10 Years of Lil Kesh’s “Y.A.G.I”: A Retrospective Review

Reminisce, Olamide, and Phyno changed Hip-Hop as we know it with the release of Local Rappers in January 2015. The track, lead single to Reminisce’s second studio album Baba Hafusa, was a New year’s exclusive that few expected. A figurative long kiss goodnight for Nigeria’s already declining English rap scene. It fueled debates both online […]

Tosin Adentan is Navigating Her Fear of Virality

Oluwatosin Adentan is a product designer, content creator, and self-proclaimed “noisemaker” who thrives on being boldly present online. Her unfiltered routines—waking to Snapchat/Twitter/Instagram checks, bedtime YouTube scrolling as a coping essential, and quick blocks/mutes for boundary-keeping—capture the internet as a chaotic pleasure hub for community-building (like 2023’s career-shifting discoveries) over disciplined work, with Instagram’s “controlled […]

Chee Keong Cheung’s “The Son of the Soil” and its Storybuilding Issue

Globally, cinema is an illusion and filmmakers work in the business of illusion. Through their artistic production, moving images, sound, scenes, they curate a world that matches one viewers are familiar with. The attentive storyteller, performer and filmmaker learn to progressively infuse quotidian details into their stories, performance and films. The more convincing the details […]

Is Nigerian Politics Ideological?

Today, Nigerian political parties are a vehicle for access, not ideas or beliefs.

My Mum, My North Star: A Daughter’s Mother’s Day Ode

MoRoots Is Redefining The Soundscape of African Music 

The Ugandan musician has been around the scene for over a decade, going from live music to recording artist. Through this evolution, her one prime quality has been her ear for genrebending, putting her vast abilities in the context of Africa’s social and emotive realities.

Remembering Afrobeats’ EDM Origins

Was there a critical mass of EDM production before Afro-House? Was it internally influenced? How and why did it disappear – if at all, it did?

Cassava Republic Brings “The Mercy Step” to International Spotlight

Cassava Republic Press is celebrating major recognitions for The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson. The novel has been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Discover Prize at the British Book Awards, two of the most significant literary honours in the UK. The road to publication was not easy. Senior […]