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“Forget the Director, This is Emmy’s Cut!”: Marion Desmaret on Video Jokering and Cinema as a Shared Conversation

In Uganda, Video Jokering (often referred to as VJing) is a unique and culturally significant form of film commentary and translation. A Video Joker (VJ) is a narrator and guide whose content style is to run commentary over a movie, usually a foreign blockbuster, to translate the dialogue into local languages (primarily Luganda) and add comedic or social commentary.

Seyi Lasisi

8 months ago

The Great Nigerian Rap Beef and Other Tragedies

There is a compounding comedy of errors affecting Naija rap, the oldest pillar of what is today known as Afrobeats. As with the great clown Pagliacci, none of the jokes are funny.

John Eriomala

8 months ago

Anita Eboigbe is Using The Internet To Find Gist

Anita Eboigbe, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Big Cabal Media (home to TechCabal, Zikoko, and Citizen), has lived a rich life across the Nigerian media space. From pioneering box office data at News Agency of Nigeria, helping to build the conflict-reporting powerhouse HumAngle, and now scaling operations at Africa’s top digital media firms. Her unique […]

Oluwamayowa Idowu

8 months ago

Buying the Dream: Celebrity, Aspiration, and the Monetisation of Proximity

Across these examples — the bowling membership, the pastel advent calendar, the billion-naira mansion — a consistent pattern emerges. Nigeria’s dubious luxury market is not marginal or accidental. It is thriving because it taps into a powerful social undercurrent: the desire to feel close to visible wealth.

Naomi Ezenwa

8 months ago

“No More Way for Poor People”: A Street Slang With Dose of Reality

Just like Mavo “No more way for poor people,” slangs such as “Bombing and Azaman” originate from the same socio-economic conditions and widespread ills in the society. These street slangs are created within a context of systemic gaps and frustrations, and over time, they shape the attitudes and lifestyles of the people who consume them.

Culture Custodian Editorial Team

8 months ago

How Micro-Permissions Sustain Rape Culture in Nigerian Pop Culture

If rape culture circulates in everyday speech, it is hardly surprising that it also surfaces across the art forms that shape pop culture. Literature, film, and music do not merely reflect reality. They rehearse it, stylise it, and sometimes sanitise it although this is not the purpose of art.

Culture Custodian Editorial Team

8 months ago

Have Money or You Go Suffer: Celebrity, Allegiance and Wealth as a Shield

Siraheem and Teni’s new track, Trust Fund, does not attempt subtlety. From its opening seconds, it declares its thesis. The intro pulls from Davido’s viral meme — “omo in this life have money o, or you go suffer” — and that line sets the tone for the rest of the three-minute record. Across the track, […]

Naomi Ezenwa

8 months ago

Osahon Akpata and the Architecture of African Film Capital

Financial institutions often require tangible collateral, leaving intellectual property, already vulnerable to piracy, undervalued as an asset. Compounding this challenge is a knowledge gap.

Adedamola Adedayo

8 months ago

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“Forget the Director, This is Emmy’s Cut!”: Marion Desmaret on Video Jokering and Cinema as a Shared Conversation

The Great Nigerian Rap Beef and Other Tragedies

Anita Eboigbe is Using The Internet To Find Gist

Buying the Dream: Celebrity, Aspiration, and the Monetisation of Proximity

“No More Way for Poor People”: A Street Slang With Dose of Reality

How Micro-Permissions Sustain Rape Culture in Nigerian Pop Culture

Have Money or You Go Suffer: Celebrity, Allegiance and Wealth as a Shield

Osahon Akpata and the Architecture of African Film Capital

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