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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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3 weeks ago

“Starrgirl”: Ayra Starr Trades Becoming for Being

AFRIFF 2025: Joshua Neubert and Victor Muhagachi’s “Majini” Shoulders The Weight of Masculinity and Tradition

Majini, directed by German filmmaker Joshua Neubert and Tanzanian filmmaker Victor Muhagachi, tells the story of Fari, an aquaphobic boy whose ailing father sends him to sea with his older brother, Danford. As the boy confronts his fears and doubts, he is forced to embrace the reality of his unofficial initiation into adulthood and emerging […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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10 months ago

AFRIFF 2025: Joshua Neubert and Victor Muhagachi’s “Majini” Shoulders The Weight of Masculinity and Tradition

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Chukwu Martin’s “Tell It No More” Resists The Imbalance In Traditional Marital Expectations 

Tell It No More, written by Temilolu Fosudo and directed by Chukwu Martin, wastes no time in declaring its intentions. From the opening scene, Darasimi (Martha Ehinome), on her wedding day, succumbs to her mother’s stream of advice on how to be a “proper” wife. The older Yoruba woman insists that patience and submission are […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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10 months ago

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Chukwu Martin’s “Tell It No More” Resists The Imbalance In Traditional Marital Expectations 

The Cost of Nigeria’s $4.5 Billion Fashion Industry

For three weeks now, a 14-minute documentary has been quietly circulating, carrying voices that have been systematically silenced. Model Citizen—the title itself a deliberate double entendre—presents what appears to be a celebration of exemplary professionals. Look closer, and you’ll find something more urgent: a damning exposé of an industry built on the bodies of those […]

Shalom Tewobola

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10 months ago

The Cost of Nigeria’s $4.5 Billion Fashion Industry

How “ACL” Rescued Blaqbonez’s Career

On the night of November, 6, 2025, Blaqbonez returned to his alma mater, the Obafemi Awolowo University, taking the stage of the university’s 8000-seater Amphitheater. He had left the school as an obscure battle rapper, whose proclivity for whimsy and gaunt affect seemed at odds with his chosen career path. Now he was returning arguably […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

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10 months ago

How “ACL” Rescued Blaqbonez’s Career
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