Africa

Benin City in modern-day Nigeria was once the capital of a bustling kingdom which left a magnificent artistic legacy of plaques and sculpture in cast bronze which were looted by …

Hi everyone. The first thing you’ll notice about this newsletter is that I’m not Nesrine. But don’t worry, we don’t need her to have a good time. I’m Jason, the …

Untitled, 1988 Produced during a career of only six years, Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s photographs are a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain. Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire …

Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. I am writing to you fully refreshed following a whole two hours’ sleep after watching the US election. This week, as one Black …

When I was a little girl in my village in Nigeria going to school was something I could not even dream of because we did not have money. Then my …

A fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria caused the deaths of more than 140 people and injured 50 more, according to local police. Footage circulating on social media and verified …

More than 140 people have died in an explosion while rushing to scoop up fuel from a crashed tanker in north-west Nigeria, in one of the country’s worst such incidents …

Nigeria’s ‘twins capital of the world’ Igbo-Ora holds its annual festival to celebrate the town’s unusually high incidence of multiple births

In early August 2022, Biyi Bándélé had a conversation with his editor, Hannah Chukwu, about the novel he was working on, Yorùbá Boy Running, after which he sent her a …