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Afrocritik’s Top 50 African Music Projects of 2025
Afrocritik’s Top 50 African Music Projects of 2025

This list documents the breadth and depth of African music in 2025, and it stands…

Detty December Fest 2025
Detty December Fest 2025 Closes with Star-Studded Performances in Lagos

With its blend of global stars, African excellence, and immersive production, Detty December Fest 2025…

Afrocritik’s 10 Nollywood Projects on YouTube Worth Watching in 2025
Afrocritik’s 10 Nollywood Projects on YouTube Worth Watching in 2025

Afrocritik recognises 10 Nollywood projects on YouTube that were worth watching—and are still worth watching,…

Afrocritik’s Notable African Books of 2025
Afrocritik’s Notable African Books of 2025

The good news is that African writers are still firing on all cylinders in all…

Olaolu Slawn
Olaolu Slawn Opens Landmark Homecoming Exhibition, BOBO, in Lagos

Rather than a retrospective, the exhibition presents a body of new works that return to…

Afrocritik’s 50 Remarkable Short Stories of 2025
Afrocritik’s 50 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2025

Are our stories accessible to their primary audience? Whose interests are served by placing our…

Afrocritik’s 20 Remarkable African Short Films of 2025
Afrocritik’s 20 Remarkable African Short Films of 2025

African filmmakers have continued to take advantage of the short film form, and the most…

Muganga
“Muganga, Celui Qui Soigne” Review: Marie-Hélène Roux’s Film Explores the Radical Practice of Care

Muganga, Celui Qui Soigne advances a proposition that compassion practised daily, even without applause, remains…

Fenestration
Carrying These Poems Far Into the Middle and Beyond: A Review of Othuke Umukoro’s “Fenestration”

By and large, we find in Umukoro’s Fenestration, poems that are alive, awake and aware;…

Afrocritik’s 40 Notable African Essays of 2025
Afrocritik’s 40 Notable Essays from Africa in 2025

Within the contemporary cultural ferment in Africa, where art—in all its variegated forms—has taken centre…