November 2026 - The Lagos Review

A Man Is Not A Pillow: A Review Of ‘Husband Is Useless’ – Akumbu Uche

Sade’s plight exposes the societal double standards in mandating that women need a husband’s protection and provision while also expecting women to compensate for their husband’s inability to protect and provide. Through Sade, Chukwuma also celebrates how women, despite being pressured into conformity, maintain resilience and still find avenues to exercise agency.

I love criticism so long as its well written and intelligent – Zadie Smith tells Dua Lipa – Toni Kan

A highpoint was the conversation around creatives and their attitude towards reviews and criticisms of their work. While Dua Lipa said “learning to live with reviews” whether bad or good was “one of the hardest things for her to learn to deal with”, Zadie Smith took a more open approach describing criticism as “absolutely essential because it helps develop taste.”

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The Story of the Flying Antelopes: How a Two-Goal Lead Carried Enugu’s Football Story to Algiers

For a club inseparable from Enugu’s football identity, the result also sharpens an old question: what travels when a team plays away from the city associated with its history? The home leg took place at the MKO Abiola Sports Complex in Abeokuta. Enugu remained central to the narrative, even when the match-day crowd and physical surroundings were somewhere else.

Biography: Achraf Hakimi Is More Than the Face of a Champions League Night

Born in Madrid to Moroccan parents, Hakimi developed at Real Madrid, became a senior international for Morocco and built club careers in Germany, Italy and France. His importance to Morocco became especially visible at the 2022 World Cup, when the national team reached the semi-finals, the first African side to do so. PSG’s player profile also records his 100th international appearance during the 2026 World Cup.

Playing “Lagos Life” and Making It Big in a Virtual City – Yusuf Zay

I must commend the developer Shalom who clearly took the saying “the devil is in the details” to heart. From Quilox, Freedom Park and iFitness to Owambes, Third Mainland Bridge traffic and the occasional robbery by area boys, Lagos is not just a backdrop but a fully immersive world that is part of the joke, charm and appeal of the game. Abuja and Port Harcourt are represented too, giving Nigerians a digital playground that feels like home.

The City That Was Waiting – Mariam Mimi Abdullahi

Somewhere between those readings, shared meals and quiet conversations, the people I had met at the airport stopped feeling like strangers. The city outside the workshop continued moving in its usual Lagos way, but inside that room, I had found a slower kind of movement—the movement of ideas between people.

Black Tax and the Grief of Living – Yasir

The grief of living is not the grief of losing. It is the grief of trying, of being in the middle of something hard with no clear end date, no guarantee, no moment where someone officially tells you it is okay to feel how you feel. It is the grief of a salary already spent. Of a father’s diagnosis that rearranged everything and the relief that he is fine now, which somehow does not cancel the weight of what it took to get there.

Month: November 2026

A Man Is Not A Pillow: A Review Of ‘Husband Is Useless’ – Akumbu Uche

I love criticism so long as its well written and intelligent – Zadie Smith tells Dua Lipa – Toni Kan