Category: Culture

So you’ve realised that every cool kid you know is into EDM now, and you’d also like to check it out but you don’t know where to begin. Don’t worry, we’re here to help.  This is what you should do. Step 1: Start with the electronic edits of songs you already know The easiest entry…

Every year, two days after Ileya, something extraordinary happens in a town that most Nigerians couldn’t point to on a map without help. The streets of Ijebu-Ode fill up. Horses gleam under the Ogun State sun. Fabrics so fine they look painted catch the light. And somewhere in that crowd, among thousands of people who…

Last night, Arsenal finally did it. After more than two decades of waiting, near-misses, and constant “next season” jokes, the Gunners are Premier League champions again, lifting their first league title since 2004. For a generation of fans, this trophy was a release. Years of finishing outside the top four, watching rivals dominate, enduring humiliating…

A Step-by-Step Guide, By People Who Have Had Enough There are people in this world who will borrow money from you energetically, and then go completely silent, as if the transaction wiped their memory along with your contact details. You know these people. You may even love some of these people. But you don’t know…

Dance is one of the oldest forms of human expression. Long before people wrote history down, they were already using movement to communicate identity, emotion, celebration, spirituality, and even resistance. And what makes dance especially powerful is that it travels fast. You don’t need to understand a language to understand rhythm, posture, confidence, or joy.…

Notes From Someone Who Tried See, we all have the same dream. We want the entire friend group to blow, we want to be going to brunch with the girlies on a random-ass Wednesday in our matching pink G-Wagons. Sometimes, though, one friend gets there first. And whenever money enters a friendship, it has a…

It might happen at a different time for each woman, but one thing is for sure: it happens for every woman. The moment where it suddenly becomes clear that the playing field is NOT level. For International Women’s Day, we asked women a simple, yet loaded, question: What was that moment for you? When did…

Every year, social media is taken over by Muslims posting fasting memes, talking about what they ate at 5am, and those adorable Ramadan cats. But we understand that, in our multi-religious society, some people might not fully understand what’s going on, so we’ll do our best to help with the most commonly asked questions: No,…

Love is one of those things that feels general, e go touch everybody. But if you pay attention, you’ll see that it’s also a very fickle thing; coming and going, morphing through various forms, afflicting each sufferer differently. This February, we will explore different experiences of romantic love in all of its iterations: the pining…