Social Media Banter, Jollof Rice and Other AFCON Delicacies
According to one urban legend, any party without Jollof Rice is just a meeting, but on social media, it matters significantly whether that Jollof is of Nigerian or Ghanaian origins. It certainly does for some AFCON supporters at this year’s tournament whose vociferous performance of AFCON fandom has been a little more intense than in…
Brymo, Roland Barthes, and the Nigerian Author That is Not Dead
As of the second week of November in 2023, there was only one YouTube comment on a talk, “Brymo, Cultural Neo Traditionalism and Postcolonial Aesthetics” given by the Nigerian scholar Adeshina Afolayan. Posted on Emory Institute of African Studies’ official YouTube page, this comment illustrates the unrelenting thoughtlessness with which social media is used around…
Game on, Nollywood! On Aki and Pawpaw Epic Run
Aki and Pawpaw’s epic run in the first Nollywood-inspired game expands the scope of African popular culture and its convergence with digital media.
Existential Blues
Sometimes I’m convinced that life is a cracked cistern in which we pour passions and an endless tale of toils as a motion that vanishes into a profound nothingness. Like a tangled pocket with a hole, it is the abyss of our most sculpted shadows, the abode of the emptiness that haunts the soul. A…
Loading…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.
James Yékú 