Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
“Which line, let them bring it out, has had more impact than that like on Cast,” Odumodublvck asks in a radio interview with Beat 99.9FM’s Osi Suave. “Which Hip Hop song,” he continues, “has had more cultural impact, in the last 20 years? Brother in the history of Nigerian Hip Hop, no song has had […]
2 weeks ago
A significant portion of Wizkid’s imminent HBO documentary Wizkid: Long Live Lagos is devoted to excavating the suffocating grief that arrived in the wake of his mother’s passing. As the documentary reveals, on the day of his historic show at the 60,000-capacity Tottenham Stadium, his mother, Morayo Balogun, was undergoing an emergency surgery. In clips […]
3 weeks ago
My Father’s Shadow is a personal, semi-autobiographical exploration of the Davies brothers. It’s charged as an attempt to make sense of the absence that shaped their formative years.
2 months ago
Despite his embattled situation, writing Wizkid off is a bit premature, he still has a huge fanbase and the talent to command rave reviews from critics.
2 months ago
Across the globe, governments facing economic turmoil are turning to a familiar scapegoat: immigrants. From the UK to the USA, and across African nations, leaders are quick to deploy anti-immigration rhetoric and policies as a tool to deflect blame, stoke nationalism, and maintain public support – often at the expense of truth, equity, and basic […]
1 week ago
Asherkine’s latest video opens with him in Enugu State, specifically at the University of Nigeria. He’s wearing a white tee, baggy jorts, and sneakers. As the video shows, not too long after arriving on the campus, he spots a damsel: Becky, a 300-level mass communications student, seated with her friends, taking cover under a sprawling […]
1 week ago
With love on the backburner and manhunting at the centre, the template for Nigerian romantic relationships doesn’t exactly place men and women on equal footing and it is against this backdrop that transactional relationships have been able to exist in the first place.
1 week ago
The Masires have a complicated past and complex relationship that often haunts them.
2 weeks ago
Isimi Lagos, Nigeria’s pioneering Wellness & Polo Country Estate, has been officially recognized as one of the Top 3 real estate locations to buy land in Lagos, according to a recent industry roundup highlighting high-growth and future-ready developments across the state. The ranking underscores Isimi Lagos’ rising value as a transformative eco-community, blending nature, innovation, […]
2 weeks ago
Being a successful filmmaker requires having the ability to play around unpopular ideas or review popular ones through fresh lenses. In doing so, the filmmaker has an unwritten obligation to tell the truth of a people’s culture and beliefs, more often staying faithful to the social context. It is not out of place for a […]
2 weeks ago
If the big question for the Nigerian music industry last year was: “Where are the breakout stars who will suffuse the scene with new life?”; the question that looms over the scene today, with increasing intensity every passing minute, is: what is the latest frontier, the bleeding edge of innovation, regarding music marketing in the […]
2 weeks ago
Ayra Starr has ditched her braids and wigs for a pixie cut, Asake said goodbye to the dreads and picked up a skateboard, and Rema seems to have taken up smoking? From braids to buzz cuts, dreads to designer grills, Nigeria’s pop stars aren’t just evolving – they’re shapeshifting. In an age where deleting your […]
2 weeks ago
