Features and Essays
At a moment when politics presses hardest on daily East African life, the music that…
Christopher Okigbo was likewise a remarkable conversationalist. [In his interviews], he gave precise answers that…
The question is not whether Nollywood can build a star system. It’s whether it wants…
To question prayer in Nigeria is to commit spiritual arrogance. Rational inquiry reads as rebellion.…
Kenyan letters have travelled from the raptures of a Kwani? generation into a documentation age…
Poetry clarifies and enriches our lives because it can make us stop and look closely…
Kenya’s social capital, its audiences, is now a cultural weapon that determines what travels globally…
Art is where power becomes visible and legible as songs, images, or performances are the…
Mister Johnson stages colonial modernity as a cruel pedagogy—the policy of assimilation, one that teaches…
Within the contemporary cultural ferment in Africa, where art—in all its variegated forms—has taken centre…
