Afrocritik, a melting pot for African expression, is a niche- and fully-serviced media outfit catering to African entertainment, african arts, culture, and lifestyle.
Cognizant of our diversity and rich multi-cultural uniqueness, we tell African stories through African lens, inviting the world to the luxury that is Africa.
With African arts, culture and entertainment increasingly gaining ascendancy and notoriety at the global stage, especially with regards to the African music, fashion, literary, and film industries, there arises the need for a platform that carefully and professionally informs, educates, and showcases to a global audience the goings-on in the industry.
Afrocritik, being a first of its kind, has chosen to do this by curating rich African content, publishing cultural essays, organising interviews, and engaging in general art criticism.
Poised to becoming the most authoritative voice in the continent’s media and cultural space, we work and collaborate with seasoned writers, top professionals, and industry experts from different parts of Africa to achieve this.
Towards this, we welcome stellar submissions, to be forwarded to entries@afrocritik.com, as we jointly project Africa, one word, one story at a time!
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Samson Jikeme is an entertainment lawyer, mediapreneur, culture critic, and businessman. He is an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University (Loyola Law School), Los Angeles, California, and Pan-Atlantic University (School of Media and Communications), Lagos, Nigeria. He is passionate and curious about the evolving dynamics of the Entertainment, Arts, and Culture industry in Africa.
Twitter: @sjikeme. Instagram:@sam_culture
Email: samson.jikeme@afrocritik.com
Owanate Max-Harry is a commercial attorney, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of Afrocritik amongst other initiatives.
An alumnus of the University of Houston, Owanate is passionate about emerging industries and their intersection with technology.
In his spare time, you can catch him in a ball park with his favorite baseball team.
Email: owanate.maxharry@afrocritik.com
Nzube Nlebedim is a Nigerian writer and editor. He is the founding editor of The Shallow Tales Review, an electronic literary journal curating African Literature and Black writing. He is a former West Africa Field Editor for Energy Capital & Power, Mauritius, and an alumnus of the University of Lagos.
Vivian Nneka Nwajiaku is a writer, lawyer and editor. She is a film critic for Afrocritik and occasionally contributes to Sisterly HQ. Her works have also appeared on Kalahari Review and Guardian Life.
Email: vivian.nwajiaku@afrocritik.com
Emmanuel Daraloye is Africa’s most prolific music critic. He has more than 500 album reviews in his archive.
Email: emmanuel.daraloye@afrocritik.com
Sybil Fekurumoh is a writer, poet and future Nigerian Minister for Agriculture. She’s the editor for Soft Pallet Newsletter, a newsletter that covers tech, politics and culture. She’s passionate about books, literature, and SDG 4 — Quality Education.
Email: sybilf@afrocritik.com
John Augustina is a writer, journalist and a singer. She currently reviews music for Afrocritik.
Email: augustina.john@afrocritik.com
Blessing Chinwendu Nwankwo is a writer, accountant and beautician. She is passionate about travelling the world and learning about lifestyles and cultural differences. She runs her YouTube channel—Keeping it Real with Bee— that covers lifestyle, relationship, and food.
Email: blessing.nwankwo@afrocritik.com
Chimezie Chika’s short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in, amongst other places, The Question Marker, The Shallow Tales Review, The Kalahari Review, The Lagos Review, Praxis Magazine, Brittle Paper and Aerodrome. A finalist for Africa Book Club Short Reads Competition (2013), he is a 2021 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writer’s Residency. His interests range from culture to history, art, literature, and the environment.
Email: chimezie.chika@afrocritik.com
Yinoluwa “Yinoluu” Olowofoyeku is a multi-disciplinary artist and creative who finds expression in various media (photography, architecture, writing, theatre, music, and more). He is driven by a passion for storytelling and communicating emotions. He can be found on most social media @Yinoluu.
Email: yinoluu@afrocritik.com
Seyi Lasisi is a Nigerian student with an obsessive interest in Nigerian and African films as an art form. His film criticism aspires to engage the subtle and obvious politics, sentiments, and opinions of the filmmaker to see how it aligns with reality. He tweets @SeyiVortex.
Email: seyi.lasisi@afrocritik.com
Helena Olori is a talented multimedia journalist and content writer with passion for storytelling. She has keen interest in creative art, and enjoys staying abreast with latest happenings in the film industry and exploring what makes the movie business tick.
Email: helena.olori@afrocritik.com
Ijeoma Anastasia Ntada writes and reads poetry, fiction and non fiction. She has a couple of poems published in the Love Anthology, The Ducor Review, Visual Verse, Praxis Review and other places.
Ijeoma is also a photography enthusiast. She takes beautiful photographs and makes them art.
When Ijeoma isn’t studying to become a Laboratory Scientist, you’ll find her talking about Afro Hair, femininity, and embracing all of her girlhood.
Email: Ijeoma.ntada@afrocritik.com
Hope Ibiale is a writer and a book lover. She is currently a student of Communication and Language Arts at the University of Ibadan.
Email: hope.ibiale@afrocritik.com
Joy Chukwujindu is an art and entertainment lawyer. She is also an environmentalist with a keen interest in history, art and sustainable development.
When she’s not lawyering, she’s designing spaces and planning events. You can connect with her on Instagram @joyjindu and Twitter @joy_jinduu.
Email: joy.jindu@afrocritik.com
