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.
Beautiful Nubia, Dr Segun Akinlolu Where Poetry, Music and African Memory Meet Seun Oni Segun Akinlolu, better known as Beautiful Nubia, is a Nigerian composer, arranger, bandleader, poet and writer whose work has, for decades, brought music, language, African cultural memory and social consciousness into the same artistic space. Born in Ibadan in 1968, Akinlolu studied veterinary medicine at the University of Ibadan…
By Ola Aina Ekiti is turning one of Yoruba cuisine’s most enduring traditions into an ambitious global cultural project. Through the World Iyan Carnival, organisers are targeting a Guinness World Record for the largest Iyan pyramid, while linking the celebration to yam cultivation, tourism, heritage preservation and the wider possibilities of Nigeria’s cultural economy. When Tradition Becomes…