Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Easily Nigeria’s most influential contemporary writer, the author of Half of A Yellow Sun and The Thing Around Your Neck reveals an impatience with modesty What is your favourite virtue? Honesty What are your favourite qualities in a man? Kindness What are your favourite qualities in a woman? Strength What would you... Read More

Sarah and Shola, two identical twin sisters, each got a chocolate cake for their birthday on the 23rd of July. Sarah, being a spontaneous, self-confessed chocolate junkie, dug in with gusto, cramming chunks of chocolate cake into her mouth with both hands. Halfway through, she remembered that she would have loved to share the cake... Read More

Kicker:  Singer Waje, radio presenters Tosyn Bucknor and Phoenix, actor Lala Akindoju and marketing professional Lola Talabi have a no-holds-barred conversation on humble beginnings, marriage and staying the long haul with a man. Pullquote: I mean (chuckling) I’m not going to live in the dark without being able to afford… even if it’s an I-better-pass-my-neighbour... Read More

Fi’ ammari Machar Zoaka, a graduate of Covenant University, has taken the next general elections as his life’s work.  But for this engineering graduate, it goes beyond 2011: he and his friends are determined to use social culture to cause social–change. He speaks about BLING, Cool2Vote and others. By Kenneth Oliko What is BLING? Is made... Read More

“So how will you make sure this survives?” She asked as we laid out our plans to change the world. We were three wide-eyed-but-relentless teenagers intent on doing the impossible: Organise Nigeria’s biggest pan-sector youth awards, when we didn’t have a kobo (almost literally) in the bank. We had taken our proposal to sponsors endlessly... Read More