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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

On “Atonement”, Godwin Finds Grace in the Ruins of Love

Godwin’s debut album Atonement is full, almost orchestral in its composition, its lyricism and the buffet of sound. It feels like a play, a story told in distinct acts –  a theatre of love, conflict, and release. Produced entirely by Berlin trio KitschKrieg, it is a lush and deliberate debut, filled with choral echoes, layered […]

Naomi Ezenwa

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11 months ago

On “Atonement”, Godwin Finds Grace in the Ruins of Love

BSIFF 2025: Zoey Martinson’s “The Fisherman” and the Fragile Balance Between Heritage and Modernity

A dive into the world of The Fisherman reveals comedy at its base. The film carries a social weight and fascinating politics of contrasts, but also possesses a playful, buoyant energy that lightens its thematic gravity. There is a constant clash between primitivism and progressivism, which produces early friction and misunderstanding between the older and […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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11 months ago

BSIFF 2025: Zoey Martinson’s “The Fisherman” and the Fragile Balance Between Heritage and Modernity

Feel The Future: How UDO is Engineering a New Reality for Live Music

The future of live performance isn’t unfolding on a giant festival stage. It’s happening in a dark room somewhere in London, where Nigerian creative technologist and artist Ugochukwu David Ogbuehi, better known as UDO, is quietly reimagining what a concert can be. His latest installation, Fear & Faith II, is bigger than a  show in […]

Naomi Ezenwa

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11 months ago

Feel The Future: How UDO is Engineering a New Reality for Live Music

My Life In Nollywood: Tolu Obanro

Every week, The Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rock stars. You get to learn about their fascinating backgrounds, the behind-the-scenes stories, and more. This episode features film score composer and sound designer, Tolu Obanro. Born in Kwara State, Tolu Obanro spent his formative years between Lokoja, Kogi […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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11 months ago

My Life In Nollywood: Tolu Obanro

When Art Becomes a Conversation 

Against the dark background, her white dress and gele glow. The details accumulate: lipstick stains, white pearls catching light, the fullness of her form, and then her eyes. Those eyes arrest you. They carry an old sadness, the kind that comes from waiting for something that never arrives. This was the image that launched Anthony […]

Shalom Tewobola

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11 months ago

When Art Becomes a Conversation 

Three Key Takeaways From Odumodublvck’s Industry Machine

At the heart of Odumodublvck’s sophomore album, Industry Machine, released in the early hours of Monday, the 6th of October, lies a deceptively simple inquiry: where does one go after checking all the boxes putatively required for a certain level of respect, for ascendancy into “the club,” and still being treated with a degree of […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

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11 months ago

Three Key Takeaways From Odumodublvck’s Industry Machine

Akay Mason’s “Thinline” Dismisses Its own Male Sexual Assault Victim

Watching mainstream Nollywood films and TV series, as Nigerian film critics will attest, is a headache-inducing activity. Film critics watch Nollywood productions with painkillers closely. Ditto the audiences too. This has been the toxic relationship between Nigerian film critics and mainstream Nollywood films. The films reveal filmmakers’ disrespect for cinema and disinterest in the subject […]

Seyi Lasisi

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11 months ago

Akay Mason’s “Thinline” Dismisses Its own Male Sexual Assault Victim

TMXO: Designing the Future of African Sound

By Joseph Dike Abiagom TMXO builds music the way an architect designs a structure -with balance, precision, and purpose. His work doesn’t rely on spectacle or hype; it relies on craft. On Adekunle Gold’s Fuji, that craft takes center stage. Each record on the project feels engineered, not just produced -a deliberate alignment of rhythm, […]

Culture Custodian Editorial Team

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11 months ago

TMXO: Designing the Future of African Sound
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