Bisi Silva, the celebrated curator and founder of Lagos’s Centre for Contemporary Art passed away…
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Oliver Mtukudzi – Singer and guitarist who was the heartbeat of Zimbabwean music
On the 23 January, Oliver Mtukudzi, the great Zimbabwean musician whose brand of popular music…
The Favourite: “a refreshingly irreverent take on British period drama”
The long-suffering valiant queen is the typical image of British queens in cinema; so the…
Lionheart Review: Genevieve Nnaji plays it Safe in Netflix Debut
A few years ago I interviewed Genevieve Nnaji for the Africa Report. One of the…
Review: Divinations of worlds to come (works by Caribbean artists Hervé Beuze & David Gumbs)
Showing in the intimate South London gallery, The Agency, which houses both a gallery…
Whose music moved Lagos the most in 2018? Burna Boy’s
Dance is an integral part of cities, like Lagos, which is in constant motion. The…
Why Tiffany Jenkins is wrong – and museum loot should be returned
There seems to be a slow movement towards restitution of artefacts to the societies in…
Poverty Die: The unusual genius of the Olamide Chorus
One of the few unpopular Olamide songs has quite the uncanny chorus. I refer to…
World AIDS Day: Three decades of loving militance
It is 30 years since World AIDS Day was first commemorated, propelled by a global…
Michaela Coel mines Rwanda’s pained history of global exploitation
Black Earth Rising kept me hooked from week to week as it delved into a…