Media Personality

There is a particular kind of ambition that does not announce itself until it has to. For 26 years, Beth Djalali was a stay-at-home mother — moving her family across continents, raising three boys, supporting a husband whose career took…

He has been called "Africa's number one interviewer." He has been called "the golden boy of African media." But what makes Chude Jideonwo's story genuinely compelling is not the titles — it is the fact that at the height of his success as a…

In Nigerian television journalism, covering local politics is the default. Covering international affairs with depth, consistency, and genuine understanding of the geopolitical forces at play — that is a far rarer thing. Amarachi Ubani has…

In a Nigerian social media landscape dominated overwhelmingly by southern Nigerian voices, Lagos aesthetics, Afrobeats culture, and English-language content, Abubakar Sadauki — known to his 3.9 million TikTok followers as Abis Fulani —…

In 2017, a young Nigerian doctor newly relocated to Lagos made a decision that his medical colleagues found somewhere between baffling and offensive. Instead of pursuing the traditional clinic-and-referral path to professional credibility,…

There are people whose entire public existence is a contradiction of what their society insists is possible. Azeenarh Mohammed is one of them. She is Fulani — one of the most culturally conservative ethnic groups in Nigeria and across the…

Nigerian television has produced many beloved personalities. It has produced fewer genuine institutions. Funmi Iyanda is one of the latter. Over more than two decades, she has hosted the longest-running independently produced show in NTA…

There is a particular kind of creative person who was never going to fit comfortably inside a single national identity, a single artistic discipline, or a single professional category. Uwa Iduozee is precisely that kind of person. He is…

Few Nigerians of his generation carry as many legitimate professional identities simultaneously as Tolu Ogunlesi. He is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, the Financial Times, CNN, and The Economist.…

Nigerian digital media was not built overnight. It was built post by post, story by story, by individuals who saw the internet as a publishing opportunity before most Nigerian institutions had figured out what to do with it. Oladunni Liadi…