Nigeria’s music industry continues to evolve, producing globally recognized talents who push the boundaries of Afrobeats, street-hop, and alternative sounds. In this year, 2025, a new wave of artistes ...

I’m at Art X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair that takes place every November at Victoria Island’s Federal Palace Hotel. The maze-like marquee attracts hundreds of thousands of art ...

As the curtains close on 2025, the Nigerian art and culture scene stands as a landscape of immense triumph, exciting experiences partly shadowed by controversies. From the high-brow galleries of ...

The attention Nigeria enjoys now can be further exploited in a number of ways, with long, medium and short term benefits to be gained. These sounds which has taken decades to grow and evolve into the ...

The 2025 Grammy Awards were a defining moment for Nigerian music, as Tems made history by winning her second Grammy. This achievement not only celebrated her extraordinary talent but also highlighted ...

Kayode Adegbola has been helping build Nigeria’s arts infrastructure for fifteen years through his curatorial platform Adegbola Art Projects. Photo: Jonathan Chambalin. Courtesy Adegbola Art Projects.

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

Credit goes to Mr. President Ahmed Bola Tinubu for restructuring the former Ministry of Information, Culture and National Orientation by creating a full-fledged Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative ...

Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” aims to disrupt the way we think of art history—not only in Africa but globally. Featuring 59 artists working over a period of 50 years, the 300 artworks in the show ...

The real issue at the root of the problem the online media is facing in the music industry in Nigeria is content curation. In 2010 when I first moved to the US for college, things were changing in the ...

Tokini Peterside-Schwebig understands the power of art. It’s why she created Art X Lagos, the premiere art fair and the only one of its kind in West Africa that brings Nigerian and African art to an ...

The Museum of West African Art is poised to give Nigeria an institution of global significance, although its most hyped attractions won’t be there. Credit...Video by Stephen Tayo For The New York ...