What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
4 weeks ago
What shall it profit a people to lack shame? What does it really profit a nation of over 180 million people to consistently platform and promote individuals with an addiction to humiliation? There comes a time when one must sit back, rest their hands on their head, exhale, and declare that it all doesn’t make […]
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My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
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Aanu Adeoye is a journalist at a major newspaper and author working on his debut nonfiction book about Africa’s emerging geopolitics. Here, he takes us through his use of the internet as both a tool for work and a distraction to be avoided. Who are you? What do you do? Who am I? What a […]
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Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions without being forced or unduly pressured by others.
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Artificial intelligence, commonly known as AI, has advanced significantly compared to 2023, and it will shape part of the 2027 election, and the events leading up to it.
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On June 1, the BBC released Surviving Biafra: Voices from the Nigerian Civil War, a 75-minute Africa Eye documentary directed by Grammy-winning filmmaker Meji Alabi. Built around the experiences of Alabi’s grandfather, Godwin Alabi-Isama, a former Nigerian army commander who fought on the federal side during the war, the documentary arrives with lofty ambitions. According […]
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In a recent video, the Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps answered a seemingly straightforward question: “Can you drive with an international driver’s licence in Nigeria?” His answer was equally straightforward. “The answer is simply, no.” To support his position, he cited Section 82 of the National Road Traffic Regulations, which states plainly that: […]
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Nigeria is failing its children. Governance has been reduced to a series of political performances staged for the benefit of those in power, while children, who are the most vulnerable members of society, who cannot vote, protest, or negotiate their own safety bear the consequences most severely. They are growing up in a country that is stripping away structures meant to protect, educate, nourish, and prepare them for the future.
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With minimum wage sitting at just 70,000 Naira a month, car ownership, electric or not, remains financially out of reach for most young Nigerians facing challenging economic conditions. The numbers simply do not add up for a generation already navigating one of Africa’s most punishing economic climates.
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We hold this truth to be self-evident: That more often than should be, Nigerian athletes, and by extension, African sports persons, are subjected to undeserved scrutiny. This ultimately translates into micro and macro aggressions and outright witch hunts with no basis in factual accuracy. It’s not always immediately obvious. But these detractors bask in the […]
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But for a community like Rap Joint Lagos, NAS’ premonition about the death of Hip-Hop might have come true, leaving us with the “wreckage” of DJs. Founded by Akinwale Irokosu, Rap Joint Lagos began as an online community sometime in 2020 and since then, has become a cultural sanctuary for lovers of Hip-Hop. It is […]
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Sade Onabowale has a lot of opinions. Following her on Instagram is characterized by her expression of her thoughts on the topic du jour in long form. That desire to shape discourse has also now resulted in its own media universe of sorts: a Substack newsletter, a podcast, and a recurring event series. This is […]
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