Culture

Culture
Nigeria’s Creative Industries: Why Money Cannot Fix Culture

The question, then, is not whether Nigeria’s creative industries will continue to attract investment. The…

Igbo
Traditional Leadership and Its Mirroring: What the Igbo Unlanded Kingship Means

The cultural practices of the Igbo often proceed from allegiance to culture and clan. Wherever…

AI
Who Owns African Culture in the Age of AI?

In the age of AI, ownership of African culture should be understood less as private…

The Afrocritik Report 2025
The Afrocritik Report 2025: Note From the Editor-in-Chief

Rather than offering a simple chronology of events, this Report seeks to map patterns—to trace…

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.…