TCMP — Independent journalism and creative storytelling that elevates African voices in the UK, Nigeria, and global diaspora.
TCMP — Independent journalism and creative storytelling that elevates African voices in the UK, Nigeria, and global diaspora.
A Viral Interview and a National Conversation Few interviews have generated as much discussion in recent weeks as that of Nigerian real estate investor Morenikeji Giwa. Clips from the interview spread rapidly across social media after Giwa suggested that his personal fortunes were not necessarily tied to Nigeria’s economic trajectory and implied that certain forms of…
By late 2023, Sola had stopped seeing care work as temporary. It had become survival. Every morning followed the same structure. Wake up early. Prepare the children for school. Rush to work. Return exhausted. Submit more job applications at night. Then repeat. Her Master’s degree in Data Science still sat on her CV, but the transition into…
When Political Change Meets Human Behaviour Every society that wins political freedom carries the expectation that life will improve. Political transitions are often accompanied by hopes for greater fairness, dignity, opportunity, and economic inclusion. Yet history shows that political liberation does not automatically produce social and economic transformation. South Africa remains one of the most prominent examples. The…
Public debate often portrays African migration as a growing challenge for Europe and North America. A closer examination of migration data reveals a more complex reality, one in which most African migrants remain within Africa and international migration flows are frequently misunderstood. Migration has become one of the most contested political issues of the twenty-first century. Across Europe and North America,…
By 2023, Peter had stopped describing life in the United Kingdom as a temporary adjustment. This was now life. The routines had settled permanently into place. Night shifts. School runs. Rent payments. Bills. Sleep whenever possible. The structure repeated itself with mechanical consistency. But the roots of this new reality had been planted much earlier. …
Peter arrived in the United Kingdom in late 2021. It was winter. The first thing he noticed was not the cold. It was the silence. The absence of the noise he was used to in Lagos. The movement. The unpredictability. In London, everything felt structured, controlled, almost too still. For a moment, it felt as though stability had a sound. …
How the continent is reclaiming its identity in a world it does not control A Continent Inside Systems It Does Not Own Africa’s digital future is still largely shaped by systems designed, owned and governed outside the continent. It does not control a global media platform with the reach and influence of major Western broadcasters such as BBC…
By Prof. Akanmu Adebayo, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, U.S.A. Prof. Olutayo Adesina, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. How do you write the obituary of a man who achieved near immortality through his works and ideas? That is the question we, Dr Segun Osoba’s academic children and grandchildren, have ruminated on. Osoba, the Ijebu-Ode-born veritable Marxist scholar and one of the…
