Michael Aromolaran

“Shayo no dey Heaven, so allow me make I chop life,” goes a line in Kowa, encapsulating the song’s hedonism. This call to pleasure and play is set to an equally playful beat bearing the markings of…

Akuchi’s No Games advocates for persevering in spite of opposition. It is produced by Oladimeji Obiremi, who sets it to a somber Trap beat, one Akuchi matches with rap verses, his tone alternating …

Can a crime be justified if it is done to save a loved one’s life, especially when the victim is a bonafide ass-wipe? What happens when a poor, dysfunctional family must grapple with a terminal, ex…

Nollywood’s work rate has tremendously improved in the past two to three years. Stories like Kemi Adetiba’s King of Boys, Editi Effiong’s The Black Book, Eku Edewor’s Breath of Life, and Reuben J R…

Worship SZN is appropriate for the meditative mood Greatman Takit wants to conjure.

Two teens begin a friendship made unlikely by their different socioeconomic stations—one lives in the plush Lagos Island, the other in the less glamorous Lagos Mainland. Touring the city’s scruffy …

When Queen Drie was 4, her parents split, leaving her mother with the sole, backbreaking job of raising her and her elder brother. Such were the financial straits they endured that the children som…

Comedian Brain Jotter, for laughs, uploaded a video to the internet, and in doing so revived a forgotten old Highlife song by Mike Ejeagha.

“Afamefuna: An Nwa Boi Story,” Kayode Kasum’s celebratory take on an Igbo apprenticeship system, is perhaps too much in awe of its subject.

“Anikulapo: Rise of the Spectre,” Kunle Afolayan’s follow-up to his 2022 historical epic, flounders in striving for a vast scope.