Culture & Society
The Ingenuity of Ayra Starr’s Afropop
On The Year I Turned 21, Ayra Starr proves to be a limitless star—undefined and unconstrained by musical boundaries or rules. Read More...
‘My Early Reading Featured a Lot of Religious Texts’ Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s First Draft
Nigerian writer, Chukwuebuka Ibeh, says the reception in Nigeria for his debut novel, Blessings, has been delightfully surprising: ‘I was prepared for much more vitriol, but that hasn’t been the case. I’ve also been amused by the split responses to events in the book, with some people wanting much less of the same thing that others seem to want much more of.’ Read More...
Fiction as National Memory in the Age of Mass Protests
Considering the 2024 Kenyan Gen Z protest, and the rising discontent among African youths, can literature play the role of lens in times of moral crisis, that too for a population that doesn’t read? Read More...
The Exuberance of Rema
What exactly is Rema’s latest album, HEIS? Is it noise, music, rage, rave? Afro rage? Afro metal? Read More...
A Moving Reflection on Love, Loss and Childhood
In his debut novel, Loss is an Aftertaste of Memories, Michael Chièdoziém Chúkwúderà offers a deeply moving portrait of a narrator ahead of his time, contemplating childhood through the lens of memory. Read More...
Death and the King’s Horseman at the Stratford Festival
The successes and challenges behind the production of one of Nigeria’s most iconic theatre works on a Western stage. Read More...
The Coming-of-Age Novel as a Portrait of Nigeria
The bildungsroman is the novel of Nigeria. No other kind of novel captures completely what it means to be Nigerian in the volatile, high-velocity, interconnected world of the twenty-first century. Read More...
7 Books That Will Help You Understand the African Immigrant Experience in the UK
In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that will help you understand the plight of African immigrant in the UK. From fiction to photography, whether works of historical research or social commentary, the books on this list span genres and eras to paint a vivid picture of the African immigrant experience in the UK. Read More...
‘Writing Is a Process of Thinking and Thinking Is Living’ Chimezie Chika’s First Draft
Nigerian writer, Chimezie Chika, believes that fidelity to the quality of work is what makes an artist or artwork timeless: ‘I think art has a lot to do with quality—and I mean quality as substance: the quality of colour, the quality of light, the quality of strokes, the quality of mood, the quality of thought, and the quality of ideas. All great art possesses these qualities.’ Read More...
The Dilemma of the Nigerian Food Content Creator
Food content creation in Nigeria is a booming niche that blends creativity, the cultural diversity in the country, and a global food culture. The scene is however marred by ethnic prejudices and online bullying. Read More...
