Tag: Lagos

Remembering through ruins at the Enugu Photo Festival 2025 – Anulika Iwoba

What emerges from this confluence is an exhibition of emotional and intellectual breadth. Across the artists, there is coherence, despite geographical and formal differences. From Ruins to Remembrance is in that sense a wake-up call. The festival holds up ruins not to glamourise decay, but to demand accountability: for heritage, for neglect, and for stories that risk being forgotten.

“My Father’s Shadow” Explores the Personal Within Nigeria’s Political Memory – Joseph Jonathan

My Father’s Shadow is not a film that tells you what to think about 1993 or about Nigeria’s long arc of disappointments. It’s a film that teaches you how to feel history: to smell it, taste it, hold it against your ribs. It’s a portrait of a father whose love is messy and incomplete, and a nation whose promises frequently arrive late or not at all.

The City as Villain: Lagos in the imagination of Nollywood – Joseph Jonathan

Lagos, more than any other space in Nollywood, crystallises the contradictions of Nigeria itself. The city promises opportunity yet metes out hardship with the same intensity; it dazzles with its excess while suffocating with its scarcity. To enter Lagos on-screen is to be confronted with the paradoxes that define the nation = ambition and corruption, resilience and fatigue, spectacle and decay.

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.