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.
2 months ago
Nollywood actor Taiwo “Ogogo” Hassan, who has died aged 66 of an unnamed cancer, inspired Nigerian film audiences and industry practitioners with his commanding performances and recorded goodwill. The actor who has stayed away from mainstream attention and conversation was the face of recent conversation after one of his daughters posted a video detailing the […]
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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 […]
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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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Nigeria’s basketball ecosystem is set to expand with the arrival of NBA REC, the NBA’s recreational basketball platform for players aged 18 and above, following a new multi-year collaboration between NBA Africa and Future Concerns Nigeria Limited, a leading Nigerian health, safety, environmental and engineering services company. The partnership brings the first NBA REC programme […]
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Even as we wait on other announced albums, we will listen to Remember off Apollo, reinterpreting the lyrics in recollection of Fireboy’s talent.
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Whether the soul of a place where Egypt’s revolutions were planned can survive as a hotel lobby remains an open question.
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Five years ago, Tobe Nwigwe asserted the supremacy of Nigerian jollof. “Factually speaking, Nigeria’s jollof is just way better than Ghana’s,” he told Ebony in a cover interview, a statement that signals his bona fides as a second-generation immigrant with genuine reverence for his ancestral and [partly] cultural roots. That pride in being Nigerian has […]
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Conversely, if Nollywood, as one of the country’s culture shapers, is committed to corrective cinema and global storytelling, it needs to aspire beyond its single framing of men as connoisseurs of violence, provider, and rigid.
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For centuries, African folklore has served purposes beyond entertainment. Myths, oral traditions, and spiritual beliefs have long been used to explain the unknown, preserve cultural memory, and communicate moral truths across generations. Contemporary African storytellers continue to draw from this tradition, but many have moved beyond simply retelling folklore. Instead, they use it as a […]
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If you weren’t there, chances are you heard about it. Rolling Stone Africa’s inaugural Culture in the Room arrived in Lagos on June 20 as the kind of event the city has always needed: intimate, intentional, and filled with the people actively shaping what Nigerian and West African culture looks and feels like today. The […]
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by Dennis Ade-Peters It takes a certain level of steely resolve to pursue a path in music. Especially when it’s in Nigerian music, at a time when the barrier to entry was higher than it is in our current post-digital reality. Timaya had his conviction set from the beginning, it was music or nothing. Music […]
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