Lagos has seen international stars arrive with spectacular production, elaborate stagecraft and promises of unforgettable nights. But when Dave brought his The Boy Who Played the Harp tour to the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts on 16 and 17 October, the significance ran deeper than another name on the concert calendar. These were the British-Nigerian rapper’s […]
A good business idea can be dangerously persuasive. You imagine the customers, calculate the money it could make, picture the brand taking off and begin spending before anyone has demonstrated that the business deserves to exist. The logo comes first, then the website, equipment, packaging, rent and perhaps a loan. Months later, the uncomfortable question arrives: what if people […]
Imagine two people with access to the same AI tools. Both can generate business plans, analyse documents, produce presentations and learn unfamiliar subjects in a fraction of the time it once took. One spends the day experimenting with prompts, collecting information and discussing possibilities. The other identifies a problem, speaks to the people affected by it, tests a solution […]
There is a new kind of intellectual laziness spreading quietly, and it does not look like laziness. It looks productive. It arrives with polished sentences, instant summaries, neatly organised ideas and answers delivered before you have finished forming the question. Artificial intelligence has made it possible to move through large parts of modern life without doing much of the […]
The Shirt, the Tears, the World Cup From 47 Seconds to Forever There are football careers that read like fairy tales. Lionel Messi’s Argentina career never did. It read more like a long, bruising argument between genius and expectation, between a player who could seemingly do anything with a football and a country that wanted him to prove that […]
Nigeria is back in the Oscar conversation, and this time the film carrying the country’s hopes is a quiet family drama rather than a spectacle built for easy headlines. Damilola Orimogunje’s Dear Ajayi has been selected as Nigeria’s official submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards, putting the Nigeria-Germany co-production on the road […]
Before a photograph, before a passport, before a written record could tell the world who someone was, hair could do part of the work. Across Africa, the head has long been treated as a place where identity could be arranged, displayed and recognised. A hairstyle could speak about age, status, gender, marriage, community or occasion without a single word […]
Don Jazzy has spent more than two decades making music, but his most consequential work may have happened away from the microphone. The hits made him famous. The businesses made him formidable. Somewhere between the producer behind Mo’ Hits, the founder of Mavin Records and the executive who helped build careers for some of Africa’s biggest contemporary stars, Michael […]
A house is easy to understand. A city is a different proposition. It requires a longer imagination, more capital, more patience and an acceptance that the thing being built may outlive the person who conceived it. That distinction goes a long way towards explaining Mustapha “TAF” Njie, the Gambian entrepreneur whose name has become closely associated with large-scale housing […]
The 400 metres gives an athlete very little room to hide. It asks for speed without recklessness, strength without stiffness and enough intelligence to know exactly when the race begins to hurt. Collen Kebinatshipi has spent 2026 answering those questions with increasing authority. The 22-year-old Botswana star has not lost a 400m race all year, turning what began as […]
