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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

15 of Our Favourite Female Characters in African Fiction

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.

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

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2 months ago

15 of Our Favourite Female Characters in African Fiction

The Macallan Brings Diamonds Are Forever Limited Release To Nigeria

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 […]

Naomi Ezenwa

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2 months ago

The Macallan Brings Diamonds Are Forever Limited Release To Nigeria

Power Without Office: The Evolution of Nigeria’s First Lady 

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 […]

Naomi Ezenwa

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2 months ago

Power Without Office: The Evolution of Nigeria’s First Lady 

The Olodo Uprising is Deeper and More Fatal than You Think

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 […]

Culture Custodian Editorial Team

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2 months ago

The Olodo Uprising is Deeper and More Fatal than You Think
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