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Worse Than Fire
“Worse Than Fire”: On Water, Violence, and the Fragility of Home

Worse Than Fire feels like walking through Maiduguri after the water has dried. The air…

Jameson Distillery on Tour
Jameson Distillery on Tour 2025 Wraps Up with an Unforgettable Celebration of Music, Fashion, and Culture

This year’s event featured a vibrant mix of established stars and rising acts across Afrobeats,…

Dodo Ikire
“Dodo Ikire” Review: Abdulafiz Opeyemi Shittu’s Ode to the Women Feeding a Nation

What Dodo Ikire ultimately captures, perhaps unintentionally at first, is how deeply entrenched women are…

Everything Is Not Enough
“Everything Is Not Enough” Review: Lola Akinmade Åkerström’s Sequel Deepens Her Mirror of Black Womanhood and Survival

What Lola Akinmade Åkerström interrogates through the women in Everything Is Not Enough is how…

Alexander Nderitu
“Nairobi Is a City Where Literature Thrives”: In Conversation With Alexander Nderitu, Africa’s First Digital Novelist

I have always believed that authors make great entertainers, too, and deserve celebrity status” —…

beef
Has Nigerian Hip-Hop Found Its Mojo Again?

Listeners still crave the wordplay, punchlines, creativity, and raw artistry that make rap magnetic. More…

Olakunle Ologunro
Olakunle Ologunro Awarded 2025/2026 Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship at Colgate University

For Olakunle Ologunro, the fellowship marks a recognition of his emerging literary influence and an…

NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature
The Cuttings of 2025: Are African Literary Prizes Out of Touch?

The death of literary criticism is the death of literary culture in the most literal…

Merchandise
Ignoring Africa’s Sports Merchandise Market Is Costing Clubs Millions

Part of the challenge lies in consumer culture. In many parts of Africa, buying branded…

The Annual Film Mischief 2025
The Annual Film Mischief (TAFM) 2025: Film Reviews

The fourth edition of The Annual Film Mischief (TAFM) remains in progress across Nigeria, Ghana,…