Culture

The Beautiful Lie of “Making It”
The Beautiful Lie of “Making It”: Kenyan Youth, Hustle Culture, and the New Local Dream

For many, soft life is just another impossible aspiration that quietly reinforces the same capitalist…

holy hustle
Sanctified Sleeplessness: Nigeria’s Addiction to Holy Hustle

The spiritualisation of hustle functions, in part, as a theodicy: a way to explain suffering…

What Being Disabled Taught Me About Nigerians
What Being Disabled Taught Me About Nigerians

Our kindness is conditional. It’s built on how convincingly you can wear your pain. And…

university
Prestige vs Payoff: Do University Rankings Still Matter in Nigeria?

In Nigeria today, rankings hold symbolic power, but their practical relevance is weakening under pressure…

power
Why Nigeria Still Can’t Find Its Balance of Power

It is quite ironic that a lot of Nigerians complain and languish under the current…

talking stage
Neither Here nor There: The Talking Stage as Nigeria’s New Relationship Culture

The talking stage, in all its messiness, is Nigeria’s new relationship culture. Neither here nor…

Women
Undoing the Knots Society Tied in Your Mind

Your ideals and opinions are informed by the ideals and opinions favourable to them because…

Surnames
Whose Name Do You Bear? The Politics of Surnames and the Erasure of African Women

The erasure of African women through surnames is not tradition, and it is not culture.…

Labubu dolls
How Capitalists Are Exploiting Us Through ‘Must-Haves’

What Labubu dolls, AI therapists, and Stanley Cups reveal is not just the power of…

To Kill a Monkey
To Kill a Conversation: Nollywood, Criticism, and the Culture of Silence

The danger of the constant antagonistic resistance to criticism is that it fosters a shallow…