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 […]
They began as young dreamers, armed with raw talent and pure passion for performance. Today, Rita Dominic, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, and Genevieve Nnaji are more than actresses. They are cultural icons whose names are forever etched in the story of Nollywood. Their careers mirror the evolution of an industry that grew from makeshift video productions into a global film powerhouse. […]
The Malala Fund has announced the appointment of Vanessa Kingori OBE, one of Britain’s most respected tech and media executives, to its global Board of Directors. Known for rewriting narratives at the highest levels of publishing and tech, Kingori brings a rare combination of commercial intelligence, cultural insight, and deep personal conviction to an organisation fighting for one of […]