Category: Culture
We are excited that Netflix has picked up its first African animated series, ‘Mama K’s Team 4’!
Netflix is so committed towards growing its African content that it intends to add its first original African animated series ...
No one is surprised that Reno Omokri is homophobic, and this makes him the second popular figure to spew anti-gay rhetoric this month
Nothing that Reno Omokri tweets should surprise you. The former media aide to erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan has managed to ...
How Nigerians on Twitter reacted to the season eight premiere of ‘Game of Thrones’
Warning: If you are yet to watch the premiere of ‘Game of Thrones’ season eight, do yourself a favour and ...
Entertainment roundup: Disney releases official trailer for ‘The Lion King’; Mo Abudu emerges as first African to win the Médailles d’Honneur Award
Here are the biggest stories you may have missed in entertainment during the week and others that unraveled while you ...
The #ROKMeTour in Lagos had fans and celebrities networking under one roof and we’ve got pictures!
Mary Njoku, CEO of ROK Studios, alongside superstar Nollywood friends Desmond Elliot, Bolanle Ninalowo, Chinedu Ikedieze, Annie Idibia and Efe ...
Did DStv miss a great chance to have more subscribers by not launching a ‘Game of Thrones’ pop-up channel?
With the burgeoning amount of content on Netflix these days, I have somewhat been weaned from cable television. I still ...
SZA has changed her name to Amarachi Chinonso on Instagram because why not
You may now address American alternative R&B singer SZA by her Nigerian name Amarachi Chinonso, recently changed on her Instagram. ...
We are over the moon that Mo Abudu has emerged as the first African to win the Médailles d’Honneur Award
The prestigious MIPTV Médailles d’Honneur is awarded to senior executives who have, through their talent, leadership, and passion made a ...
Dear Gideon Okeke, Marc Jacobs and his partner don’t even know you exist so shove your homophobia elsewhere
Last weekend famed fashion designer Marc Jacobs tied the knot with Charly Defrancesco in a private ceremony in Rye, New ...
It looks like Mariam Jimoh’s delivery app Oja is a fraud, and Twitter has all the receipts
Oja is a food delivery service founded by Miriam Jimoh, which seeks to make ethnic foods readily available by connecting ...
Burna Boy had a sold out show at NYC’s Apollo Theater, and we have got photos!
Over the weekend, Burna Boy got to perform at the prestigious and historic Apollo Theater in New York City, a ...
Entertainment Roundup: Warner Bros releases tragic first trailer for Joaquin Phoenix’s ‘Joker’; Issa Rae engaged to longtime boyfriend Louis Diame | Other stories
Here are the biggest stories you may have missed in entertainment during the week and others that unraveled while you ...
What in the hell is this generic African accent by Trevor Noah on Nigerians importing pizza from the U.K?
Trevor Noah‘s The Daily Show has satirized topical Nigerian news in the past, quite recently the Jussie Smollett saga involving ...
Funke Akindele’s new YouTube channel is already the best thing on the internet
Funke Akindele doesn’t need any introduction. Like most celebrities in the entertainment industry, social media has given them the opportunity ...
9/11 terrorist attacks stopped Chigurl’s dreams from being on Broadway
Chigurl‘s meteoric rise in Nigerian popular entertainment might appear to have happened overnight, until I saw the four-part Netflix series ...
Viola Davis taps Nnedi Okorafor, Wanuri Kahiu to adapt Octavia Butler’s ‘Wild Seed’ for Amazon!
It’s the biggest news this week in black popular culture: Viola Davis will help to adapt the first of Octavia ...
‘MTV Shuga: Down South’ has never shied away from LGBTQ representation. ‘MTV Shuga Naija,’ what are you still waiting for???
MTV Shuga: Down South is in its second season, and the fifth episode will go down as one of its ...
Waje says she’s going to quit music, blames lousy, hypocritical Nigerians for not buying ‘Red Velvet’
In a clip that began to circulate on social media on Sunday, R&B powerhouse Waje was granting an interview wherein ...
The 2019 GTBank Food and Drink Festival is here again!
Get Ready For a ‘Four Times Bigger’ Event: April 28th – May 1st 2019. Mark the dates! Africa’s biggest culinary ...
The new Budweiser ad wants you to unfollow the norm, but what was missing was Bobrisky
Budweiser, a beer brand from International Breweries, launched in Nigeria in 2018 and is slowly disrupting the two-horse race between ...
It’s 2019 and Nigerian men still shame single women with Shiloh? Weird flex
Brethren, it’s the Year of Our Lord 2019 and Nigerian men have made me question yet again why I share ...