Toni Kan

Toni Kan is the award winning author of The Carnivorous City, Nights of the Creaking Bed, Songs of Absence and Despair, Ballad of Rage and When a Dream Lingers Too longer as well as 7 biographies. Fondly refered to as the Mayor of Lagos, he is co-founder of thelagosreview.ng

The Story We Have Not Yet Told: Creativity, Culture and Nigeria’s Next Chapter – Ife Adebayo

Now, I would be dishonest if I stood here in 2026 and spoke about the future of the creative economy without naming the force that is already remaking it: artificial intelligence. And I know the fear in this room, because I share the caution -that the machine will flatten our voice, that it will make every story sound the same, that it will take the bread from the animator and the editor and the writer. That fear is not foolish.

Between Suit and Sweat Chukwudi Nwachukwu and the Portraiture of Survival – Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi & Joecollins Ezepue

What holds all four images together, and what ties The Grindster back to everything Nwachukwu has made before, is his refusal to resolve the tension he’s photographing into a verdict. These are not images asking you to pity the hustle, and they do not ask you to admire it uncritically either; they insist you notice it, the way you might notice, for the first time, effort you had walked past a hundred times without seeing. “A photograph,” Nwachukwu has said, “is more than a visual record.”