Category: Culture
Entertainment roundup: Tiwa Savage leaves Mavin, signs new record deal with Universal Music Group; ‘Game of Thrones’ director casts Nigerian actor Shobowale Bamgbose in Warner Bros film | Other stories
Here are the biggest stories you may have missed in entertainment during the week and others that unraveled while you ...
Tonto Dikeh is playing with the idea of writing a tell-all book titled ‘Surviving Churchill’
Tonto Dikeh‘s buzzy, tell-all interview is still reverberating through social media, wherein she countered claims made by her ex-husband Churchill ...
The wife of Malawi’s vice president rapping to campaign for her husband is all what you need to see today
On May 21, Malawians will head to the polls to vote in the general elections. As such, Mary Nkhamanyachi Chilima, ...
The 2019 GTBank Food and Drink Festival was a blast – observations from a foodie
I have never attended the GTBank Food and Drink Festival, and maybe because I have always seen the event as ...
Diana Evans and Oyinkan Braithwaite are the only Nigerian authors whose books have been shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction
This year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist was announced Sunday evening, and out of six books My Sister, the Serial ...
Seun Kuti says Africans didn’t know about subjugating women until colonisation came and wow, this incredible ignorance
When it comes to personal politics, I have never held Nigerian celebrities to any standard. They are, after all, humans. ...
Layo Bright and Ajibola are spotlighting labour rights with ‘Maid In Nigeria’
We are all too familiar with domestic labour in Nigeria; the women, men, and sometimes young girls and boys that ...
Entertainment roundup: Idris Elba weds Sabrina Dhowre in beautiful Moroccan wedding; ‘Avengers: Endgame’ breaks global box office record | Other stories
Here are the biggest stories you may have missed in entertainment during the week and others that unraveled while you ...
Hey, look, Daenerys as a Nigerian mother is the best meme from #GOT’s second episode
While the buzz around the final return of Game of Thrones may have slightly dissipated, the second episode was sweet ...
Good riddance! Nnedi Okorafor unfriended a man on Facebook who had sexist views about women
I follow Nnedi Okorafor on Twitter, and one thing that I have noticed about her online personality is that she ...
Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright dazzled at the world premiere of ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and now we can’t wait to see the movie
With less than seventy-two hours to the release one of the year’s robustly anticipated movie, Avengers: Endgame, cast members were ...
The age of the ‘active muse’ is over; its time for Nigerian stylists to get serious
At the 2017 and 2018 Lagos Fashion Week (LFWNG) showcases, commissioned stylists were conspicuously absent. Their absence was obvious because ...
Four important things we observed from the FUPA debate on Twitter
On Easter Sunday, Twitter was arrested by yet another contentious issue: a user on the platform @ladytiffs_ posted a full-length ...
Entertainment roundup: Universal Pictures releases crazy second trailer for ‘Hobbs & Shaw’; Tinsel actor Gideon Okeke ties knot with Chidera Uduezue | Other stories
Here are the biggest stories you may have missed in entertainment during the week and others that unraveled while you ...
From Coachella to album listening party: Burna Boy’s ”African Giant” already feels like a summer hit
Off from an interesting Coachella set last weekend, Burna Boy had a listening party for his upcoming album African Giant, ...
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 ...
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