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CREATIVE CONVERSATION LIVE WITH BANKY W; A Fast Company Live Podcast Session... Read More
African cinema is diverse. African cinema crosses genres, social issues, economic development... Read More
Filmmaking has always been on his heart and when he moved to... Read More
International conference and music destination Midem announced that Afrobeat legend, Femi Kuti,... Read More
Multi-talented business industrialist, author and co-pastor of Word of life Bible church,... Read More
Joeboy, Wurld, Others Perform As MTV Base Celebrates Base Day In Abuja... Read More
We’ve had Nigerian content on Netflix for a while now (starting with... Read More
Get ready for more electrifying and soul-moving songs from Nosa because he... Read More
ARE WE MAKING THE RIGHT KIND OF MUSIC? Wednesday is Music day.... Read More
As part of celebrations around the continent to mark the 15th year... Read More
Two weeks ago Chris Kirkley’s label Sahel Sounds, which has been documenting... Read More
Four energetic evenings of live music performances on three stages in the... Read More
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Movie Reviews
Many of us, even those who do not indulge in the precarious pastime of watching Nigerian movies, recently heard about a movie called Sugar Rush mostly because it was mysteriously pulled from cinemas only a week or so after its... Read More
Oscar winner, Antoine Fuqua, began his film career making music videos, so did Spike Jonze. Here in Nigeria, Ema Edosio has plied the same trajectory parlaying an early career making music videos alongside Clarence Peters into a film making career with her... Read More
Tyler Perry’s latest feature film on Neftlix, “A Fall from Grace”, follows one of his obsessions—the suffering black woman. His other obsession is black suffering at large, for which he has devised a perfect formula, which has helped him churn... Read More
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Music Reviews
Rapper and Head Honcho at YBNL records, Olamide Baddo, failed to deliver his usual last quarter album in 2019. It will be the first time in nine years, that a body of work bearing the insignia of the accomplished rapper... Read More
Joy Odiete Eseoghene is the name that has dropped by the wayside. Those who remember West African Idols, the 2007 edition, will remember the finalists: Timi Dakolo, the eventual winner; Omawumi Megbele, first runnerup and J’odie, the second runnerup. Well,... Read More
I Love Girls with Trobul. Declarative and acknowledging, perhaps even romcom cheeky—this is the title of the first EP collaboration between blue-haired American-bred and Lagos-born crooner WurlD and Sarz, Benin-born music producer with a remarkable shelf-life and bragging rights. The... Read More
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Book Reviews
Fleeing violence and political crises in parts of the Middle East as well as poverty and economic challenges in Africa, millions of people have been risking the perilous journey of crossing the Mediterranean sea into Europe. Many die trying. In... Read More
Apotheosis of Ironsi Ironsi – The Army, Power And Politics by Chuks Iloegbunam; Eminent Biographies (EB), Awka, Nigeria; 2019; 298pp There is an almost general acknowledgment that The Class of 1966, that is, the northern revenge coup plotters that killed... Read More
Welcome to Leye Adenle’s Lagos where, a few pages into the plot, the prologue in fact, a private jet, with the owner on board, crashes into a house. Simultaneously, a man is about to be lynched by touts and our... Read More
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Five Jordan, a new arts for social development collective, was formally launched on the 31st of January 2020 at an event... Read More
