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Ijapa O21 September 2025
In our latest First Draft interview, we ask leading African writers, including Laila Lalami and Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, about their writing processes. Here's what the told us.
Ijapa O7 September 2025
Kanyin Ajayi’s English adaptation of French author Marie NDiaye’s Rien d’humain reveals the dark side of charity while also asking audiences to consider how gender violence affects women of various classes.
Oyindamola Depo-Oyedokun24 August 2025
In today’s digital age, history-making lightbulb moments don’t always strike in boardrooms or after soul-searching mountain hikes. Sometimes, they unfold casually on the X timeline.
Moboluwajidide Joseph24 August 2025
From his mother’s community chemist shop in Enugu to a Toronto lab, Nigerian pharmacist Chukwunonso Nwabufo is building a device that could save lives by revealing how your genes respond to drugs, but his real revolution may be redefining what is ‘rare’ in medical research.
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—SEPTEMBER 21, 2025
10 African Writers on How They Actually Wrote Their Books
In our latest First Draft interview, we ask leading African writers, including Laila Lalami and Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, about their writing processes. Here's what the told us.
—SEPTEMBER 7, 2025
The Dark Side of Charity
Kanyin Ajayi’s English adaptation of French author Marie NDiaye’s Rien d’humain reveals the dark side of charity while also asking audiences to consider how gender violence affects women of various classes.
—AUGUST 24, 2025
Saving Nigeria, the Piggyvest Way
In today’s digital age, history-making lightbulb moments don’t always strike in boardrooms or after soul-searching mountain hikes. Sometimes, they unfold casually on the X timeline.
—AUGUST 24, 2025
The Dark Matter of Genetics
From his mother’s community chemist shop in Enugu to a Toronto lab, Nigerian pharmacist Chukwunonso Nwabufo is building a device that could save lives by revealing how your genes respond to drugs, but his real revolution may be redefining what is ‘rare’ in medical research.
—AUGUST 24, 2025
The Crisis of Modern Existence
Kemi Adetiba’s To Kill a Monkey is a compelling demonstration of cinema’s ability to dramatize the damaged condition of modernity.
—AUGUST 17, 2025
How ‘Defending African Values’ Masks a New Colonization
The Christian supremacist groups defending ‘African family values’ are heirs of the forces that destroyed Africa’s traditions of gender diversity, communal kinship and spiritual practices. Their campaigns today are not a defence of culture, family or sovereignty, but a second wave of colonization.
—SEPTEMBER 21, 2025
10 African Writers on How They Actually Wrote Their Books
In our latest First Draft interview, we ask leading African writers, including Laila Lalami and Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, about their writing processes. Here's what the told us.
—SEPTEMBER 7, 2025
The Dark Side of Charity
Kanyin Ajayi’s English adaptation of French author Marie NDiaye’s Rien d’humain reveals the dark side of charity while also asking audiences to consider how gender violence affects women of various classes.
—AUGUST 24, 2025
Saving Nigeria, the Piggyvest Way
In today’s digital age, history-making lightbulb moments don’t always strike in boardrooms or after soul-searching mountain hikes. Sometimes, they unfold casually on the X timeline.
—AUGUST 24, 2025
The Dark Matter of Genetics
From his mother’s community chemist shop in Enugu to a Toronto lab, Nigerian pharmacist Chukwunonso Nwabufo is building a device that could save lives by revealing how your genes respond to drugs, but his real revolution may be redefining what is ‘rare’ in medical research.
—AUGUST 24, 2025
The Crisis of Modern Existence
Kemi Adetiba’s To Kill a Monkey is a compelling demonstration of cinema’s ability to dramatize the damaged condition of modernity.
—AUGUST 17, 2025
How ‘Defending African Values’ Masks a New Colonization
The Christian supremacist groups defending ‘African family values’ are heirs of the forces that destroyed Africa’s traditions of gender diversity, communal kinship and spiritual practices. Their campaigns today are not a defence of culture, family or sovereignty, but a second wave of colonization.
