Faridah Folawiyo’s Year of Yes
A recurring theme in Folawiyo’s discussion of her work is accessibility, not as a marketing term but as something closer to a personal correction.
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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
A recurring theme in Folawiyo’s discussion of her work is accessibility, not as a marketing term but as something closer to a personal correction.
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In the spirit of culture curation, Culture Custodian has put together a list of the best songs of 2026, so far.
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Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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What shall it profit a people to lack shame? What does it really profit a nation of over 180 million people to consistently platform and promote individuals with an addiction to humiliation? There comes a time when one must sit back, rest their hands on their head, exhale, and declare that it all doesn’t make […]
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My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
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African fiction has never been short on women who refuse to be simple. They lie, scheme, endure, break, and rebuild themselves in ways that this list cannot do justice to, and that’s exactly why they stay with us. These are fifteen characters who got under our skin. Some for their quiet courage, others for their contradictions, and a few because we recognised pieces of ourselves, or someone we know and love, in them. This is not a ranking of the “best” women in African literature, it is a biased list of the ones we have kept thinking about long after we closed the books.
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Some stories outlive the moment they were first told. More than five decades after Diamonds Are Forever introduced audiences to one of James Bond’s most iconic adventures, its legacy is finding new expression—not on screen, but in a bottle of whisky. The Macallan has unveiled the Diamonds Are Forever Limited Release in Nigeria, the latest […]
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Do we exempt older artists from the crusade against ethical gen music AI use?
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There is a particular kind of woman cinema has only recently made room for: the one who is not likeable in any conventional sense, who makes the wrong choice again and again, who loves people who have already decided not to love her back, and who is still, somehow, the moral centre of her own […]
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Successive occupants have transformed a quiet ceremonial position into one of Nigeria’s most recognisable political institutions. When First Lady Oluremi Tinubu recently urged wealthy Nigerian celebrities like Burna Boy, Davido and Asake to establish a foundation to support citizens living in poverty, the public reaction revisited a question that has followed Nigeria’s First Ladies for […]
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Belonwu believes design can become the bridge between local cultural significance and global cultural relevance, the same way it became the bridge between a scrappy Lagos startup and the trust of international investors and users.
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As traditional opposition parties have weakened, the internet has increasingly assumed one of their most important functions
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Did you see Egungun of Lagos’s interview with ishowspeed during his foray to Nigeria earlier this year? The hilarious, yet embarrassing 30-second struggle of an exchange flooded the internet with memes, reactions, and epistles on how unintellectual the Lagos-based socialite, who earns his coins from interviewing beautiful black women ready to turn against the camera […]
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