With almost 1,000 book, music, movie, and sundry reviews and essays published over the past four (4) years, we remain resolute in our belief that reviews offer us the first critical engagement with a work of art, books, movies, music, plays etc, because they help shape opinion, excite conversation, and push engagement.As we enter our 5th year, we remain committed to providing a unique space for interrogating our literary and artistic output and providing a handle for the audience and those in the academia to assess these works of literature and art.
Ed Keazor and the Lagos AfroFunk Collective rocked The African Center with an expansive and rollicking musical odyssey through West Africa tracing the percussion heavy trajectory and provenance of contemporary African music
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)
Asa owned the stage for the two hours she was on it, prancing, dancing, preening and jerking as the spirit led. It was the performance of a bonafide star who has come into her own.
Portable, with a size of confidence that belies his name, created a life-size image of himself off the strength of...
Rave & Roses works for the right reasons. It plays to Rema’s strengths while avoiding sonic complacency or over-dependence on production chops.
Our music section was a mélange of reportage and analytical reviews, tracing the musical journeys of some of our top...
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"
Every song on What Is Your Breaking Point? which was released on June 9, spreads its own bit of Nigerian...
From his lead single ‘Tonongo’ to ‘Monalisa’, both on his collaborative EP with Sarz LV N ATTN, Lojay has been...
The release of Mr. Money with The Vibe began a chain reaction of unprecedented artistic success for the 27- year-old...
And for those who rate sonic enjoyability over thematic depth, there is just as much satisfaction to be had