Month: August 2022
How Young Nigerian Creatives are Coping with Inaccess to the Right Tools
"When I first started writing," says Destiny, a promising writer and voice-over artist…
This Is How You Move On From Grief That Has Run It’s Course as a Comforter
Grief - the bitter pill we all have to swallow at one…
Onyeka Nwelue Believes Africa is a Graveyard of Wasted Dreams
The Nigerian filmmaker, publisher, talk-show host, bookseller, author, serial founder, and contemporary…
Why I Never Want Kids of My Own Even Though I Love Children
My big sister welcomed her first child on a beautiful, bright Saturday…
Islamophobia In One Of The Most Dangerous Countries For Christians
I come from a secular country with a profoundly religious society. After…
Chidera Anikpe Asks His Mother About Death
Herein, Chidera discusses his new poem, "How To Love A Boy For…
How To Love A Boy For Whom Blue Is Not Merely A Color
Deadness sits on his wrist;Thin slits of spilling redness; the life waterThat…
From Afrobeat to Afro-x: A Brief Account of the Evolution of the Genre
Since the death of Nigerian instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Afrobeat…
How the Patriarchy Wars Against the African Man’s Mental Health
We don't talk enough about the mental health of the African man,…
Is Hollywood Ever Going to Stop Viewing Africa Through Neocolonial Lenses?
Westerners have a long and continuous history of deliberately portraying the African…
Hacking Female Joy: 6 Ways Women Can Attain Well-Deserved Bliss
Women go through a lot daily, from the thinly veiled gender-biased dismissals…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Notes on Grief” Shows Me that Grief is a Stranger
It's been roughly two years since the virus shook the world, and…