DARK SECRETS: 7 - The Real Truth

‘It is always a pleasure to surprise’: inside Lagos-based high-jewellery house Akano Diamonds

Akunna Nwala-Akano, founder of Akano Diamonds, fills us in on the creative process behind her brand

Wallpaper · Sep 4, 2024

'Every day there is less to lose' – Enric Mas and Mikel Landa take race to Primož Roglič at Vuelta a España

No reward for Spanish aggression at Lagos de Covadonga but home hopes still flicker

Cycling News · Sep 3, 2024

Choreographer Qudus Onikeku: ‘I want to mirror the real world – vibrant, chaotic, problematic’

As a child in Lagos, he felt like Billy Elliot, following a passion for dance despite his family’s disapproval. Now, having found success in France, he’s returned to his native Nigeria to mastermind a pan-African creative awakening

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

Hundreds protest across Nigeria over soaring cost of living, fuel prices

Demonstrators voice discontent over government reforms they say have triggered high inflation and devalued the currency.

Al Jazeera · Aug 1, 2024

Onyeka Onwenu death: Nigerian ‘national treasure’ singer, actor and activist dies aged 72

Musician died from a heart attack after performing at a private party in Lagos

The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2024

Nigerian singer, actor and activist Onyeka Onwenu dies aged 72

Nicknamed the ‘Elegant Stallion’, the revered star died after performing at a private party in Lagos

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2024

Tejumola Adenuga contemplates the future of creativity in Nigeria

Inside Tejumola Adenuga’s solo exhibition, ‘FUTURE, PAST', at Art Twenty One in Lagos

Wallpaper · Jul 9, 2024

Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi review – a wild weekend in New Lagos

Dirty secrets abound in a feverish novel exposing the seedy underbelly of a Nigerian city

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2024

The Road to the Country: novelist Chigozie Obioma on Nigeria’s brutal civil war, love and redemption

Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric tales of Nigerian life in decades past. Like them, his 2024 novel The Road to the Country is “tinged with fable and…

The Conversation · Jul 2, 2024

‘Our first sexual encounter was a mess. We were so anxious, neither of us could get an erection’: This is how we do it in Nigeria

In Nigeria, where homosexuality is illegal, Chibuzo and Ekele reveal the risks of some very dangerous liaisons

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2024