By Fatiat Saliu For years, the general discourse around Olamide (apart from his obvious talent) has been about his “inability” to make music that...
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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...
Features and Essays
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...
By Margaret Agwu If you watch as many Nollywood movies as I do, it’s either you love being immersed in the stories or you’re a Nigerian. I don’t know which is...
By Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera It could be argued that one of the grand efforts of Nollywood has been in the portrayal of pre-colonial society in movies. The...
Culture
How Igbo Traditional Religion Intersects With Modern Christianity, And Why The Igbos Easily Embraced The “White Man’s Religion”
By Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera The spread of Christianity was a very pivotal factor in the eventual success of colonial conquest in Eastern Nigeria. Though...
By Emmanuel Daraloye Erigga, the Nigerian rapper, goes with a plethora of sobriquets: Paper Boi, New Money, Day Break, or Everywhere Burst. However, the name you...
