A Society of Hyena-Owning Witches

Four boys on their way to school in the Gusii highlands stumble upon a dead hyena beneath a felled tree. What follows — a butcher’…

Operations Manager of a Miracle

Coach Oliver Berdeen Johnson — the Father of Nigerian Basketball — has spent over 50 years building a legacy on and off the court.…

Tiaago Is Transforming Hiring in Africa With Its  AI-Powered OS

Across the globe, the job market is filled with budding talents all vying for a place at the table. Every day, millions of applica…

Oghenevwegba Ransome Is Building a Web3 Playbook with Wins and Hard Lessons

From flipping NFTs to saving over $1,000 in meme coins, Wegba has consistently turned small wins into stepping stones in his quest…

The Writer Behind the Books You Think Someone Else Wrote

Tobiloba Afolayan is a ghostwriter with three books of his own and nine years of writing behind other people’s names. In this edit…

He Wrote Trauma in 2021. The World Needed It More in 2026.

Temitayo Adekola writes about the experiences African society would rather look away from. His novelette Trauma, first written in …

The Romance Novelist Who Believes Love Is Never Just Romantic

Nonye Jennifer Amaechi on writing as survival, her debut novel Black Ink White Paper, and why love in her fiction is never simple.…

Oghenevwegba Ransome Is Building a Web3 Playbook with Wins and Hard Lessons

From flipping NFTs to saving over $1,000 in meme coins, Wegba has consistently turned small wins into stepping stones in his quest…

How Tife Ajayi Turned an IT Placement Into a Thriving Broadcasting Career

Baba Segi’s Household Is Finally Coming to the Big Screen This December

Lola Shoneyin’s 2010 novel has already lived several lives. It became a stage play that earned a five-star review from The Guardia…

Witsprouts Opens Nominations for the Second Edition of Its Storytelling Prize

The Witsprouts Storytelling Prize is now open for nominations for its second edition, with The Witsprouts Project inviting a much …

After a Year Off, KAFART Returns as a Biennial — And Bigger in Scope

The Kaduna Fashion and Art Exhibition (KAFART) will hold its sixth edition this October from the 22nd to the 25th involving severa…

Doechii on Her Late Discovery of JAY-Z’s Catalog and the Power of Hip-Hop Tradition

The Grammy-winning TDE artist opens up about studying Shawn Carter’s growth, balancing Southern roots, and upholding the historica…

Nollywood’s AI Problem Is Actually an Audience Problem

Last week, Niyi Akinmolayan’s Colours of Fire hit Netflix. Within forty-eight hours, Nigerian social media had turned it into a re…

F.O.R.S.A.K.E.N review: Abdulsalam Saba’s Exploration of Silence and Missed Chances

There is something quietly unsettling about the stories we never tell. They remain with us, growing louder in memory than they eve…

Aisha A. Bolaji Tends to the Wounds of Girls in Full Bloom in Flowers at the City of Dreams

When you pick up Aishat A. Bolaji’s Flowers at the City of Dreams, you should read the dedication first. “Dedicated to the courage…

How We Argue

We talk every day — haggling, bantering, praying, debating on X — but how many of us have actually learned how to argue well? In t…