It was glaring that the West had started to take interest in African music way back before Beyonce ever met Wizkid. However, trust the West to control that narrative and...
Category - Features and Essays
…despite several centuries of fusing other western genres, such as RnB, Hip-hop, and so on, folk music has survived… By Chinonso Ihekire If history has...
As a child, Jahun recalls that he watched his father tame several hyenas, an animal considered one of the most dangerous in the forest… By David Adewusi The...
Features and Essays
Nollywood’s Sexist Tropes and the Stereotypical Portrayal of Women in Contemporary Nigerian Movies
One would think that with all the progress that has been made culturally, the femme fatale would have become confined to the history books. But with movies like La Femme...
In 2011, Russian Sergio Mavrodi launched the MMM Global Ponzi scheme that had subsidiaries in many African countries. After the Ponzi scheme failed in Russia, it...
