12+ hour, 35+ min ago  (775+ words) Never Thought I Could (Part 1) sees Lloyiso evolving from a remarkable singer into a more complete artistic voice. After parting ways with the label, Lloyiso entered a new chapter in 2021 when he signed with Universal Music Group South Africa and…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (180+ words) By Afrocritik's Editorial Board Afrocritik, the continent's leading platform for African culture criticism and commentary, has released The Afrocritik Report 2025. The essay-driven report brings together a diverse team of critics, journalists, thinkers, and cultural analysts to examine the defining moments…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (737+ words) Okonta won the ANA Prize for Fiction for his debut collection of stories in 1998, received a doctorate in politics from Oxford University, and is a fellow of the Open Society Institute, New York. His first novel, The Termite Colony, "was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (569+ words) The strength of Riding the Storm lies in the affirming facts it shows us about our continent's capability to deal with disease emergencies, chief of which is sheer human willpower. Kan spent the early parts of Riding the Storm quickly…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (354+ words) As Editor-in-Chief, I have often asked a simple question while curating this project: after all the noise settles, what are the thinkers thinking?" Beneath the rush of releases, debates, breakthroughs, and disruptions lies a quieter question: what did this moment…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (354+ words) Mothers of Chibok tells an incredible story of dignity, resilience, and defiance, putting on display the remarkable strength and doggedness of the Chibok women in the face of terror. By Vivian Nneka Nwajiaku Back then, in 2014, we knew nothing about…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (1543+ words) The outrage over kissing is not the expression of ancient tradition. It is the performance of a relatively recent and heavily engineered consensus. Within hours, the comments were a battlefield. One of the actors was married. The discourse that followed…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (404+ words) The most immediate strength of the record lies in its instrumental direction. Leaning into an Afrobeats-influenced palette, the song is built on triplet percussion, bright rhythm guitars, and thumping kick drums that give it a lively, danceable pulse." Vocally, Min....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (277+ words) Jonathan Kariara became foundational not by speaking the loudest, but by enabling others, mentoring, editing, insisting on seriousness, and stepping back." There is post-independence urgency, which recruits him as a foundational Kenyan voice even when his poems resist the certainties…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (221+ words) How to save a drowning man Who will not clutch at goodwill straws At the 11th hour" To salvage the state of the nation When he dug the puddle himself Smothered his face in the sludge Father is a village drunk…...