Cover Stories
How Adekunle Gold Met Tio Tequila
Credits Words by Emmanuel Esomnofu Photographer: Elliot Hensford Creative Director: Elliot Hensford Stylist: Kennedy Clarke Creative &...
How Davido got his voice back
Credits Words by Dennis Ade-Peter & Tami Makinde Photographer: Isabel Okoro Creative Director: Scary TownStylist:...
Zinoleesky’s Reign
Zinoleesky’s Reign Zinoleesky is the one most receptive to expanding the textural and sonic scope of Street Pop in today’s...
Asake’s Time
After a decade in the making, culminating in this year of his life, it’s time for the new King of Sounds & Blues. Ololade Asake has...
PROJECT RUNAWAY
Starring Ayra Starr, Lojay and NATIVE Sound Sytem With support from Sholz, Adey, Lido, New World Ray, Forevatired, Monster Boys, Dafe...
SOUNDS FROM THIS SIDE: STREET POP
Lagos, Nigeria – It looks like the paint is barely dry inside Bella Shmurda’s new luxury apartment in Ikota, GRA....
SOUNDS FROM THIS SIDE: AMAPIANO
The night before any lengthy road journey is filled with furious preparation. Principal amongst the priorities is making sure there is...
SOUNDS FROM THIS SIDE: ASAKAA DRILL
One thing’s for sure when you’re riding through Kumasi: you’re gonna hear some drill music. It reverberates through the city’s...
ADEBAYO OKE-LAWAL, THE WIND OF CHANGE
In recent years, music has been the face of the African cultural campaign. The focal point of Nigerian popular culture, music and the icons...
BLESSING EWONA, FEARLESS
For most of us, our lives have been typified by Western cultural hegemony. Where in global politics and economics, the Imperialist West...
UYAIEDU IKPE-ETIM vs NOLLYWOOD
Nollywood is a giant industry. Producing thousands of movies a year which end up being hugely economically profitable to Nigeria, in...
MICHAEL BRIGHT, THE DANCING QUEEN
Dancing is a lifeline for every African – even those who like me, can’t move for shit. Growing up around musical chairs and other such...
HOW TOBEAN OMOTOSO CAME TO EMBODY BEAUTY
Rarely will one encounter a depiction of African culture without music and movement instructing representations. Throughout our history,...
ELSA’S WORLD
Elsa Majimbo has been on go nonstop since the world catastrophically shut down last year. The almost 20-year-old’s life has been a...
DAMSON IDRIS, THE CONNECT
Damson Idris has spent the last half a decade playing roles that depict the harrowing realities of growing up as a young black boy, on both...
MADE IN LAGOS, SET FOR GLORY
I don’t remember exactly where I first heard Wizkid’s music. I doubt anybody who has followed his music from the very beginning...
JADA
Photographer: Faith Aylward (@didudietho) Styling: Laurie London (@lauriestyleslondon) Hair: Erica Castro (braidedbynicks) MUA: Ornella...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WIZKID BEING MADE IN LAGOS
To really appreciate what Wizkid’s journey means to Lagos, one must understand the dynamics of growing up in Surulere, where he was...
SUNDAY ARE
Photographer: Obehireme Binitie How did you come to be Wizkid’s manager? I’ve been Wizkid’s manager for about six years? Six or...
WIZKID FC IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF STAN CULTURE IN AFROPOP
Photographer – Mahaneela Choudhury-Reid (@mahaneela.jpg) Photo Assistant – Sarah Harry-Isaacs (@sarah.harryisaacs) Creative...
MEJI ALABI
Photographer: Adeoluwa Adeyemi (@ultranubian) Styling: Laurie London (@lauriestyleslondon) Hair: Anwar for Ivor’s Barbers BTS Video:...
FEELS LIKE HOME
Wizkid’s emergence at the turn of the decade undoubtedly reinvigorated the cultural esteem of the Nigerian diaspora worldwide. Those of...
EKENE MADUKA
Sincerely Yours, Lagos 2020 Oil, acrylics and image transfer on canvas 63.5 x 55.9 cm Ekene Maduka is an artist who makes work that...
P2J
Photographer: Seye Isikalu (@seyeisikalu) Production: Object & Animal (@objectanimal) Producer: Jess Ajose (@jess.ajose) Studio: PS...
HOW WIZKID’S MUSIC TRAVELLED, NO VISA
Wizkid’s first official public appearance musically was a feature on MI’s album, Talk About It, laying a stellar hook on “Fast...
LEGENDURY BEATZ
Photographer: Hannah Bamgbala (@bamgbala.studios) Styling: Laurie London (@lauriestyleslondon) Hair: Anwar for Ivor’s Barbers BTS...
KOBY MARTIN
Aro Meta 2020 Mixed media, acrylic, and oil pastels 100 x 100 cm Koby Martin is a proud export of Ghana. His talent and God-given gift was...
SARZ
Photographer: Seye Isikalu (@seyeisikalu) Production: Object & Animal (@objectanimal) Producer: Jess Ajose (@jess.ajose) Studio: PS...
LONDON
Photographer: Zash Chinhara (@zashcraft) Studio: The Durag Lair (craftedmediaguys) When did you meet Wizkid and what was that experience...
STARBOY STYLIN: WIZKID THROUGH THE ERAS
Photography: Mahaneela Choudhury-Reid (@mahaneela.jpg) Photography Assistant: Sarah Harry-Issacs (@sarah.harryissacs) Creative Direction:...
INSIDE LIFE
In 2018, Naira Marley embarked on a chaotic two-year run which included; court cases, police raids, a stint in prison,...
TEMS
At the start of 2018, a message from her daily devotional drove Tems to quit her day job as a digital marketer to pursue a...
MOWALOLA
Mowalola: I think I’m also quite curious about people. I get a lot of inspiration from just mixing and connecting with different...
TENI
TENI BROKE THE MOULD AND BEAT THE ODDS, NOW SHE’S JUST HAVING FUN WITH IT. Beside me is the most agitated fan in Lagos. It’s the...
ODUNSI THE ENGINE
NEXT ACT Bowo has always embraced the darkness. Ever since he was an early teen, Odunsi (his family name by which he is most commonly known...
Santi’s Rebellion
HOW ONE OF AFRICA’S MOST INNOVATIVE CONTEMPORARY MUSICIANS REINVENTED HIS WAY TO BECOMING A FORCE IN THE STRONGEST CULTURAL REBELLION IN...
Davido Vs. The World
David Adeleke, holding a glass of cognac in one hand and a Montecristo no.5 delicately balanced between the thumb and index finger of the...
Burna Reborn
THE BOY FROM PORT HARCOURT HAS ALWAYS BEEN PREORDAINED AS THE CHOSEN ONE. NOW, FIVE YEARS SINCE HIS FIRST SINGLE, HE IS READY FOR IT ALL...
