Culture

Akwete
The Akwete Renaissance and the Politics of Nigerian Fast Fashion

The Akwete cloth is usually made into wrappers for women, and it is a textile-making…

Kissing
The Performance of Purity: Nollywood, Kissing and Nigeriaʼs Faux Conservatism

The outrage over kissing is not the expression of ancient tradition. It is the performance…

University of Ibadan
University of Ibadan’s First Class Graduates and the Performance Debate in Nigerian Universities

The issue is mostly not the graduates themselves, but the quality of the system producing…

Billboard
Who Shapes Our Narratives?: Afrobeats, Billboard, and the Barometers of Success in African Music

To recalibrate the balance of cultural authority, African music publications must be adequately resourced and…

Valentineʼs Day
Valentineʼs Day Is a Scam, But Romance Still Isnʼt

Valentineʼs Day in Nigeria has become less about love and more about the appearance of…

Pray
Why Do Nigerians Pray So Much?

To question prayer in Nigeria is to commit spiritual arrogance. Rational inquiry reads as rebellion.…

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…