What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
2 weeks ago
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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Aanu Adeoye is a journalist at a major newspaper and author working on his debut nonfiction book about Africa’s emerging geopolitics. Here, he takes us through his use of the internet as both a tool for work and a distraction to be avoided. Who are you? What do you do? Who am I? What a […]
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Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions without being forced or unduly pressured by others.
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As an African, when I walked into Guest Artist Residency (G.A.S) Foundation for Oluwasemilore Delano‘s Sé òrûn ié ârâ? (Is the Sky Skin), the cow-esque paintings immediately transported me. I remembered watching children doodle on walls as they reveal the outline of their artistically-inclined mindset with each unhinged stroke. I thought of the entrapping graffitis […]
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As Told By Ada is a Culture Custodian weekly series exploring the unique and often chaotic experience of navigating life as the oldest daughter in a Nigerian household. Over the course of these mini therapy sessions, we give you a peek into the ups, downs and lingering effects of growing up “the first”. My […]
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There is a version of CKay the internet decided to remember: the soft‑spoken romantic, the emotionally bruised hitmaker behind one of the streaming era’s most recognizable Afrobeats records. For a time that image and the artist were almost inseparable. Love Nwantiti didn’t just succeed; it became a cultural memory. The song travelled continents, infiltrated Billboard […]
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Ochuko Akpovbovbo runs a Substack which sits at the intersection of culture, branding, and internet trends. as seen on covers business, culture, and Gen Z trends, making her a perfect fit for this column on how your favorite internet figures use the internet. Who are you? What do you do? I’m a writer and brand […]
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As the world celebrates the Boy Child this month, Biodun Stephen’s latest work, Teacher’s Boy, offers us a much-needed window into the lives of many male children and some of their struggles as they make their way through society. The Teacher’s Boy tells the story of Romade (Chima Bright Owuama), an emotionally guarded young man […]
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The 12th edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards did more than hand out trophies. The results, the new category structures, and the films that dominated the night all pointed to something larger, a platform that is actively reshaping how African film industries see each other, and how they compete on the global stage. […]
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People who truly understand hospitality know that food is only the beginning. What stays with a guest long after the last bite, what they carry home and describe to a partner, or recount over laughter with friends who were lucky enough to be there, is the feeling. The memory of a place that held them […]
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“You know when people say, e shock me o? That was me when I realized the kind of book I was writing.” Foluso Agbaje did not set out to write a crime novel. At least not consciously. But somewhere in the process of writing The Talk of the Party, her second novel, the story began […]
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