Wale Oloworekende, Author at The Culture Custodian (Est. 2014)

Da Grin Made It Okay To Rap In Yoruba – And Other Indigenous Languages

April 22, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

Yoruba – indigenous – rap became ubiquitous in the 2010s, but it wasn’t always that way. Nigerian hip-hop has constantly been at unrest with its identity from the start point,

Film & TV

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu to anchor new reality courtroom TV show Judging Matters

April 13, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

Popular media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, has announced that he is set to anchor a new Nigerian reality courtroom TV show. Obi-Uchendu, famous for his role as the host of Big

Music

Cent Remmy Flexes Pop Credo on ‘Aye’

April 11, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

The increasing democratization of Nigeria’s music space means that artistes who deliver entirely or significantly in local dialects will always have a path into the mainstream if their music connects

Music

Damola Davis Confronts A Complicated Relationship on ‘Vacationship’

April 11, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

Complicated relationships are an unavoidable side-effect of living that affects everyone. In his latest single, up-and-coming Damola Davis, playfully confronts the angst and emotional turmoil of romance on Vacationship. Built

Music

Yinka Oshodi Brings Lustrous Energy To ‘On Your Way’

April 11, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

The farther you look away from the Nigerian mainstream, the more cohesive and symmetrically attuned the music starts to feel and sound. The new Yinka Oshodi single, On Your Way,

Feature News & Politics

#CoronaDiaries: The Investment Banker Tired of Being Homebound

April 10, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

Navigating Coronavirus.

Feature Music

So, Let’s Talk About Poe

April 9, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

Ladipoe is observing the trajectory of the sun carefully. He takes some photos half-heartedly but belatedly motions to a position on the balcony where he thinks the sun could align

Feature Music

Lockdown Care Package: Two Music Writers Talk About First Quarter Music

April 9, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

A conversation reviewing music in the first quarter of the year and the lockdown.

Feature Music

#CoronaDiaries: An Up-and-Coming Musician talks about life during the COVID-19 Lockdown

April 7, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

Navigating Coronavirus

Feature Film & TV

#CoronaDiaries: The Film Producer With the Shuttered Film

April 7, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

Only a month ago, life in Lagos was the usual mix of chaotic rowdiness and nonchalant revelry that characterizes the city. People went about their business as routinely as possible

Feature Music

The Righteous Profanity of Brymo

April 1, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

by Michael Kolawole It’s effective to think of Brymo’s music in each of these ways: as affirmations of deep-rooted personal ideology, enigmatic and beautiful lyrical poetry, equations of balanced ribaldry

Feature Music

Sarz vs Shizzi: Nostalgia Forever

April 1, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

The Producer Soundclash highlights the role of nostalgia in these perilous times.

Music

Nasty C signs with Def Jam Recordings, releases video for There They Go

March 27, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

The South African music industry might pale in terms of soft power to the Nigerian industry but what it lacks in that regard, it makes up for in terms of

Feature Music

Nigerian Popstars Need To Leave Obesere Alone

March 24, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

The most peeving thing about Nigerian – world, more likely – popular culture is that whatsoever hits widespread imagination, will, ultimately die. The fleeting nature of that rush is a

Film & TV

Watch the trailer for avant-garde Black Lady Goddess

March 24, 2020 by Wale Oloworekende

Black Lady Goddess, a humorous avant-garde time period drama about a female black God, has shared its colourful official trailer. The soon-to-be-released show is set in 2040, and described as