Culture & Society
In the Company of Women On Writing and Reading Women as Historical Actors
Celebrating women should extend to the kinds of stories we tell about women. These stories should reflect the diversity of their lived experiences, the multiplicity of their work, and the varying ways women express their individual thoughts and perspectives. Read More...
What is Special Hair? A Black Woman’s Complicated Hair Journey
Irrespective of what anyone thinks, I have decided that the hair I was born with—this coarse, springy, dark hair that grows towards the sun—is special, not because of its length, thickness, texture, or any reason other than because it is my hair and I have decided to love it. Read More...
On Laboma Beach, the Party Continues Detty December, the Year of Return and a New Era of Africa-Diaspora Relations
The unique pleasures of the Year of Return and Detty December highlight the evolving relationship between Africa and its global diaspora and the need to sustain this growing bond. Read More...
Creating a New Path How Redefining Ethnicity Beyond Traditional Kinship Can Change Nigeria
As Nigeria evolves, the definition of kin must become less related to language and states of origin but to the shared risk from the effect of the decisions made by the administration in power. Read More...
‘Good Writing Elevates Any Subject’ Daniel Olaoluwa Whyte’s First Draft
Nigerian author and researcher, Daniel Olaoluwa Whyte, believes repatriation of looted artefacts is just the first step. Read More...
Bloodshed and Ballot Boxes ‘Gangs of Lagos’ (2023) Review
Beyond the surface themes of friendship, family ties and betrayal, Gangs of Lagos takes a closer look at thuggery and politically affiliated gang culture in Nigeria, exploring the country’s historically overlooked backstories. Read More...
‘Black is Beautiful’ Kwame Brathwaite (1938-2023)
Kwame Brathwaite, the American photographer whose works visually powered the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ movement of the 60s, has died aged 85. Throughout his career, Brathwaite captured Black icons including Muhammad Ali, Aretha Franklin, The Jackson Five, and Nina Simone. Ultimately, his works sought to uplift the essence of being Black. Read More...
Golden Lion Demas Nwoko Will Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale
Demas Nwoko’s work has been described as ’sustainable, resource-mindful, and (as) culturally authentic forms of expression now sweeping across the African continent’. Read More...
‘I Am Currently Writing Two Books’ Abel Gaiya’s First Draft
Nigerian author and development researcher, Abel Gaiya, believes West Africa is going in circles. Read More...
This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Afro-existentialist Experiment
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is the perfect afro-existentialist film, not because of the existential interstice implied in its title, but because of how it paints mystical and metaphysical pictures about the different types of death. Read More...
