A 21-year-old internet sensation, a former American president and his wife, and a 93-year-old Ghanaian cinematographer might seem like an unlikely team. Yet their paths have converged around a story that deserves far more than a passing moment on social media. Darren Watkins Jr., known globally as IShowSpeed, has joined The Eyes of Ghana as a producer, working alongside […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]