I devoted my weekend to devouring Aremo Olusegun Osoba’s autobiography, Battlelines – Adventures In Journalism And Politics. And without any apology, I want to confess that I thoroughly relished and enjoyed it. I also would like to recommend it to…
Lagos Book & Art Festival, (LABAF) set for November 4-10, 2019
The 21st edition of the Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF) will take place from November 4-10, 2019 at Freedom Park, Lagos Island and other venues around the city. LABAF which has been described as ‘Africa’s biggest cultural picnic, is week-long…
6 reasons not to miss Lights Camera Africa!!! film festival 2019
Every year, for the past eight years, the Lights Camera Africa!!! film festival has gathered the cream of Lagos’ discerning cultural consumers on a three day film binge. And in those years they have been exposed to award winning, critically…
Who the f*ck is CKay? (Revisited) – Dami Ajayi
Those with retentive memory may remember the controversial and heated episode of Pulse’s flagship podcast, Loose Talk, where MI and Loose Kaynon came to clear the air about certain concerns with the three hosts of the show. Within a spirited…
Yemi Alade returns with magic on “Woman of Steel” – Dami Ajayi
Fresh off Beyonce’s companion CD; “The Lion King: The Gift”, Yemi Alade has pulled out a fourth LP album almost effortlessly from her back pocket. Easily the hardest working female Nigerian pop singer, Ms. Alade’s devotion to her discography has…
Is Qdot king of the Mainland? – Dami Ajayi
There is a fair chance that you may not have heard the name Fakoya Qudus Oluwadamilare, but if you haven’t heard the name Qdot Alagbe, or any of his songs, then you are wrong. Qdot came into prominence about six…
Wetin Victor AD gain with “Red Eye?” – Dami Ajayi
Victor AD was one of our original discoveries last year, alongside Teni The Entertainer. The apt description would be to call them the Ying and Yang rising stars of 2018. Fast forward to 2019 and things didn’t quite follow the…
Does Biodun Fatoyinbo know the meaning of shame? – NFNF
The dictionary defines shame as – noun “a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour.” Often seen as a word it can also refer to a sense of being, a cognition as…
All Hail Lady Donli, Queen of Naija Alté – Dami Ajayi
Lady Donli has become the name everyone wants to drop in the Alté scene. Alternative used to be the opposite of mainstream but that was until a squad of new-school bourgeois cats with international exposure and swag came by. They…
Toni Morrison re-defined and enriched the world of literature – Toni Kan
Every death diminishes us but some more than most. Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford departed this mortal coil into the realm of the ancestors on August 5, 2019. Nobel laureate and critically acclaimed author of over 10 novels, Ms.…