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NBA Africa And Future Concerns Nigeria Limited Announce Multi-Year Collaboration To Launch NBA REC In Nigeria

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 […]

Anjola Akinmade

3 weeks ago

Behold, Zuko!

Even as we wait on other announced albums, we will listen to Remember off Apollo, reinterpreting the lyrics in recollection of Fireboy’s talent.

John Eriomala

3 weeks ago

Inside Café Riche: The Revolutionary Salon Where Egypt’s History Unfolded Over Turkish Coffee

Whether the soul of a place where Egypt’s revolutions were planned can survive as a hotel lobby remains an open question.

Culture Custodian Editorial Team

3 weeks ago

The Return: Tobe Nwigwe is Coming Home

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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3 weeks ago

Nollywood Needs More Male Characters Like Tunde Kelani’s Ajani

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.

Seyi Lasisi

3 weeks ago

Between Myth and Reality: “A Siege of Owls” Questions Belief Through African Folklore

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 […]

Anjola Akinmade

3 weeks ago

Rolling Stone Africa Partners with Martell, Launches Culture in the Room

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 […]

Anjola Akinmade

3 weeks ago

What It Means to Grow Up with Timaya: From “Dem Mama” to “Kontrol”

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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4 weeks ago

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The Return: Tobe Nwigwe is Coming Home

Nollywood Needs More Male Characters Like Tunde Kelani’s Ajani

Between Myth and Reality: “A Siege of Owls” Questions Belief Through African Folklore

Rolling Stone Africa Partners with Martell, Launches Culture in the Room

What It Means to Grow Up with Timaya: From “Dem Mama” to “Kontrol”

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