Listening to Asake live is a completely different experience from listening to the studio recordings. Live music has always been an avenue for artists to showcase their raw musical talent and musicianship to their real-life fans. Sometimes they pull it off, and it works; sometimes it doesn’t. But Asake has given me a whole new … Read more
Award-winning director speaks to TheNextShots on why he treats every fashion film as a historical document and more. Adeola Fadola is quietly building one of the most distinct visual languages coming out of Nigerian filmmaking right now, one where fashion is never just decoration but a way of speaking about identity, heritage and aspiration. Raised … Read more
Nigeria’s architecture and landscape have long existed without the level of documentation they deserve. While global design conversations increasingly look toward Africa, many of the country’s historic neighbourhoods, vernacular structures, overlooked landscapes, and beautifully lived-in homes remain largely absent from mainstream visual archives. Through compoundafrica, founder Chuka Okonjo is helping change that. View this … Read more
Fourteen years ago, Jomi Marcus-Bello, Nifemi Marcus-Bello and KC Obijiaku were skating streets that weren’t built for it, with no scene, no park, no infrastructure to speak of, so they built one themselves, on the grounds of a former colonial prison in Lagos. That community, Wafflesncream (waf.), is now the first African skate collective to … Read more
In a campaign that feels pulled straight from a subconscious fever dream, Jordan Brand and the Ghanaian collective Free The Youth have created one of the most visually arresting collaborations of the year. Photographed by Ilya Chemetoff and creatively directed by Tree Filling Window, the imagery transforms an already audacious Jordan x Free The Youth … Read more
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky just dropped another joint campaign for Fenty Skin, extending their on-screen Fenty partnership to a third time. In this latest “DON’T BE DUMB, USE FENTY SKIN” ad, they deliver exactly the kind of effortless cool you’d expect. Rocky plays the charming salesman in humorous salon vibes, marketing some SPF, while Rihanna … Read more
Morocco’s exit in the quarter-finals brought the curtain down on Africa’s involvement in this World Cup, but the tournament leaves the continent with some genuinely special individual moments. Here are eight African players whose performances stood out. Vozinha (Cape Verde) The story of the tournament, from anywhere in the world, not just Africa. The 40-year-old … Read more
LJ Rader’s ArtButMakeItSports pairs modern sports photographs with centuries-old artworks by matching pose, movement, composition, color, and emotion so precisely that the comparisons often feel less like memes and more like visual déjà vu. Most people scroll past a sports photograph and see a dunk, a tackle, a celebration, or a moment of defeat. LJ … Read more
Last week, Super Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye sat front row at the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture show in Paris, right next to Cardi B, and Nigerian timelines have not recovered. If you look past the glamour though, couture week is really about one thing. People deciding exactly who they want to be, then dressing … Read more
Paramount finally dropped the first official images from Children of Blood and Bone this week, and the internet had a lot to say almost immediately. The film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and based on Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling 2018 novel, has been one of the most anticipated Black fantasy adaptations in years, set in the fictional … Read more