Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Meet The Doctor Who Has Built a Talent Incubator, a Streetwear Line, and Greencamp Festival
Dr. Babajide “Molo” Olanrewaju trained as a doctor. He also runs Greencamp, the non-profit talent incubator now heading into its tenth annual festival; styles artists under an Afrocentric streetwear lens; promotes events; and works as a data scientist, a discipline he says has sharpened how he reads the Nigerian entertainment industry from the inside. Raised…
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5 TYPES OF PEOPLE YOU’LL DEFINITELY SEE AT SANTAN DAVE’S CONCERT IN LAGOS
It’ll be the first-ever headline appearance in Nigeria for Santan Dave this October 16 and 17, when he takes to the 4,000-capacity Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts (formerly National Theatre) in Lagos for the Nigerian leg of The Boy Who Played the Harp tour. The two-night stop will also bring the global…
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What the Timeline Got Wrong About Pap Smears
You’ve probably seen the pap smear conversation that took over Nigerian Twitter this month, which was split down predictable lines. One side traded stories about painful, dismissive appointments. The other side wondered why a routine screening test was being treated like an ordeal. Both sides were talking past each other, so we went straight to…
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Early Nigerian Rock Bands You Must Listen To
Long before Afrobeats became Nigeria’s biggest musical export, electric guitars, fuzz pedals and psychedelic grooves were already moving the country people on the dance floors. When people talk about Nigerian music history, the conversation usually moves through highlife, juju, Afrobeat and, eventually, Afrobeats. Rock rarely gets the same attention. But in the late 1960s and…
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Spotify brings fans closer to Tems and Runtown at Surround Sound in Lagos
Spotify brought fans closer to Tems and Runtown across two nights of Surround Sound in Lagos, inviting selected Premium listeners based on their listening behaviour to experience the artists and music they care about in an intimate, in-the-round setting. Held at Livespot in Lagos on 25 and 26 September, the performances brought two distinct catalogue…
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How Coca-Cola and Johnny Drille Made a 75th Anniversary Anthem You’ll Actually Replay
It starts before the music even starts. You hear a crowd (people talking, laughing, the kind of noise you get at a family party). Then a bottle clinks. Only after that do the words come in: Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola. That opening tells you everything about what this anthem, released to mark Coca-Cola Nigeria’s 75th anniversary, is…
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Blulyt’s “Want It All” Video Tells a Story of Ambition Paying Off
There’s a moment on Shades of Blu where Blulyt sings “I’m looking up, you know where I’m from, that’s why I cannot stop,” and it always felt like the emotional center of the whole project, the line where gratitude and hunger sit in the same breath. The video for “Want It All” takes that tension…
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DREY STAR HONOURS HIS PARENTS ON NEW SINGLE “KIRA”
A song about the hands that held us up before we could stand on our own. Nigerian Afropop artist Drey Star drops “Kira” this September 26, a tender tribute to the parents whose sacrifices are too often left unsung. “Kira asks us not to become so consumed by our pursuit of success that we forget…
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WHAT YOUR FEED WILL LOOK LIKE IF YOU MISS DAVE LIVE IN LAGOS
Nigeria was conspicuously absent when Santan Dave announced The Boy Who Played the Harp global tour in October 2025. By the time the tour began in Munich in February, one Nigerian Dave superfan had embarked on a daily campaign to curry the rapper’s attention on X, documenting each day of his appeal with posts that…
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ru. Opens Up About ‘Silk’ And The Woman She’s Becoming
This piece was submitted by a contributing writer, Ifowa Ajike. ru. is a firm believer in divine orchestration. “There’s just something about submitting to a will that is much higher than yours, smarter than yours, incredibly intelligent and also trustworthy,” she says. “It has never failed me yet.” I’m inclined to agree. Going off deep…
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