Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service has announced that it would be cutting 1,500 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, in a move aimed at reducing costs and streamlining operations. “This was a difficult decision,...
In the posthumously released collection Songs on Endless Repeat by the late...
Jamie Foxx emerged from months of seclusion after facing a mysterious medical...
Rema has achieved unprecedented success on Spotify, claiming the title of the...
In a spectacular farewell performance at Madison Square Garden, Kiss bid adieu...
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Asake gets Grammy nomination for “Amapiano”
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Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service has announced that it would...
In the posthumously released collection Songs on Endless Repeat by the late...
Jamie Foxx emerged from months of seclusion after facing a mysterious medical...
Rema has achieved unprecedented success on Spotify, claiming the title of the...
In a spectacular farewell performance at Madison Square Garden, Kiss bid adieu...
The post-Thanksgiving, early December box office saw Beyoncé’s concert film, Renaissance: A...
Okoli Onyeka Okwudili, widely known as 6UFF (pronounced Buff), has unveiled his...
The 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize witnessed an unprecedented surge in participation,...
The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) has announced the appointment of 12...
A Little Light Nthikeng Mohlele Fiction – Short Stories March 1,...
It is the shorthand of prose fiction, the short story form. Its...
African Women Acting (AWA), a non-profit organisation hailing from Ontario, Canada, is...
The Black Book is another example of the fact that Netflix viewers are not the best judges of filmic brilliance.
They may have canonized the film as one of the best from Nigeria, a fact that will make it easier for the producers to raise funding for their next film, but Editi Effiong must resist the temptation to get high on the fumes of mass adulation.
Fictional narratives compel us to suspend disbelief. This willing suspension of disbelief is required as you settle down to watch Femi Adebayo’s delightful and bloody epic, Jagun Jagun especially if you are someone with a handle on Yoruba history and...
As “hot girl walks” implausibly keep trending on TikTok for yet another summer season, here comes Janelle Monáe to burn it all down. “Hot girl walks,” you see, involve going outside for a moderately paced stroll, often while wearing a...
In our review of Asake's Work of Art, Toni Kan described the song as "one of the best boast tracks to ever come out of Nigeria"
Work of Art presents Asake the lyricist, wordsmith and braggart. We are also introduced to the songwriter (who often gets entangled in his own wordplay as he yokes words together as if by violence in his quest for end rhymes)
Every song on What Is Your Breaking Point? which was released on June 9, spreads its own bit of Nigerian stardust over the listener. As the unprecedented #EndSARS protests against police violence and criminality that began alongside Covid-19 showed, Nigerians...
It is the shorthand of prose fiction, the short story form. Its charm lies in its brevity to compress what a full length novel could do in very few words. Mastery of the short fiction or short story is an...
Book: Majek Fashek Before And After The Rain (A Memoir of A Rastafarian’s Reign and Ruin) Author: Azuka Jebose Molokwu Publisher: Purple Scroll A book, any one at all, about the late Nigerian musician Majekodunmi Fasheke, better known as Majek...
Book title: On a Darkling Plain: An Account of the Nigerian Civil War Author: Ken Saro-Wiwa Publisher: Saros International Publishers Number of pages: 268 Year of publication: 1989 Category: Memoir * “The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling...
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Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service has announced that it would be cutting 1,500 jobs, or 17% of its...
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Janet Chinenye Eze, a renowned author, entrepreneur and philanthropist, has graced the literary world with two captivating works: Nnenna, a...
After a lavish puff of perfume at home, I made it for the African literary festival, Oxford; the brainchild of...
