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Product Review
The Hero’s New Cape: A Review of Hero Lager’s New Design
Hero Lager as a brand is a romantic- a birth child of historical symbolism. It is proudly allied, bold in speech and in sentiment, fluent in the language of the people it favors.
Brewed in the Southeastern city of Onitsha, the story of this proud alignment began in 2012 and even before then.
Music Review
Boy Spyce: A Music Genius In The Making
You see, there are people like me who despite having been in tough places remain in constant search of tenderness. There are people like me who love stories. People to whom music is both acceptance and escape; an invite-only dive into the soul of the artiste. I love music. But I must confess, my love is not unconditional. I ask for too much. I am incredibly hard to please.
Architecture
Studio Inkline’s Origami Architecture Suggests a Stunning Alternative to the Norm
The building, with its impressive undulating black roof and mural infused façade, houses the Inkline Design Studio. Largely built with wood and clad in cement, the structure is pleasingly curvilinear, looks lightweight and curiously, fits spectacularly into a topography it appears to dictate for itself.
Culture
Ladipoe’s ‘Feeling’ is the Rap Messiah’s Second Coming
For someone who really enjoys defying the odds, it looks almost prescient that the first time Ladipoe did this was a pandemic. ‘Know You’ was 2020’s lockdown anthem. The Simi featured song propelled Ladipoe to his first number one spot on Apple Music. With it came a Headies, a bigger fanbase, more attention, and more validation than he had previously enjoyed.
Sci-Fi
Afrofuturism; Is that Not Black Panther
Despite the term being coined in the mid-90s, Afrofuturism can be traced back to the 70s, very notably in the eclectic music of Sun Ra, the photography of Renée Cox and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat amongst others. These earlier representations depict the ideal of black optimists who- despite past and present hardships- could imagine a much better future for the black people.
Architecture
The Makoko Floating School: Why Kunle Adeyemi’s Masterpiece is a Philosophy for the Future
Of national and international appeal, the Makoko Floating school catapulted Kunle Adeyemi and his firm, ‘Nle’ to architectural superstardom. More than that though, the project emphasized the accommodation struggles of the lower divide of the economic class, suggesting a model of architecture that could assuage these struggles and even revolutionize housing in the overly populated city of Lagos, Nigeria and eventually, Africa as a whole.
Sci-Fi
Lekan Jeyifo’s Shanty Mega-Superstructures Amplifies the Lives of Lagos’ Impoverished
Situating these ad-hoc assemblages in commercialized location of the mega-city is in keeping with his objectives of amplifying the poor living conditions of the slum-dwellers of Lagos. Despite the prevalence of high-rise buildings, gleaming Escalades and high-end boutiques, Africa’s most populous mega city has one-quarter of its population in or nearing poverty according to a 2016 Oxford University study
Fashion
Orange Culture Makes Fashion into a Metaphor for Revolution
A designer since the age of 10, Adebayo in his childhood developed an affinity for the unusual. ‘Unusual’ in the sense of fashion gender clichés; socially acceptable norms for the male gender. He was consistently bullied due to his color preferences, his way of speaking, and other idiosyncrasies many might construe as being ‘not man enough’. However, rather than shrinking to the socially acceptable standards, Adebayo rose above it.
Article
Renaissance of African Design and Global Competing Realities
Hinged on the palpable euphoria of post-independence nationalism in late 1950s Nigeria, was an attempt by radical nationalist to ensure a considerable overthrow of Western ideals ingrained into the African subconscious. This radicalism found a representation in the arts when a group of undergraduates of the Fine Art Department of the then Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology (now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria) formed the Zaria Art Society in 1958.
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