Victoria Island (VI) is an affluent area that encompasses a former island of the same name that sits between Lagos Island and the Lekki Peninsula in the Lagos Lagoon. It is the main business and financial centre of Lagos in Lagos State, Nigeria. Victoria Island is one of the most exclusive and expensive areas to live in Nigeria. The town...
Lagos City with its adjoining conurbation, is the largest city in Nigeria, as well as on the African continent. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the world and also one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Also, Lagos is a major financial centre in Africa...
Umunze town in Anambra State Nigeria is one of the most amazing places …If I may say so myself, maybe it’s because this is where I am from. Umunze is the headquarters of Orumba south local government area in Anambra state of Nigeria. Its geographic...
My name is Kehinde Williams. I hail from Sagamu or Ishagamu which is my home town. It is a city and the headquarters of the Local Government Area of the same name in south-western, Ogun State near the Ibu River. My town is the part of the Yoruba cultural region of south-western which...
I found out that the New Nigerian Cinema which’s also known as New Nollywood or New Wave is an emerging phase in Nigerian cinema, in which there became a major shift in the method of film production, from the video format, which came about during the video boom, back to the cinema method,...
I was as well among those who thought the ‘Juju’ in Juju Music connotes witchcraft but found out Juju music did not derive its name from juju, which is a form of magic and the use of magic objects or witchcraft common in West Africa, Haiti, Cuba and other South American nations. It is a...
I was startled when I heard about the Walls of Benin. It was considered the largest man-made structure lengthwise and was hailed as the largest earthwork in the world. That’s mind blowing! Seeing that Nigeria has such an outstanding historic fact that’s exclusive and unique, no...
Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo varies in its different forms. Outside of Africa, most music from the Democratic Republic of Congo is called Soukous, which most accurately refers instead to a dance popular in the late 1960s. The term rumba orrock-rumba is also used generically to refer to...
This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and...