Culture

Tiwa Savage didn’t see many dark-skinned women while growing up, and now she wants to be the much-needed representation

Tiwa Savage posted a picture of herself online recently, using the words ”brown skin” and how she didn’t see black women while growing up. And although ”brown skin” is debatable in the context of semantics and ethnicity, we can all agree that the world today has been shaped by eurocentric standards of beauty where black... Read More

Dark-skinned women, tiwa savage

Rema is a promising, colossal trap king on new EP, ‘Rema Freestyle’

Before midnight on Wednesday, Rema surprise-released his second EP of the year suitably titled Rema Freestyle, a four-track project comprising his freestyles that has now gloriously trafficked in his emo-trap alter-ego. Finally. Since signing to Mavin Global’s new imprint Jonzing World this year, the 18-yr-old rapper’s pixie-dust popularity has cut through a restless swathe of... Read More

Culture, Featured, The Music Blog

Dumebi, Mavin World, Rema, Rema Freestyle EP

Mo Abudu has been announced as Chair of the 47th International Emmy Awards Gala

We reported back in February that EbonyLife TV founder and CEO Mo Abudu had been given a gold membership directors’ card by the International Academy of Television, Arts & Sciences, the platform responsible for staging the renowned Emmy Awards. Abudu announced in December last year that she was a now a member of a select... Read More

Culture, Featured

47th International Emmy Awards Gala, EbonyLife TV, Mo Abudu

FourthCanvas

Nigerian design gets a global boost as FourthCanvas heads to Cannes

Nigeria to the world once again as #WeGoVote, a civic engagement project of fast-rising design agency, FourthCanvas, has been selected as one of the best campaigns from across the world to be featured at this year’s Great Ads for Good Exhibition organised by ACT Responsible at the heart of the Cannes Lions International Festival of... Read More

Stop what you are doing and watch the trailer for Ifeoma Chukwuogo’s crime-drama series ”Under”

Ifeoma Chukwuogo’s splendid and incredibly moving short film Bariga Sugar, released in 2017, pegged her as an exciting director to watch out for. I have been eager to see what Chukwuogo would come up with next. Her followup, Under, with an official trailer out now, is a miniseries that makes an interesting pivot towards crime... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

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This Week In Music: Maleek Berry’s ”Flashy,” Burna Boy’s ”Anybody,” Black Magic’s ”Anything For Love,” and more

Because he has nothing better to do with his time, each Saturday, Bernard Dayo brings you the most awe-inspiring, confounding, addictive, or otherwise hilarious moments from the week in music. This week: The summer vibes of Burna Boy’s ”Anybody” Burna Boy released a summer-ready single Anybody yesterday, along with a flashy, energetic video. He says... Read More

Culture, Featured, The Film Blog

Black Magic, Burna boy, This Week In Music, Yemi Alade

Kemi Adetiba helped raised funds for teenagers to pursue their filmmaking ambitions and we just have to stan

When Kemi Adetiba isn’t making blockbusters, she is, as you’d soon learn, helping teenagers pursue their filmmaking ambitions. According to Adetiba, she was tagged on Twitter in a video made by some kids sourcing for funds to take their content creation to a higher level. I have spent a great deal of time consuming these... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

filmmaking, Kemi Adetiba, Sterling Bank, The Critics

TIERS

TIERs Releases Results from 2019 Social Perception Survey on LGBT+ Rights in Nigeria

The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) has announced the results of the fourth biennial Social Perception Survey on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights in Nigeria. The survey was conducted by Vivid Rain Business Resources, a leading resource for research and analysis. This poll was conducted in all the 36 states in Nigeria and... Read More

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Funfere

#MoreThanKinksAndLocs: The Funfere Koroye story

The third episode of #MORETHANINKANDLOCS features Funfere Koroye. Funfere Koroye is an Industrial Designer and Product Developer with years of experience. Cool, calm and collected, Funfere told us a story behind his tattoos and their meanings, like the most famous being the mask of the Benin Empire which is still being held by the... Read More

Chidera Muoka, Funfere Koroye

Bankole

#MoreThanKinksAndLocs: The Bankole Oluwafemi story

For this episode, we reached out to Bankole Oluwafemi, the Editor-In-Chief of Tech Cabal and co-founder of Big Cabal Media. Once he stepped into the studio, you instantly notice how reserved he is and how articulate he is when he is sharing his ideas. Describing himself as ‘your average boring person’, he still gets pulled... Read More

#MoreThanKinksandLocs: The Amanda Iheme story

The second episode of #MORETHANINKANDLOCS features Amanda Iheme. Amanda is a psychotherapist at Ndidi Health and an architectural photographer. Stepping into the studio, Amanda radiated an air of confidence and calmness. Talking with her, she shared that even though people love her hair she still gets questions like, “is this actually growing from your head?”.... Read More

Amanda Iheme, Locs, natural hair, tattoos

Here are the latest African shows you can binge on Netflix

The thing about Netflix deciding to expand their African content is that they have been quite consistent. At the 2019 Canne Film Festival, wherein Senegalese-French filmmkaer Mati Diop emerged as the first black female director to win the Grand Prix for her debut Atlantique, Netflix had quickly nabbed the film rights. Netflix has a huge... Read More

Culture, The Media Blog

Black Earth Rising, shadow, Siempre Bruja: Always A Witch

Twitter had much to say about Perruzi allegedly assaulting Twitter influencer Pamilerin Adegoke

Twitter has been frothing with reactions from Twitter influencer Pamilerin Adegoke accusing Peruzzi of assaulting him recently in Bayelsa. Pamilerin made the accusations via his Twitter account, accompanied by a photo of his face showing a slightly reddened eye, saying he was slapped by Peruzzi’s after he was accosted. His words: After the event it... Read More

Pamilerin Adegoke, Peruzzi

Beyoncé’s voice teased as Nala in The Lion King, Jessica Jones, Ad Astra – Here’s your movie trailer roundup

Apropos of nothing, we are constantly inundated with the new movie trailers. OK, this is personal. At the moment, I have Netflix fatigue so I’m self-recommending a much-needed detox. That said, we have new trailers releases during the week, some of them you might have missed. And because we are so nice at YNaija, here’s... Read More

Culture, Featured, The Film Blog

Ad Astra, Jessica Jones, movie trailer round up, Nala, The Lion King

Dorcas Shola Fapson’s adaptation of ”I Got Flowers Today” will move you, but it doesn’t hold men accountable for domestic violence

Dorcas Shola Fapson will probably won’t make it in the list of in-demand actresses. And, admit it, many of you didn’t know who she was until her 2018 Taxify saga, wherein she recorded herself accusing a Taxify driver for trying to kidnap and rape her, all of which morbidly excited the internet. Now Shola Fapson... Read More

Culture, Featured

Domestic violence, Dorcas Shola Fapson, I Got Flowers Today

We now have a premiere date for #BBNaija season four coming this June!

At a point, it seemed as though that Big Brother Naija won’t return this year. Then we got news that it had been pushed back because of election season, and there was the Double Wahala reunion show that generated a decent amount of buzz and prepared the atmosphere for the show’s fourth installment. View... Read More

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This campaign video of South African women singing against domestic violence surfaced on the internet – and we love it

It’s common knowledge that South Africa has a disturbingly high rate of domestic violence where women are disproportionately the victims. Put another way, one in two South African women are victims of abuse. It’s so bad that domestic violence is one of the things I associate with South Africa, so it was an incredible feeling... Read More

Asambe Nono, Carling Black Label, Domestic violence in South Africa, No excuse, South African women

Rambo: Last Blood, Jessica Jones season 3, The Goldfinch – Here are the movie trailers you might have missed during the week

It was a whirlwind of movie trailers during the week. Case in point: Pixar’s new animation film Onward, which imagines Chris Pratt and Tom Holland as elf brothers. A new horror feature from A24 about a killer dress – In Fabric. And The Kitchen, a crime thriller film starring Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elizabeth... Read More

Culture, Featured, The Film Blog

In Fabric, Jessica Jones season 3, nollywood, Onward, Rambo: Last Blood, The Goldfinch

Here’s why people are still talking about this age-defying photo of Genevieve Nnaji and her Nollywood colleagues

Genevieve Nnaji’s belated celebrations for her 40th birthday last week would be remembered for one viral photo – a reunion of actresses like Omotola Jalade- Ekeinde, Stephanie Okereke Linus, Ini Edo, Rita Dominic and Uche Jumbo – creating a nostalgia-inducing portrait of their younger, amateurish selves in Nollywood. Cheap wigs, braids, thin eyebrows, small purses,... Read More

Genevieve Nnaji, Ini Edo, omotola jalade ekeinde, rita dominic, Stephanie Linus, Uche Jombo

Read Chimamanda Adichie’s elegantly moving tribute to Binyavanga Wainaina and cry with us

Frankly, I have been on the look out for Chimamanda Adichie‘s reaction to the passing away of late Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina, who died last week. Many people are still coming to terms that Wainaina is no more, and the worse feeling is knowing that he’s irreplaceable. Today on Instagram, Adichie wrote an elegantly moving... Read More

Binyavanga Wainaina, Chimamanda Adichie, elegantly moving tribute

Aki and Pawpaw have been rejuvenated as memes on Twitter and we absolutely love it

Something I have noticed on Twitter lately: the re-entry of actors Osita Iheme and Chinedu Ikedieze into the online meme factory. The erstwhile comedic duo have warmed their way back into our hearts on Twitter, their presence drawn from old Nollywood movies wherein they flourished under the Aki and Pawpaw moniker. It’s almost as if... Read More

Culture, Featured

Aki and Pawpaw, Chinedu Ikedieze, memes, Old Nolywood movies, Osita Iheme

From Rema’s ‘Dumebi’ to the surprise drop of ‘Tradition’ by Runtown, here are the videos and trailers you might have missed during the week

Here are the biggest stories you may have missed in entertainment during the week and others that unraveled while you slept – and are still buzzing today. Paramount Pictures release teaser trailer for ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Look, the teaser trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate may have some questionable CGI but Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor... Read More

Culture, Featured

Dumebi, Rema, Runtown, tradition

OluTimehin Adegbeye has emerged winner of the 2019 Gerald Kraak Prize and we are over the moon

We are excited that this year’s Gerlad Kraak Prize has gone to OluTimehin Adegbeye, for her nonfiction piece Mothers and Men. The announcement was made on Thursday at the Gerald Kraak Prize ceremony in Johannesburg, and the judges describe’s Adegbeye’s winning piece as “a sensitive memoir casting new light on questions of rape, secondary victimisation... Read More

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Elnathan John drags Reno Omokri to hellfire and back over insensitive comments on late Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina

The unexpected death of Kenyan writer, LGBTQ activist and literary trailblazer Binyavanga Wainaina has given social media a lot to talk about since Wednesday. Tributes have mostly poured in from the literary and LGBTQ communities, but there have also been disgusting and unwarranted comments from people who have used Wainaina’s death to propagate their homophobia.... Read More

elnathan john, Reno Omokri

We are excited that Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel “Freshwater” is set to be adapted into a TV series

Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel Freshwater was one of the highly anticipated novels of 2018 and, as soon as it was released, it garnered glowing reviews from critics who have described it as dark, unsettling, heartwrenching and powerful. Exploring the surreal experience of having a fractured self, it centers around a young woman Ada, a Nigerian... Read More

Akwaeke Emezi, Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel “Freshwater'' is set to be adapted into a TV series, Fresh water

Tara, Raliat

Raliat Abe of House of Tara was just announced the Nigerian Employee of the Year

The TAMS Summit recently rebranded as the Nigerian Employee of the Year awards, and exists to celebrate the work, innovation and dedication of Nigerian employees to their organizations. In a country where employees are mistreated and the general work environment is hardly conducive for excellence, employees who manage not only to excel but to also... Read More

Nnedi Okorafor wants us to destroy the ”light female, dark male” trope that has pervaded books and movies

The ”light female, dark male” trope is so entrenched in popular culture that it’s hard to ignore it. From cartoons and comics to books and movies, female animals, aliens, monsters and fantastical/mythical creatures tend to have lighter fur, feathers, skin or scale on their bodies than male animals, aliens, and mythical creatures. This is not... Read More

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Daydream Esoterica

Daydream Esoterica is Victor Ehikhamenor’s homecoming and an homage to Lagos

If there is one principle that has consistently defined Victor Ehikhamenor’s art practice, it is the idea that the art he creates (and all art) is autonomous. Art is sentient and chooses its vessel,; the medium in which it is expressed, the time and place where it decides to exist. True art cannot be rushed... Read More

Culture, Editor's Pick

Daydream Esoterica, Johnny Walker, Johnny Walker 18, Victor Ehikhamenor

Now that ‘Game of Thrones’ is over, here are three reasons you should read Marlon James’ African fantasy novel, ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’

After eight long years and a six-episode season, Game of Thrones came to an end on Sunday night. Daenerys dies by Jon’s hand, Arya sails west of Westoros, Sansa becomes Queen of the North and a character arc that blindsided many viewers: Bran Stark becoming the King of the Seven Kingdoms. There have been widespread... Read More

Black Leopard, Game of Thrones, Marlon James, Michael B. Jordan, Red Wolf, Warner Bros.

We love Folake Olowofoyeku in the trailer for ‘Bob Hearts Abishola,’ but good God what was that accent?

The trailer for the upcoming CBS comedy Bob Hearts Abishola was out on Thursday and, judging by the reactions from Nigerians on Twitter, it was polarising. According to CBS, Bob Hearts Abishola is a love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while... Read More

Billy Gardell, Bobs Hearts Abishola, CBS new comedy, Chuck Lorre, Folake Olowofoyeku

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