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The disputed history of Who first called it “Nollywood”
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, as flickering images from Nigeria’s chaotic video film industry began spilling onto satellite…
Subtitles as gateways: Why Nigerian films need better translations
A few years ago, watching a Nollywood film with subtitles could be a test of patience. A Yoruba warrior might…
How Chimamanda Adichie’s words became Beyoncé’s Feminist anthem
It was an ordinary afternoon in Lagos when Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s words began an extraordinary journey. Alone in a modest…
The Lagos Nightclub where Afrobeat was born
On certain Lagos nights in the late 1960s, the city pulsed with a sound that was neither highlife nor jazz,…
Burna Boy’s Lagos Blues: Before the Grammys, there was Struggle
Lagos is not kind to dreamers. The city carries its own pulse—a soundscape of danfo horns, market women’s bargaining cries,…
2pac and Notorious B.I.G: The smiles they shared, the secrets they kept, the bullets that silenced them
Two names, two voices, two destinies tangled in a web of fame, envy, loyalty, and danger. Tupac Shakur and The…
Rapper Cardi B cleared of assault charges in $24m lawsuit
Grammy-winning rapper, Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar Cephus popularly known Cardi B has been cleared of all assault allegations in a $24…
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