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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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4 days ago

“Starrgirl”: Ayra Starr Trades Becoming for Being

Jola Ayeye: The Podcaster Shaping Nigeria’s Cultural Landscape 

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?” […]

Shalom Tewobola

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1 year ago

Jola Ayeye: The Podcaster Shaping Nigeria’s Cultural Landscape 

“BODMAS” Review—A Quick Note on Self-Doubt & Moral Support 

As an indie filmmaker, the short film is your sure-fire way of testing the waters, a means to shoot your shot,  but there’s an accompanying temptation: the urge to over-impress, to sound deep in theme and form, to prove beyond reasonable doubt with any symbol that comes within your grasp, all within “unreasonable” timing. Abiodun […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 year ago

“BODMAS” Review—A Quick Note on Self-Doubt & Moral Support 

“The Tongue Turns To The Aching Tooth”—Revisiting The Satirists of Idi Amin-Ruled Uganda

A middle-aged man, in a simple-branded T-shirt and trousers, is on a commercial motorbike. Filmed in slow-mo, the motorbike glides past a building whose wall holds remotely colourful images of some Ugandan figures, perhaps persons of considerable historical significance, and a conspicuous BANK OF UGANDA inscription. A voiceover accompanies the opening scene of The Tongue […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 year ago

“The Tongue Turns To The Aching Tooth”—Revisiting The Satirists of Idi Amin-Ruled Uganda

Magixx’s Debut Album Transports Us To a Poignant Dreamscape

The title of Magixx’s debut album—I Dream in Color—evokes cinematic visions; the vague feeling of being caught in a dream overlaid with vivid bursts of color. The spectral undertones inherent in the album’s title pervades the 13 tracks that make up the album. I Dream In Color, exists in a mellow dreamscape conjured from the […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

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1 year ago

Magixx’s Debut Album Transports Us To a Poignant Dreamscape

The Pandemic That Reshaped Nigerian Music

In 2020, as the pandemic brought the world to a standstill, forcing Nigerians into movement restrictions and lockdowns, it was also incubating music talent and creativity that would go on to leave a legacy five years after. In Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, clubs were shut, concerts were getting cancelled, even smaller festivities like weddings and […]

Patrick Ezema

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1 year ago

The Pandemic That Reshaped Nigerian Music
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