Photo by Musa Ortaç on Unsplash the last mangoes of the season so, here we are again, and not for the first time, Jolly Detta, another end of year and

Dear Reader, It has been two years since you last heard from us. This silence was not intentional. The exigencies of living abroad have meant that Yaba Left Review has

As Stein prowled London in search of purpose, Fela, the man to whom he was to become friend and manager, was deciding, in the very same city, which blast of the trumpet worked best to cut to the heart of people. Perhaps they walked past one another, maybe even sat in the same places, given Stein’s early fixation with jazz and jazz clubs, one of which he opened as a teenager.

Davido’s fifth  album, 5ive, opens with a performance poem of the same title by the Nigerian poet Alhanislam. The poem, which invokes “five” as both symbol and rhythm, works as

To discuss To Kill a Monkey without addressing its reception would be disingenuous. The release was a cultural event. Adetiba’s extraordinary fanbase has erupted since King of Boys (2018) established