Obit: Pius Adesanmi, Scholar, Writer, Activist, dead in Ethiopian Airlines disaster – Tola Adenle

    Professor Adesanmi [Credit: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]   As Professor Pius Adesanmi, scholar, writer, activist is being mourned on multiple continents, especially in Nigerian – country of his birth – and Canada, his adopted homeland, those of us who knew him only through his many writings/contributions to political discourse in Nigeria do feel a […]

Obit: Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, lady with the velvety, soaring voice, dies at 76 – Tola Adenle

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Nigeria: Val Day 1975 saw ‘King’ Sunny Ade (KSA) freed from Abiorò’s bondage by Gani Fawehinmi in crowded Lagos courtroom drama – oldnaija.com

  THE VERY EARLY HAPPY TIMES:  Bolarinwa Abíorò & Sunday Adeniyi in a 1960s photograph in Europe. Adeniyi, who first took the stage name ‘Sunny Ade’, and later, ‘King Sunny Ade’ (KSA), was massively cheated and taken advantage of by Abioro, but would later fight back with the aid of late human rights fighter, Lawyer […]

Kẹhìndé Wiley, artist behind Obama’s presidential portrait – ajc.com

  Dan Zak ✔@MrDanZak The official portraits. Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley. Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald. 4:41 PM – Feb 12, 2018 19.9K 8,594 people are talking about this   Kẹhìndé Wiley is from Los Angeles. Wiley was born in 1977 in south central Los Angeles to a Nigerian father and African-American mother, but […]

Nigerian Skaters & Surfers Turning Lagos’s Tarkwa Bay Into a Style Paradise – vogue.com/Chioma Nnadi

A New Crew of Nigerian Skaters and Surfers Is Turning Lagos’s Tarkwa Bay Into a Style Paradise – Chioma Nnadi for vogue.com   Surfer Godpower Pekipuma wears Wafflesncream top and pants on Tarkwa Bay in Lagos, Nigeria.Photo: Baingor Joner   Tarkwa Bay is to Lagos what Rockaway Beach is to New York City. A 15-minute water […]

Nigeria: Global aspirations of Bakare-Yusuf’s Cassava Republic imprint represent a significant new landmark for African literature – New York Times

A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres – Alexandra Alter/New York Times Ms. Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, a Nigerian publisher who is expanding her imprint to the United States. Credit: Lauren Joy Fleishman for The New York  Times. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim was bracing for a backlash when he published his provocative debut novel, […]

Ankara Styles You’ll Love

Originally posted on The Omawumi:
ANKARA STYLES; AFRICA TO THE WORLD The year is already coming to an end! Most of us want to slay and step into 2018 in class and style. What’s more stylish than ankara? Whether you’re going to the beach, a wedding, church, or just to hang with your friends! I’ll…

Critics pooh-pooh “too white” mixed-race Adwoah Aboah on her first British Vogue cover

Is the new black still too white, ask critics of Vogue’s ‘washout’ cover of Adwoa Aboah? – James Gillespie, Mary O’Connor & Iram Ramzan/London Times     Adwoa Aboah at Paris fashion week and as she appears on the cover of Vogue [PASCAL LE SEGRETAIN]   The model Adwoa Aboah is known in the fashion world for her mixed-race […]

Melania Trump is [a bit] racist and Michelle Obama-obsessed in a Chimamanda Adichie’s fictional short story

Janelle Asked to the Bedroom – A Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story for The New York Times   Melania Trump is apparently lonely, obsessed with Michelle Obama and a bit racist — at least that’s the story according to acclaimed writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In a new short story commissioned for and by The New York Times Book Review, Adichie […]

The Weinstein Scandal: “Harvey led me into a bedroom — his bedroom” – Lupita Nyong’o

Oscar Award-winning actress, Kenyan Lupita Nyong’o [Google Images] Ihave been following the news and reading the accounts of women coming forward to talk about being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein and others. I had shelved my experience with Harvey far in the recesses of my mind, joining in the conspiracy of silence that has allowed this […]