Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
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.
4 weeks ago
Despite his embattled situation, writing Wizkid off is a bit premature, he still has a huge fanbase and the talent to command rave reviews from critics.
1 month ago
To open 5ive, the poet Alhanislam recites a spoken-word commentary on the album and the man behind it. It feels a little pretentious, rooted in the same idea that drives artists to label every new project their deepest and most personal work yet. Yet some of it does have grounding in real-life events. Alhanislam hails […]
2 months ago
If you’ve been even remotely active online, the words Achalugo and Odogwu have likely crossed your path, either directly or embedded in brands like Piggyvest’s marketing materials. Perhaps you’ve also encountered the lavish praise hailing Love in Every Word as one of 2025’s cinematic masterpieces, or declarations that Omoni Oboli has revolutionized NollyTube. If we […]
2 months ago
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been a prolific name for decades due to her impact in the literary and feminist landscape. Her rise began as a result of the success of her critically acclaimed book Purple Hibiscus which amassed multiple awards including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2005 for Best First Book (Africa) and that year’s […]
2 years ago
Did you know that there are approximately 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide? Can you imagine all the different ways in which we all use the internet? Obasanjo’s Internet is our interview series where we speak to some of our internet favourites on how they relate to the internet and what it means to them […]
2 years ago
In this part of the world, university education is pictured as a stepping stone to adulthood, with many Nigerian students embracing this form of higher education before delving into their respective careers. It is usually a season of exhilaration for newly admitted university students, known as freshmen, as they try to settle down and get […]
2 years ago
Sitting in a studio with a sixty-four-year-old Koffi Olomidé in 2021, a nineteen-year-old Sabrina was nervous to boot. In that studio booth, she was not only a professional musician, but also a fan girl meeting her hero for the first time. Growing up in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, she had idolized the Congolese soukous musician, whose […]
2 years ago
Yorubas own Afrobeats. That claim, or a variation of it, has often surfaced on social media, and while it is incorrect and possibly flecked with ethnic bias, it points to the dominance of artists from Nigeria’s south-western regions in the country’s contemporary popular music. This dominance is largely possible because the market square of Nigerian […]
2 years ago
While it is the wish of every filmmaker to tell a story, how they go about achieving this differs. Filmmaking in Nigeria, dubbed Nollywood, has undergone many unspoken reforms, with traditional theatricians, pioneering filmmakers, mass market enthusiasts and New Nollywood pacesetters all embracing elements and techniques that are not only in sync with their times […]
2 years ago
Traditional stories of love and romance usually end on positive notes with the embattled pair fulfilling the “and they lived happily ever after” prophecy. Such stories are often trapped between realism and idealism: the storyteller flaunts turbulent moments of the relationship to prove that romance is all but perfectionist fantasy; but then the couple, a […]
2 years ago
Nothing defines one’s first plunge into adulthood as well as the first few years of their career. “Fast-paced, accelerated work environment” is often how employers describe the Nigerian work culture, but the reality is even more daunting. In the first couple of years, most people believe the idea of work-life balance to be nothing but […]
2 years ago
