or a catalyst for their disintegration? These posers undergird A […]

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12 months ago

“A Tribe Called Judah”: Same Jokes, Only Funnier

Interview: Akuchi Wants to Bridge Sonic Cultures

Akuchi’s No Games advocates for persevering in spite of opposition. It is produced by Oladimeji Obiremi, who sets it to a somber Trap beat, one Akuchi matches with rap verses, his tone alternating between defiance and bluster.   Akuchi’s aesthetic rails against convention, with his American-style delivery, a counterintuitive choice at a time when both Nigerian […]

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1 year ago

Interview: Akuchi Wants to Bridge Sonic Cultures

Interview: Babby and Nwafrika Preach a Gospel of Happiness

“Shayo no dey Heaven, so allow me make I chop life,” goes a line in Kowa, encapsulating the song’s hedonism. This call to pleasure and play is set to an equally playful beat bearing the markings of Nigerian street pop. The song even bears the genre’s linguistic character, its lyrics partially delivered in Yoruba. The […]

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1 year ago

Interview: Babby and Nwafrika Preach a Gospel of Happiness
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