By: Bamijoko Favour In July 2015, two students, Habeeb Kolade and Dolapo Amusat came together to start a collective, UITES WRITE, publishing electronic anthologies to their mention. The goal of UITES WRITE was to create a “platform to showcase literary work by University of Ibadan students and alumni” by creating […]
Entertainment
Kongi Through the Years
By: Bamijoko Favour For the man, everything is perhaps an endless chain of enactments. Only few Africans, in modern times, have enacted a life seemingly larger-than-life like the man, Wole Soyinka. And, as far as Soyinka’s theatrics and enactments are concerned, anywhere is his stage — school, a radio station, […]
The Demise of Social Activism in Nigeria’s Music Industry
By – Bamijoko Favour With over 28 KM in-between, every inch of the road, from the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, to Gbemisola Street, in Ikeja, was overwhelmed with close to two million people, as they trekked, within whiffs and clouds of marijuana smoke, just to put to rest the […]
Spotlight: A Time Out with Shegundo
By: Bamijoko, Favour With a vivacious or free spirited melody, a soulful lyrical delivery permeated with an afro-consonscious percussion, Segun Akinola, a final year student of the Faculty of Arts and singer, popularly called Shegundo, debuts his first single. Titled Come to Me, Shegundo’s afropop single, heavily draws from the […]
Beneath the Platitude is an Immersive Subculture of Entertainment & Socio-cultural Life
By – Bamijoko Favour The age-long story goes that the University of Ibadan and her students are zealously preoccupied with academics or an almost non-existent socio-cultural life on the receiving end. While it is true that the University is heavily fixated on its academic aspects, the fact of the matter, […]
African affair: Fashioning the Soweto Soiree
Hello there, welcome to Soweto. As the evening beckons and the stars align over this vibrant city, a unique celebration of heritage and elegance is about to unfold. “Soweto Soiree: The African Affair” is not just a dinner party; it’s a fashion escapade that invites you to immerse yourself in […]
Entertainment – Whether in Still Pictures or Video Clips, Mr Ibu Lives On
By: Favour Bamijoko According to Susan Lee Sontag, photographs, and by extension, videos, in whatever form, confer on the object of the picture or video immortality — or a sense of it. And so it shall be with Mr. John Okafor, or, more conventionally, Mr. Ibu, whose endless tapes and […]
Brushstrokes From The Premier: Into The World of Visual Artistry in UI(Part 1)
By: Eriomala John The mention of the word ‘art’ in the University of Ibadan is more likely to trigger a response referencing its famed Faculty of Art before anything else. An innocent bystander might even assume it to be a call for directions to the faculty itself or one’s attempt […]
Avatar the Live Action: Keeping with the Disappointments
By: Ochi Maduabuchi Nnamdi Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked… Let’s talk about it. Netflix just released the live-action remake of Avatar the Last Airbender, and fans are once again put through the gruelling process of seeing a beloved […]
Joking Apart: UI’s Emerging Culture of Skitmaking
By: Toluwalope Ayeye A deep look into the entertainment scene in UI might not necessarily bring up much for discussion as it is no news that compared to other schools, the University of Ibadan suffers a lot in terms of its distribution of student creatives and entertainers. This is […]





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