By Jerry Chiemeke The closing weeks of any given year are usually associated with “light” cinema. In that four-to-five-week window, moviemakers are usually...
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Ladipoe, The Mild-Mannered Rapper Who Had To Work Hard For His Music To Gain Mainstream Recognition
By Emmanuel Daraloye If any Nigerian music artiste can be described as having played the long game, it would be Oladipo Eso, known to Nigerian music enthusiasts...
By Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera It is said that some are born great, others achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. This quote, while accurate...
By Michael Kolawole The pendulum of Nollywood is swinging back to the early ’90s and 2000s when the industry was filled with average filmmakers whose films were...
By Fatiat Saliu For years, the general discourse around Olamide (apart from his obvious talent) has been about his “inability” to make music that...
By Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera Shortly before he released the album Sex over Love, Blaqbonez put out a tweet in which he declared the album to be “his truth.” When...
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Funkcleff, The Former Choir Boy Who’s Overcome Health Challenges To Launch A Budding Music Career
By Fatiat Saliu Funkcleff, real name Funebi Guembe Odede, was born and raised in Port Harcourt, the sixth from a family of seven, and had popular gospel singer...
By Fatiat Saliu Do you remember when you hadn’t heard of anyone called Omah Lay, or Tems, or even Ladipoe? Can you imagine a time when they weren’t in...
By Jerry Chiemeke In a country like Nigeria that is bedeviled by poverty, unemployment, and insecurity, it is commonplace to see people latch on to any sort of...
By Freddie Jacob Atheism is the absence of belief in the existence of a god or deity. In African countries that are largely religious and conservative like...
By Jerry Chiemeke Less is more. Yes, we hear that very often, but it has to be agreed that the ability to create the desired effect with fewer tools is an art form in...
By Jerry Chiemeke Before DVDs and blu-ray, there were video CDs, and before those, there were the not-so-light rectangular objects known as video cassettes. They were...
By Dami Ajayi Lagos is the city of sin. It plays host to jaded men, lying women and tons of broken dreams. Here, married men say “it’s not that serious”...
By Freddie Jacob Allyship involves amplifying, promoting, and supporting social justice, equality, and human rights for marginalized or oppressed groups by a...
