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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

Genoveva Umeh Is Ready To Flaunt Her Nigerianness

Independence was the highlight of Genoveva Umeh’s formative years in Nigeria. The British-Nigerian actress, a recipient of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2024 Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) for her performance in BB Sasore’s Breath of Life, had an upbringing that made her responsible for herself early in life. Her parents, natives […]

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2 years ago

Genoveva Umeh Is Ready To Flaunt Her Nigerianness

Obasanjo’s Internet – Dodo Babs

Did you know that there are approximately 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide? Can you imagine all the different ways in which we all use the internet? Obasanjo’s Internet is our interview series where we speak to some of our Internet favorites on how they relate to the Internet and what it means to them […]

Damilola Oyeleke

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2 years ago

Obasanjo’s Internet – Dodo Babs

“We survive together”: The Communal Kitchens Fighting Famine In Khartoum

By Rawh Nasir Communal kitchens assist hundreds of thousands in Sudan’s embattled capital, Khartoum. They provide regular meals and social and emotional support amid a deepening famine that international aid groups are failing to tackle. Run by neighborhood-based mutual aid groups called emergency response rooms, the kitchens are struggling with crippling funding gaps, security threats, […]

Culture Custodian Editorial Team

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2 years ago

“We survive together”: The Communal Kitchens Fighting Famine In Khartoum

Baṣorun Gaa: Through The Lenses of Adebayo Faleti and Bolanle Austen-Peters

Historians, such as the prominent Yoruba history connoisseur Samuel Johnson, have attempted to document the rise and fall of the Oyo Empire, including the lives of noblemen like Baṣorun Gaa (also “Gaha”) and Aare Afonja whose tyrannical reigns in different eras had significant impacts on the military, economic and political development of the nation and […]

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2 years ago

Baṣorun Gaa: Through The Lenses of Adebayo Faleti and Bolanle Austen-Peters

Nigeria’s Alternative Scene is in Another Golden Age

Nigeria’s alternative scene’s last gold rush occurred between 2018 and 2019. It embodied a laissez-faire essence that feels difficult to summon now. Alternative artists of the time allowed themselves the license to create without restrictions. From free-floating experiments with contemporary Western sounds to home-facing reconstructions of forgotten Nigerian sounds, nothing was spared in their pursuit […]

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2 years ago

Nigeria’s Alternative Scene is in Another Golden Age
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