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Despite his embattled situation, writing Wizkid off is a bit premature, he still has a huge fanbase and the talent to command rave reviews from critics.
2 months ago
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 […]
6 days ago
To open 5ive, the poet Alhanislam recites a spoken-word commentary on the album and the man behind it. It feels a little pretentious, rooted in the same idea that drives artists to label every new project their deepest and most personal work yet. Yet some of it does have grounding in real-life events. Alhanislam hails […]
2 months ago
Last weekend, the youngest of the Uzama brothers, Osahan Uzama, more known by his moniker, Famous Pluto, joined the ranks of his brothers—Shallipopi, and Zerry DL, both fierce advocates of Benin Street Pop—with the release of his feverishly anticipated single Na Scra. Before its official release, the song had been making the rounds on TikTok, […]
3 months ago
The wooden chair wobbled as seven-year-old Jola Ayeye hunched over a page, pencil gripped tight, tongue peeking out in concentration. Around her, the floor was a patchwork of unfinished stories, half-colored sketches, and a notebook filled with lyrics to songs no one else knew. “What do you want to be when you grow up, Jola?” […]
4 months ago
May is a month of fresh starts, shifting rhythms, and new stories to dive into. This carefully curated list centers Nigerian women at the heart of powerful narratives, tracing their journeys through love, tradition, resistance, and rebirth. Two books by the same author appear here intentionally, both are seminal classics that continue to shape conversations […]
2 months ago
Nigeria is no stranger to controversial and often inane rhetoric from its preachers. In 2020, whilst the entire country shuddered under the weight of an inscrutable pandemic whose full impacts were yet unknown, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, the founder and head pastor of Christ Embassy, took to the pulpit to echo some rabid conspiracy about the […]
2 months ago
The 17th edition of the Headies, Nigeria’s premier music award, was held on Sunday, and as usual, it was a festive music event, featuring both freshly minted stars and music legends alike vying for their own iconic Headies plaque. It also saw the return of the many drawbacks that we must now assume to be […]
2 months ago
On April 19th, 2014, during the Easter celebrations, Nnamdi Kanaga received an invitation to grief after he got a call informing him that one of his brothers, Peter, a university freshman at the time, had drowned. Six years after his initial bereavement, Kanaga lost his father. The psychological impact of these experiences seem to weigh […]
2 months ago
The 17th edition of The Headies was held on Sunday night and it came complete with the standard fare of problems. The production was characteristically abysmal. The broadcast feed could as well have been from the 1980s. Tardiness was a problem, as usual. It’s almost like the entire concept of time was lost on the […]
2 months ago
The carnival tradition of the returnees evolved into the Lagos Fanti Carnival or Caretta Parade. The carnival inflects Brazilian carnival traditions with local Yoruba and Nigerian traditions, creating an event that feels authentic to Nigeria while celebrating the Brazilian heritage of the Agudas.
2 months ago
Since Rema’s Coachella performance on Sunday, social media has been whirring with commentary that runs the gamut from scathing polemics to concerned questioning. 30 minutes past the scheduled starting time for his 45-minute set, Rema waltzed onto the stage at the Mojave tent wearing a cropped white tee and dark jeans. As he skulked on […]
2 months ago
When, in March of 2024, the preternaturally gifted Rigo Kamp took the stage at The Native’s uNder Live show at Miliki, Lagos, the atmosphere tangibly shifted. The stage was still adorned with lush foliage and embroidered tapestries. And yet it suddenly felt as though the sheer force of his music had transported the crowd to […]
3 months ago
