Meet Baddo’s new alter ego: Alagemo Merindinlogun, the visual-art identity behind his latest creative experiment Olamide has spent more than a decade turning Yoruba language, street culture and Nigerian life into music that travels. Now, the YBNL founder is moving into another form of expression: the canvas. The rapper has unveiled Alagemo Merindinlogun by Olamide, a new visual-art identity […]
. 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 […]
Some arrive early. Some need time. Some peak late. And a rare few seem to have several primes. There is a tendency to talk about sporting careers as though they follow a predictable timetable. A young player breaks through, improves through his early twenties, reaches his prime somewhere around his mid-to-late twenties, then gradually declines as age catches up […]
So, in a now-viral video, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group Chairman was seen addressing his employees when a graduate trainee of the UBA Banking School stood up to ask a question, referring to him as “Tony.” Tony Elumelu stopped her. It took only a few seconds, but those seconds have opened up a much bigger conversation about how […]