When last we left Jocelyn Bioh at Round House Theatre, she was poking gleeful fun in “School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play” at the bruising pecking order of high school life in Ghana. Now, ...

After the python dance initiated by the military to the southeast or more specifically the biafrans, a Facebook user took to Facebook to make a claim which actually came true. Recently it was claimed ...

This story is featured in the March/April 2025 issue of ESSENCE. In 2017, sisters Tochi and Ebele ­Anueyiagu shared a single image on their new Instagram account: a still of Nigerian film and beauty ...

African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. Follow the team on Twitter ...

They used to be the preserve of informal home gatherings around old flickering TV sets, but Nollywood films have now gone global. Movie streaming giant Netflix has dedicated an entire section to ...

Audience members watched a small spark grow into a fiery flame as a night filled with dance, fashion and an original theater production unfolded before their eyes at this year’s Africa Night. On ...

Lagos, Nigeria, is Africa’s most populous metropolitan area—with an estimated 21 million inhabitants. It also boasts the biggest economy of any city in Africa, housing some of the richest people on ...