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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent

“Starrgirl”: Ayra Starr Trades Becoming for Being

In Starrgirl, Ayra Starr does not ask you to reconsider Ayra Starr. She assumes you already know who she is and expects you to keep up. The title alone sends listeners a message before they press play. Her first two records were titled around age — 19 & Dangerous introduced a fearless, fast-talking teenager; The […]

Anjola Akinmade

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1 month ago

“Starrgirl”: Ayra Starr Trades Becoming for Being

S16 Film Festival 2025: Rete Poki’s “Traces of The Sun” Confronts Institutionalised Performances of Love

African societies are popular for their communal arrangements where people are bound together in close-knit units such as family, peer groups and religious gatherings. Within such systems, duties are expected and responsibilities are distributed, and the very understanding of love itself emanates from one’s commitment to these realities. This is why, love, for many of […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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10 months ago

S16 Film Festival 2025: Rete Poki’s “Traces of The Sun” Confronts Institutionalised Performances of Love

S16 Film Festival 2025: Barnabas Ayo-Ilekhaize Revists The Path To “Journeys of Singleness”  

Journeys of Singleness, a short film written, directed and edited by Barnabas Ayo-Ilekhaize, gives a hint of the distrust and dishonesty that characterises modern youth-centric relationships. It follows Ifebuche, a young lady with an arid romantic life and a job she is displeased with, whose friend introduces her to a potential interest, Gideon. Ifebuche begins […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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10 months ago

S16 Film Festival 2025: Barnabas Ayo-Ilekhaize Revists The Path To “Journeys of Singleness”  

“The Ascension” Is Sixties’ Spiritual and Sonic Emergence

The Ascension is the 12-track debut album from fast-rising Afrobeats singer Sixties, marking a defining moment in an artistic journey shaped by years of carefully released singles dating back to 2020. Released under the African record label AfroMarvel Ent., the project reveals the artist’s personal pledge to the craft of storytelling through music. With The […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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10 months ago

“The Ascension” Is Sixties’ Spiritual and Sonic Emergence

Swaggy Mo’s Deportation: What It Says About The Increased Foreign Interest In Detty December  

A series of videos posted on Instagram two days ago by Gambian-Senegalese model and content creator, Mohamet “Swaggy Mo” Mbaye, based in the United States, has stirred feverish conversation on social media, prompting pertinent questions about Nigerian immigration personnel and the country’s civil service writ large. “I don’t think I will ever step foot in […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

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10 months ago

Swaggy Mo’s Deportation: What It Says About The Increased Foreign Interest In Detty December  

Inside Seun Anikulapo-Kuti’s Quest for Liberation

“I don’t really like to use the word activism, because activism is a bastardized word.” Over a Google Meet, Seun Anikulapo-Kuti tells me why he prefers the word liberation to activism. At first, one may think it’s a semantic choice, but the more you speak to Kuti, the more you understand his philosophical ideals. His […]

Shalom Tewobola

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10 months ago

Inside Seun Anikulapo-Kuti’s Quest for Liberation
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