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Gaming in Nigeria and Africa - How New Hardware Like the Steam Machine Could Change the Continent's Game
Somewhere in Surulere, a 24-year-old named Tobe finishes his shift, plugs his phone into a power bank because the light has gone again, and opens a ranked match. His "console" … Read more»
How Marvel and Fast Food Brands Are Winning African Pop Culture - And What Nigerian Brands Can Learn
Picture the queue outside a Little Caesars in late June 2026. People are not lining up because they suddenly crave pepperoni. They are there because the pizza on offer is … Read more»
Mr Eazi - From Accra to the World: How Africa's Most Unconventional Pop Star Built an Empire Beyond Music
Picture a young engineering graduate in Kumasi, Ghana, selling phones and laptops to fellow students to fund his weekends, then noticing that the parties he threw to move that stock … Read more»
Asake and Wizkid's 'MMS' - What the Spotify Numbers Reveal About Afrobeats Collaborations That Actually Work
Two of the biggest names in Nigerian music sharing a single track should be an event in itself, and for a while the assumption across the industry was that pairing … Read more»
DR Congo's Rise in World Football - The Players, the Stories and the African Dream
Houston Stadium fell into a particular kind of hush on the stroke of half-time, the sort of silence that comes when something improbable is about to happen. Portugal had been … Read more»
Ghana's Football Stars Who Made It to Europe - Their Journeys, Earnings and Influence
Munich's Olympiastadion fell silent for a second before it erupted. On the night of 26 May 1993, a corner swung in, Basile Boli rose, and Olympique de Marseille beat AC … Read more»
Why Audience Scores Matter More Than Critics for Netflix Films in 2026
Sometime in late 2021, a heist comedy starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot landed on Netflix to a chorus of professional groans. Critics filed it under forgettable, calling … Read more»
Giannis Antetokounmpo - The African Immigrant Who Became the NBA's Greatest Story
Fifty points. Fourteen rebounds. Five blocks. And, almost cruelly for a man who had spent years being mocked for his free-throw shooting, seventeen made out of nineteen attempts from the … Read more»
Clive Davis - The Music Mogul Who Shaped the Sound of a Century
Standing in a small Manhattan nightclub called Sweetwater's in the early 1980s, the most powerful talent-spotter in American music watched a teenager step up to sing backup for her mother. … Read more»