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Movie Review: Alakada Reloaded, an elaborate hoax to collect money from Nigerians

A big screen answer to Jennifer Akindele’s Jenifa, Alakada reloaded is a meh attempt. The Falz-esque style of speaking, extreme lies and generic ‘grass to grace’ stories have been over told, much like Humblesmith singing Osinachi. Alakada Reloaded continues telling story of Yetunde Animashaun, a young girl from a poor family background from the earlier... Read More

Alakada Reloaded, movie review, nollywood, Toyin Abraham

Album Review: Skales’ The Never Say Never Guy album is an easily forgettable body of work

Raoul John Njeng-Njeng also known as Skales released a sophomore album with twenty tracks, a bit too much if you ask me. This album gets a C score at most with its best showings in the features. While Skales in his own right is not a horrible musician, he lacks a particular spark; this spark... Read More

album, collaboration, Davido, rotimi, Skales, The Never say Never Guy, Timaya

Movie Review: Slow Country, a mix of rowdiness and funny accents

Three hours of a good but not excellent movie. The truth is Slow Country isn’t a bad movie, it’s just not as good. While it gets marks for trying as a “Nigerian movie”, it’s still not in 2017 of movies. Maybe the 2002s of Action movies with weird looking effects and gunshots. Thirty-year-old Genevieve lookalike... Read More

Iviie Okujaye, movie review, nollywood, Sambasa Nzeribe, Slow Country

Twitter is trash: We know 4 things you won’t learn about feminism from TwitterNG

When Beyoncé released Flawless and featured Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2013, it was a small step for humanity but a big step for Nigerian music and literature. A simple excerpt from Chimamanda’s TED talk about teaching our girls to shrink themselves was heard by the great Beyoncé and her god status transferred to Chimamanda by... Read More

Beyoncé, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, feminism, takeaways, twitter.

Music Review: Lady Donli’s Ice Cream will definitely remain on your playlist

Lady Donli born Zainab Donli is a Nigerian musician from Kaduna moving to the world via the UK. Currently finishing up with a law degree from the University of Surrey. The latest addition to her body of work, Ice Cream features the smooth vocals of Tomi Thomas and is an ode to a destructive lover... Read More

ice cream, Lady Donli, music review, reviews, Tomi Thomas

Music Review: Mojeed’s Westernised West-African mixtape tells a beautiful story

Aristokrat records Mojeed is a rapper in the mould of vintage MI with a little bit of Vector and a little bit of Ycee in him. This carefully curated salad of intense American Nigerianness garnished with a beautiful voice and magical word flow created the second best EP/Mixtape of Nigerian rap; the best being M.I.’s... Read More

Mixtape, Mojeed, music review, Westernised West African

Book review: Lie to me, Dan: A tale of emotional adventure

by Adaugo Okoli If you would enjoy a refreshing romantic thriller steered by a pair of young adult protagonists, take your chances and settle in with Lie to Me, Dan. The novel is a contemporary romantic action-thriller written by Longrin Wetten. From the first page, he captures the reader’s attention with a wounded protagonist on... Read More

Book Review, Lie to me Dan, Longrin Wetten, Nigerian authors, Romance thrillers

Film review: Patience Ozokwor makes a spectacular return to form in Kunle Afolayan’s Omugwo

by Wilfred Okiche When the most influential filmmaker of a generation decides to join forces with the continent’s most important platform for small screen content to make a major feature film, it is hard not to feel apprehensive. And for good reason too. How do you marry two distinct thematic styles; one that has thrived... Read More

Reviews, Thinking Through

africa magic, Ayo Adesanya, Kunle Afolayan, omugwo, Patience Ozokwo, The Wedding Party

Movie Review: Much ado about Okafor’s Law

by Wilfred Okichie In 2016, eight Nollywood films were selected to participate in the Lagos City to City spotlight, a non-competitive program of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) that seeks to uncover new film vistas from around the world. With Green White Green’s Abba T. Makama choosing to pursue less traditional methods of screening... Read More

Being Mrs Elliot, Jude Idada, Okafor’s Law, Omoni Oboli

Album Review: Vector’s Lafiaji is overwhelming, and not always in a good way

by Wilfred Okichie For his third studio album and first since splitting with his former label, Young Shall Grow (YSG), Vector retreats within and traces his hustle back to his roots. Lafiaji, a popular suburb in the heart of Lagos Island, serves as home to the barracks in which the rapper spent his formative years... Read More

Adurah, Album review, Jesse Jagz, Lafiaji, TDB, Vector

Theatre review: Moremi is a tale as old as time

by Wilfred Okiche Park Theatre, the weekly theatre initiative at Freedom Park, Lagos played host to Crown Troupe of Africa for the month of March. On the weekend of 25th and 26th March, the proceedings coincided with the annual World Theatre Day festivities (27th March) and Crown Troupe staged a revival of one of its... Read More

Lagos Theatre Festival, Moremi, theatre

Film Review: American Driver moves in different directions, some of them funny

by Wilfred Okiche Moses Inwang’s latest film, American Driver isn’t a film per se, but a promotional reel of material shot along the sidelines of the Golden Icons Academy Awards (GIAMA) which is held in the United States of America. Which is not to say that American Driver isn’t funny. If you ignore the film’s... Read More

American Driver, Emma Nyra, GIAMA, Jim Iyke, Moses Inwang, nollywood

Film Review: Ojukokoro is what happens when a fan of the Coen brothers jumps off a plane without a parachute

by Chi Ibe There were about 14 of us at the cinemas to watch the new film, Ojukokoro yesterday. The 14 included my friend who I had dragged with me, because – as I told him – it had been highly recommended by two people I deeply respect, who know how excited I get about... Read More

Reviews, Thinking Through

Dare Olaitan, film, nollywood, Ojukokoro, seun ajayi, Somkele Idhalama, Tope Tedela, Wole Ojo

Album Review: Mr Eazi’s Accra to Lagos isn’t quite ready for take off

by Wilfred Okichie Tosin Ajibade, the artiste better known as Mr Eazi was the toast of the past year. He scored moderately successful singles,- by himself and as a guest artiste,- and appeared on a good number of the big albums released in 2016. Life was so good he even put together a Lagos concert... Read More

Business and Tilapia, Hollup, Leg Over, Maleek Berry and Del B, Masterkraft, Tosin Ajibade

Film Review: In Dare Olaitan’s Ojukokoro, greed is good

by Wilfred Okiche In the 1997 Hollywood film, Devil’s Advocate, Al Pacino, playing a human incarnation of Satan, mischievously named vanity as his favourite sin. For Dare Olaitan, writer and director of the offbeat black comedy/thriller, Ojukokoro, there is nothing quite as grand as greed. It isn’t just the title of his debut film,- Ojukokoro... Read More

Cover Stories, Reviews, Thinking Through

nollywood, Ojukokoro, Quentin Tarantino, seun ajayi, Somkele Idhalama, Tope Tedela, Zainab Balogun

Album Review: Shaydee’s Rhythm and Life makes for pleasantly safe listening

by Will Fred Rhythm and Life, the debut album by Shaydee, perhaps the most underrated artiste of his generation arrived like Shaydee himself, quietly and without the kind of hype that his label Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) would have reserved for former flagbearer Wizkid, or even CEO Banky W. Understandably too, for while the Starboy... Read More

Album review, everyday, Rhythm and Life, shaydee, Skales, wizkid

Film Review: Deep Fever is as bad as its title suggests

by Wilfred Okiche Never judge a film by its title. Or its trailer. Or its producers for that matter. All of these parameters could genuinely suck and the film could still end up blowing everything else out of the water. Deep Fever is as banal a title as one would expect for a film. Doesn’t... Read More

Reviews, Thinking Through

Bobby Michaels, Charles Uwagbai, deep fever, Femi Jacobs, Lagos Cougars, Mike Ezuruonye, Monalisa Chinda, nollywood

Theatre review: Beauty lives within the thrilling, imperfect world of Iwa L’ewa

by Will Fred For the week long first edition of the Lagos Contemporary Dance Festival, dancer/choreographer Quddus Onikeku and his Q Dance Centre ensemble brought a revival of the dance performance event Iwa L’ewa to the National Theatre, Iganmu on Saturday, 4th February. Iwa L’ewa has had a storied and somewhat controversial run since its... Read More

Iwa L’ewa, lagos, Q Dance Centre, Quddus Onikeku, theatre, Theatre in Lagos

February 26, 2017

Album review: Sound Sultan’s latest isn’t quite Out of the Box

by Wilfred Okiche Pop music’s longest serving General, not named 2face Idibia returned late 2016 with album number seven, a mash up of sounds and styles that does not quite live up to its ambitious title. In the course of his over 15 year old career,-a century by music’s here-today-gone-tomorrow standards,- the man who was... Read More

Reviews, Thinking Through

2baba, Flavour, Phyno, sound sultan, Tee-y mix

February 19, 2017

Album Review: Olamide has never been better than he is on The Glory

by Will Fred Another year, another Olamide album. And how we’ve come to love them. It is a testament to the YBNL boss’ considerable influence and unimpeachable street credibility that for the last five years, end of year celebrations cannot be considered complete until the Bariga boy sings. Or raps. Or does whatever it is... Read More

Afropop, Album review, Eyan Mayweather', Millie, Olamide, Pheelz, The Glory, Young John

February 18, 2017

Can we all take a minute to be proud of Adebayo Oke-Lawal and Orange Culture?

Adebayo Oke-Lawal is the menswear designer who ‘s responsible for the gender-blurring, and boundary-pushing aesthetic bombshell that we call Orange Culture. When he’s not designing quirky men’s clothing, he’s styling and directing other fashion houses’ visual campaigns. Today at the just ongoing London Fashion Scout which kicks off the London Fashion week, Adebayo Oke-Lawal showcased his A/W... Read More

A/W 17, adebayo oke lawal, London fashion week, Orangeculture

February 12, 2017

Album Review: Duncan Mighty participates actively on The Certificate

Duncan Mighty has earned the right to be called Port Harcourt’s first son. Indeed no other citizen- government official or private person,- has worked harder than him at bringing the essence of the garden city to mainstream consciousness. Thanks to hit songs like Port Harcourt Boy and benefactors like former Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, international jeweller... Read More

Album review, Duncan Mighty, Koliwater to Legacy, Kpaelele 4, Music, The Certificate

February 10, 2017

New music: Komostrings’ Around The World is full of prospects

You probably haven’t heard the name Komostrings except if for some reason, you’ve stumbled on his cover of Adekunle Gold’s debut single, Sade or you’ve seen some of his live acoustic sessions. Komostrings is a vocalist, songwriter and guitarist. It’s okay to describe him as an upcoming artiste as he’s released a number of singles... Read More

Featured, Reviews, Thinking Through

around the world, guitarist, komostrings, new music, review, Singer, vocals

February 5, 2017

Album Review: With Id Cabasa, 9ice fights back for creative relevancy

by Will Fred 9ice and Id Cabasa made sweet music in the past. Their union produced 9ice’s magnum opus, Gongo Aso as well as a couple of other essential records of both their careers. Then the inevitable happened, their union collapsed and they both went their separate ways. Both careers suffered instantly. 9ice has had... Read More

9ice, Album review, Asa, C.NN/G.RA. Gongo Aso, DJ Coublon, Folklore, ID Cabasa, Music, Nice, Nigerian Music, Young John

February 4, 2017

Movie review: Rita Dominic and Femi Jacobs reunite, but cannot save The Guest

by Wilfred Okiche The makers of The Guest, the sexy romantic thriller directed by Christian Olayinka, must have figured that Nollywood was due for some sizzle; something mysterious and exciting to shake the entire industry out of its comedy induced stupor and deliver some sick shocks at the same time. At this point, it is... Read More

Femi Jacobs, movie review, nollywood, review, rita dominic, Somkele Idhalama, somkele iyamah

January 29, 2017

Album review: Oritsefemi’s Corporate Miscreant is uninspiring

by Wilfred Okiche Oritsefemi has been working quite hard to retain relevance since enjoying a mid-career resurgence in 2013, thanks to his chart bursting Double Wahala single. Nothing he’s done since then has come close to capturing the wonder of that seminal Fela cover, but if that level of success has eluded Oritsefemi, it is... Read More

Reviews, Thinking Through

Album review, Corporate Miscreant, Music, nigeria, Oritsefemi, tracks, Wilfred Okiche

January 23, 2017

Music Review: Lynxxx is a blank slate on The album before the album

by Wilfred Okichie It may be hard to believe but Lynxxx (born Chukie Edozien) released his first album, This is Lynxxx six years ago, back in 2010. Since then, he’s had just enough hit singles, endorsement deals and high-profile appearances to keep him on the right side of relevant even when his proposed sophomore album... Read More

Characha, lynxxx, TABTA, The Album before the album, ynaija music review

January 14, 2017

Movie review: Three Wise Men is a hot, cluttered mess

by Wilfred Okiche The trailer seemed tacky. The premise, instantly unoriginal, and laughably desperate, spoke of one of the oldest tricks in comedy. Three pathetic old geezers, robbed of their hunger for the good time by the sobering realities of real life, embarking on one last hurrah. Mr Ibu would be gold in this. Perhaps... Read More

Cover Stories, Reviews, The Film Blog, Thinking Through

Ebele Okaro, Opa Williams, Patience Oghre, richard mofe damijo, three wise men, Victor Olaotan, Zachee Orji, Zack Orji

January 10, 2017

The YNaija Rankings: Every month, we will rank the top films, TV and radio stations in Nigeria

YNaija will, from Wednesday, January 11, release a monthly countdown of platforms leading and lagging in the Nigerian media space. The online matrix will rank the Top 20 TV channels, Top 20 Radio channels, Top 20 Online Media (Web), Top 10 Online Media (Social), and the Top 10 Film countdown. All countdowns will be graded... Read More

Reviews, The Film Blog, The Media Blog, Thinking Through

film, Media, nigeria, online, platforms, Radio, ranking, social, social media, Top10, top10ranking

January 8, 2017

Album review: Aramide’s Suitcase is packed full of goodies

by Wilfred Okiche Gifted vocalist, Aramide has been around for a spell now, since her runner-up finish at the 2006 edition of talent hunt show, Star Quest. She’s had a spell with eLDee’s Trybe records, before finding kin with Baseline records. Active on the underground scene for a long time, Aramide has gotten high-profile notices... Read More

Featured, Reviews, Thinking Through

Adekunle gold, album, Aramide, Ice Prince, Lauryn Hill, Music, review, sade adu, sticky, suitcase

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