Husband Is Useless is a novel that surprises with its ability to hold one’s attention for 400 pages, beyond what the base ...

Francis Duru deserves to be remembered as a Nigerian actor who gave his working life to the craft, helped shape the ...

The Return unfolds with theatrical sentimentality, its actions and characters melodramatic and larger-than-life, partly ...

I find my melody first, then I fill the melody with words. Sometimes I get my chorus first and build my verse around it”. — Ṣẹwà ...

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives remains an entertaining domestic drama, enlivened by its dialogue, committed ...

The women in Black Market are too generic to carry the full weight of the premise. They function as a collective rather than ...

And truly, the poetry in Unbind Me Now is angry, filled with outrage and umbrage, or at least performs it (no matter what, ...

Starlomo finds the right setting and a compelling cultural premise, but its underdeveloped screenplay prevents these ...

Contained in this LCA! Film Festival 2026 Dispatch are brief reviews and commentaries on the five films on the programme not previously covered by ...

What sounds like nostalgia at first begins to look like something more deliberate: a generation of emerging Nigerian artistes searching the past for sounds that can help them stand out in the present.

For many African artistes, merchandise begins and ends with a T-shirt bearing their name. In other music markets, the T-shirt is only the beginning. A name in cursive font. An album cover printed ...

The Caine Prize for African Writing, the most prestigious award for African short stories, has returned in 2026 with a remarkable shortlist of five stories after what might be called a hiatus last ...