'Nigeria's first fashion magazine'

Part promotion, part video profile of “Mania,” a new Nigerian magazine billed as a first of its genre for that country. Not sure about that. (There must have been and are fashion magazines in Nigeria?). Also not sure if the magazine is out yet. Great video though. The video is directed and edited by Joel Benson. (The publisher is photographer Kelechi Amadi-Obi.)

Further Reading

Writing while black

The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.

The Mogadishu analogy

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

Kwame Nkrumah today

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.