Interviews/Profiles

The Last Oriki for Ògògó, Ọmọ Ku Lodo – Michael Kolawole

Hassan had a vast filmography where he played diverse characters to the delight of the audience. Besides his roles in old movies like Owo Blow, Agbelebu, and Ọmọ Ghetto, many people will remember him for his role as Alaafin Ademuyiwa in Kunle Afolayan’s Aníkúlápó series, the 2022 Netflix film that became one of the most discussed Nigerian productions

Elsie Is Bringing Music Conversations to Our Doorsteps From Lagos to Toronto to the World – Onyema Dike

Now based between Lagos and Toronto, Elsie is bringing a new kind of African digital storytelling to the world. She’s bilingual in culture, able to code-switch between Afrobeat street trends and Western pop references with ease. This ability to exist in multiple cultural spaces without diluting her message makes her relatable, magnetic, and globally relevant.

Toni Kan in Conversation with Nels Abbey who says – My favourite book would be The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah.

She was a very unconventional writer, forthright in her blackness, in her beauty, in her brilliance, and she brought everything to the table and created a book that was so such a different world than the one that I lived in, but it’s such a black world too, an African-American world, and it’s one I really appreciated and um yeah, it pretty much helped cultivate me more as a writer.