Features and Essays

Afrobeats
After the Peak: What Is Next for Afrobeats?

Afrobeats to the World was a movement that had strong interest from important places, and…

Mavo
Zaylevelten, Mavo: The Case for the Nouveau Underground

Mavo’s generation takes creative inspiration from hiding: they’re almost elitist in the use of coded…

Afrobeats
On Afrobeats to the World: Where Is the Line Between Evolution and Identity Crisis?

Afrobeats’ current condition reflects the tensions inherent in global success. As a sound, it continues…

African music
There is Nothing New Under the Sun (That African Music Hasn’t Already Lived Through)

Is Afrobeats losing its creative spark, or is it in a decrescendo? These questions go…

livestreaming
The Popularity, Tensions, and Criticisms of Livestreaming in Contemporary Nigerian Pop Culture

Criticisms of livestreaming will never go away, but more and more people will likely embrace…

Kenyan poetry
The Layers of Kenyan Poetry: From Resistance to Confession

The territory of Kenyan poetry has contracted from the nation to the self, and the…

Afrobeats
The Afrobeats Takeover: A Myth of Institutional Power

Being invited to perform in a house is not the same as holding the deed.…

June 12
Should We Actually Celebrate June 12 As Nigeria’s Democracy Day?

If June 12 means anything, it cannot simply be that Nigerians once demanded democracy. It…

Jamir Nazir
[Opinion] Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth-Winning Story “The Serpent in the Grove”: A Beautifully Told Story or an AI Mash-Up Job?

Can we say that between the prize and the story and Jamir Nazir, there is…

African Filmmaking
African Filmmaking at the Crossroads of Oscars Reform and AI Ethics

For African cinema, the pathway expansion is a blessing in disguise at first glance. It…