Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, and Tyson Fury all have one thing in common—a Nigerian connection.

Those with families are sometimes fortunate enough to receive some form of care while the unlucky ones are left to roam the streets.

I have a lot of flaws but the colour of my skin is not one of them / Ugandan writer Hilda Awori on colourism in Uganda.

You’re the music inside my head—my love song. And when the music plays, I pull the hair back from my face and, holding it up with bobby pins, I dance for you.

Ndaba writes on the many ills of child marriages.

Should African books and movies always promote an African idea?

Should Nigerians be surprised by the government’s invasion of a courtroom and its disregard of a bail order?

Another day in the life of a Lagos hustler

MD Mbutoh writes a rejoinder to Michelle Tchokote’s article on Cameroon.

Michelle Tchokote speaks on Cameroon's anglophone crisis and the need for unity.

Maybe, preferring coffee is the sign of an amazing work ethic and preferring tea, the sign of a perennial belly-scratcher.

Yes, I said I was fluent in inane not that I was very intelligent.

Ayomide Oluseye explores the sex for grades scandal in Nigerian universities.

Because to have made it is to be able to afford a wig or a weave. It is not to look after your hair properly or to still have your cornrows.

That Christmas, as we began our British lives, my parents bought a Christmas tree. It made up, somehow, for the snow which did not come.

It is not uncommon to see young boys who call themselves Fabregas or Messi or Ronaldo.

A woman is viewed as incomplete if she does not know how to cook. When a lady says she doesn't know how to cook or she hates cooking, she is automatically judged.

Examining the African woman through arts.

Budding Nigerian artiste Bman reflects on the role of music in society.

Teenage pregnancy the leading cause of death among female teenagers in Nigeria—or is this only half of the picture? In this essay, public health researcher Ayomide Oluseye discusses teenage pregnancy in Nigeria and why the stigma associated with teenage pregnancy is wrong.