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
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
She steals from the gods the power of resurrection, and then raises her beloved from the dead. Then she bequeaths the loot to him, with which he builds a reputation
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,
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
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,
“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
Harrow Park, a private golf course in Abuja, teemed with fashionistas on December 10, 2023. They had come for the food, the cocktail, but most of all for Africana Xperience,
Sir Victor Uwaifo, the late great Nigerian musician, once confessed seeing Mami Wata as he sat strumming a guitar on a beach, in Lagos, in the 1960s. That incredulous encounter,
“Óbito! Óbito!” a section of the audience cried on Saturday night at an expansive hall at the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub, in Benin City. This was at the award ceremony
Braving a harmattan haze on Thursday morning, filmmakers and press members gathered at the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub, in Benin, for an interactive session, on the first day of the
Nigerian football, specifically the Super Eagles—the Nigerian senior male football team—has experienced only lows and lows in recent times. From failing to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
The Hopi believe that Kokopelli, a humpbacked fertility god, carries unborn children on his back and goes about distributing them to barren women. In some other Native American cultures, he
You could scarcely escape the Madam Koi Koi ghost stories if you attended a Nigerian secondary school in the ‘90s and aughts. Several versions of the story exist, no doubt
Ayakeme Udokang typically listens to music as she works. Fittingly, music has brought her work its most attention yet. In late March 2019, a crowd of about five thousand gathered