Features and Essays

Skincare
Skin Is Skinning: How Nigeria’s Skincare Culture Became a Movement and a Market

The straw of the thriving skincare business in Nigeria could also be traced to the…

The Yoruba Traitor as Political Construction: A Response to Sam Omatseye’s “The Yoruba Traitors”

Institutionally, it is perhaps best ethical if Sam Omatseye and The Nation pay silence to…

nigerian novels
Interior Is a Country: On Nigerian Novels and the Limits of the Screen

Nigerian novels are not unfinished blueprints awaiting visual realisation. They are finished architectures of thought.…

Ernest Jesuyemi
The Poet’s Convenient Martyrdom (A Rejoinder to Ernest Jesuyemi’s “The Wrong Kind of Black Poet”)

What Ernest Jesuyemi genuinely wants is a literary culture capacious enough to hold divergent, even…

Children of Blood and Bone
[Opinion]: Who and What Does the “Children of Blood and Bone” Film Adaptation Really Represent?

Fascination can very easily translate to an obsession over aesthetics at the expense of a…

streaming
Streaming Africa: Predicting the Growth and Adoption of Online Video Platforms Across African Markets (2026–2031)

Future growth in Africa’s video streaming market will likely be more reliant on centralised, ecosystem-driven…

film incubators
How Film Incubators Are Transforming Talent Development, Financing and Market Access in African Cinema

Film incubators offer intensive programmes designed to help directors, producers, screenwriters and other designated film…

Nigerian Literature
The Endless Work of Culture Positioning: The Challenge for Nigerian Literature

We must not only question the failures of our literary space, but we must also…

Slave Trade
Recognition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a Crime Against Humanity Should Lead to Repair

No form of reparations can ever fully compensate for the gravity of the transatlantic slave…

Afrobeats
The Paternity Test of Afrobeats

Afrobeats is the polar opposite of Afrobeat, musically and philosophically. Which raises the only question…