Shallipoppi: Pushing the boundaries of pop culture or an irritable youth

Shallipoppi, the darling of Nigeria’s Gen Z generation, shot into limelight from the deep recesses of TikTok to national acclaim.

Jan 4, 2024 • 

Onyewuchi Ikechukwu

January 2023

The staggering significance of Nigeria’s 2023 elections

Depending on our electoral choices, a population boom could either be a blessing or, as some have predicted, a terrible curse.

Jan 11, 2023 • 

Solomon Elusoji

Banky W is leaving protests for power

“We have to get into the system to change it. We have to move from protest to power.”

Jan 10, 2023 • 

Solomon Elusoji

Peter Obi's masterplan to end insecurity in Nigeria

“We are in a democratic dispensation; you govern by discussing, you govern by consensus.”

Jan 9, 2023 • 

Solomon Elusoji

March 2022

Itoro Bassey’s debut novel is a different kind of immigrant story

What is the cost of charting your own path and seeking answers to heal age-old family wounds?

Mar 29, 2022 • 

SA Sanusi

October 2020

Songs for Broken Things: A Review of Chimeka Garricks’ A Broken People’s Playlist

This book is not only an ode to Port Harcourt, that beautiful city scarred by thug violence, environmental degradation, and citizen oppression; it is…

Oct 7, 2020 • 

SA Sanusi

August 2020

The melancholic allure of Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto's poetry

Here, in the poems below, excerpts from The Teenager Who Became My Mother, Ezenwa-Ohaeto bares his soul, again.

Aug 5, 2020 • 

The Question Marker

July 2020

Across China and back: Travelling with Solomon Elusoji’s Big Brother

The book "helped me to walk the world in another's shoes, to see it in their light and understand that places are different and people are diverse, yet…

Jul 10, 2020 • 

Abdullah Salisu

June 2020

The stories we should tell

"Expecting every storyteller to tell you feel-good stories, stories that help you sleep well at night, or seek the overthrow of a corrupt regime, is…

Jun 22, 2020 • 

Olisa Eloka

What do you really know about North Korea?

Anna Fifield’s Great Successor is a remarkable resource for those who want to understand one of the world’s most mysterious countries.

Jun 22, 2020 • 

Solomon Elusoji

You’ll make a good European

"The first time a boy asked me to date him because I am light-skinned, I was furious."

Jun 14, 2020 • 

Irene Ibiwari-Ikiriko

From Bauchi to Lagos during a Covid-19 Lockdown

"If the Corona is a viral pandemic as it is said to be, no one is taking it seriously, because being born into this country, is a pandemic in itself."

Jun 7, 2020 • 

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