Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
Everyone has a podcast—or is about to launch one. From living rooms to YouTube studios, microphones are plugged in, ring lights are on, and conversations are being recorded at a dizzying pace. Podcasts flit from hot topic to hot topic, with a steady stream of camera ready guests lending instantly viral ‘insight’ to the increasingly […]
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“Which line, let them bring it out, has had more impact than that like on Cast,” Odumodublvck asks in a radio interview with Beat 99.9FM’s Osi Suave. “Which Hip Hop song,” he continues, “has had more cultural impact, in the last 20 years? Brother in the history of Nigerian Hip Hop, no song has had […]
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A significant portion of Wizkid’s imminent HBO documentary Wizkid: Long Live Lagos is devoted to excavating the suffocating grief that arrived in the wake of his mother’s passing. As the documentary reveals, on the day of his historic show at the 60,000-capacity Tottenham Stadium, his mother, Morayo Balogun, was undergoing an emergency surgery. In clips […]
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My Father’s Shadow is a personal, semi-autobiographical exploration of the Davies brothers. It’s charged as an attempt to make sense of the absence that shaped their formative years.
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Aníkúlápó: Rise of the Spectre, a Netflix epic series sequel to the 2022 film Aníkúlápó, is set in the 17th century and follows the adventure of the protagonist, Saro (Kunle Remi), particularly his return to life on another mission and his sojourn in a new community. The six-part series, produced and directed by Kunle Afolayan, […]
1 year ago
She steals from the gods the power of resurrection, and then raises her beloved from the dead. Then she bequeaths the loot to him, with which he builds a reputation as a resurrector. But when he cheats on her, she ups and leaves, taking along his talisman, a last-gasp act of revenge which precipitates both […]
1 year ago
Asake, who is famed for his taciturn nature as much as his artistic genius, has taken to his social media platforms to make some controversial posts in a rare burst of extroversion. On Twitter, he put out a series of odd tweets, but while it was a first for the star, whose Twitter account ordinarily […]
1 year ago
In an era where the pursuit of gender inclusivity has become widespread, however performative, Nigerian brands are not exempt from the global movement. With the advent of each International Women’s Day, companies across the country go out of their way to create something to portray them as inclusive, empathetic, or supportive of women’s empowerment. Despite […]
1 year ago
“Any weapon against me no fit prosper / Back to sender / make my money pass Bullion Van,” Seyi Vibez sings in Buillion Van (2022), his baritone full of girth and confidence with his prayer-inspired music lyrics. Similarly, Asake sings with the same level of pizzaz in Nzaza (2022), “See am for my dream as I […]
1 year ago
by Shalom Tewobola and Patrick Ezema “Half the time, they said my music was horrible. I should sing what people understood. But in my heart, I knew where I wanted to go,” Asa says in an episode of Flow with Korty. From an early age, Asa knew where she wanted to go with her […]
1 year ago
In the few instances where queer people were the subject of Nigerian films in the ‘90s and early 2000s, they were invariably depicted unflatteringly. Lancelot Imasuen’s Emotional Crack (2003), Amaka Igwe’s Rattle Snake (1995) and even Moses Ebere’s Men in Love (2010), for example, portrayed homosexuals as satanically possessed. In some other films from that […]
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2023 was a year that inarguably delivered on the music front; stars like Rema and Asake returned in the form they closed 2022 in, while new artists like Odumodublvck and Shallipopi made their own breakthroughs. As icing on the cake, each member of the big 3, Nigeria’s trio of its putative biggest artists, new projects […]
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