Louder in Lagos
Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Lagos. Listen here and on Worldwide FM.
Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Lagos. Listen here and on Worldwide FM.
Lateef K. Jakande, also known as Baba Kekere, was the first civilian governor of Nigeria’s Lagos State.
For Nigeria, the World Bank reported that as of 2015, 48% of the total population (estimated at more than 180 million) reside in urban centers.
What would an alternative visual vocabulary through which to comprehend Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, look like?
It is rare in much of Africa to see a festival line-up of both established and up and coming artists performing with a full band.
Beauty, stillness, and connection in Lagos, Nigeria.
The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, 'Lagoon.'
In February of 2013, I made a hurried decision to head to Lagos, in an attempt
The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.
Who has the right to speak about the late Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Kuti, and how is that right earned? Also, what do you exclude? What do you include?
A short documentary film on the Lagos, Nigeria, performance artist Jelili Atiku.
Kenneth Gyang's "Confusion Na Wa" and the growing desire for variety and novelty in Nigerian cinema.
The theater, built by the military and finished in time for FESTAC in 1977, has always been a site of public disagreement.
For our series interviewing the new generation of African creatives, we sent questions to designer. Olalekan Jeyifous. We asked him for his five favorite designs.
A post that takes a warm, nostalgic trip through an aspect of West Africa's rich musical heritage: Nigerian highlife.
The Lagos elite blows money at puffery, while most of Nigeria suffers. It’s the same as it ever was.
Number 11 in our series where we ask photographers about their 5 favorite photographs; how and where the images were made.
The use of black and African pride by Western fast food chains to appeal to African-Americans in the United States.
For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.
The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.