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 […]
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 […]
. Who Says It’s Too Late? . African Business Builders & The Long Game . —- . At 25, Aliko Dangote was not the man whose name would eventually become synonymous with African industry. There was no $20-billion refinery project, no sprawling conglomerate stretching across the continent, no global billionaire ranking attached to his name. There was simply a […]
Long before the Adeleke name became familiar across Afrobeats, Nigerian politics and contemporary business, there was Chief Raji Ayoola Adeleke, a man whose own life had already crossed medicine, organised labour, community leadership and national politics. Born in Ede on 27 December 1923, he came from a family with deep roots in the town. His mother, Madam Adeboyin of […]
Taiwo Awoniyi has added another qualification to a football career that is still being written on the pitch. The Nigeria and Coventry City striker has graduated from the PFA Business School with a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Football Sport Directorship, earning the qualification with Merit. Awoniyi announced the achievement on Tuesday, sharing his graduation as a significant moment away […]
Some actors appear in films. Others become part of the memory of the people watching them. Olu Jacobs belonged to the second group. For generations of Nigerians and African audiences, his face could signal authority before he had said a word, his voice could turn an ordinary line into something weightier, and his presence could change the temperature of […]
Thirty years after Reasonable Doubt introduced Shawn Carter to the world as Jay-Z, the rapper stood beneath the lights of the Stade de France with something few artists can convincingly claim: a catalogue that has become part of the architecture of popular culture. On September 10, 2026, Jay-Z brought his JAŸ-Z 30 celebration to Paris for a two-hour performance […]
Before astronauts became household names and before computers could calculate a trajectory in seconds, there were mathematicians whose work had to be precise enough to bring a spacecraft home. Katherine Johnson was one of them. Born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, she grew up with an extraordinary instinct for numbers and became one of […]
For more than four decades, Angélique Kidjo has carried the sounds of Benin into rooms, stages and audiences far beyond the continent. On 18 August 2026, that journey found a permanent address on Hollywood Boulevard as the five-time Grammy winner became the first African musician, and the first Black African artist, to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk […]