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Zainab Kuku is currently focused on reading fictio Zainab Kuku is currently focused on reading fictional texts by Black writers. #OnSite⚡️ Founder of Indigo Distortion and author of ‘Collaborative and Experimental: The Evolution of Afrobeats and Its Current Landscape’ Zainab Kuku, believes any Afrobeats musician that is currently highly-rated is deservedly so: ‘I think everyone who is rated highly right now deserves it and they have worked hard for that praise. The Nigerian music industry before streaming was really hard, there was no clear structure for distributing music and a lot of our highly rated artists started out in that era. There is nothing overrated about that.’ In our latest First Draft interview, Kuku discusses how writing enables her to stay connected to the things she loves; her admiration for Asake and Ayra Starr as artists; the importance of Black characters being central in anything she chooses to read in her leisure time and writing as a tool for self-discovery. Kuku explains: ‘I write to gain a better understanding of who I am at my core. Writing informs me of the things I care about and it keeps me connected to the things in life that move me, such as music, literature, art and different aspects of Black culture. When I write, I’m honouring my inner child and I think that’s my biggest motivating factor for doing it.’ Read the full interview at the link in our bio. ______________________ 📝: Zainab Kuku 🎨: Onyinye Dike, Art Director
INEC Resists Worrisome Attacks #RxNews📡 Have y INEC Resists Worrisome Attacks #RxNews📡 Have you noticed the increased attacks on Independent National Electoral Commission offices as the 2023 elections draw closer? Do you think this insecurity is likely to undermine the electoral process? On 27 November 2022, unidentified arsonists set fire to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in the Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State. In our latest online essay, associate editor at The Republic, Peace Onafuye, notes that in a statement following the incident, Festus Okoye, the national commissioner and chairman of INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee, revealed that the incident occurred at around 10 a.m. in Izzi Local Government Area office in Iboko. Okoye also confirmed on Twitter that the resident electoral commissioner in the Ebonyi, Onyeka Ugochi, had informed INEC headquarters, Abuja, of the development. 340 ballot boxes and an unknown number of permanent voters cards (PVCs) were among the items lost in the attack. According to Okoye, ‘Although no casualties resulted from the attack, the main building and all the movable and immovable items inside it were destroyed.’ While the attack has been reported to the police and other security authorities, it calls for concern. Similar attacks on the INEC’s offices in Ogun and Osun on the 10th of November preceded the attack in Ebonyi. Read the full essay at the link in bio. _________________________ 📝: Peace Onafuye, Associate Editor 📷: INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. INEC NIGERIA / TWITTER
Today in 1848, Mary Slessor was born in Aberdeen. Today in 1848, Mary Slessor was born in Aberdeen. #RxHistory⏳ - On 02 December 1848, Scottish missionary worker, Mary Slessor, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. - Slessor's early life in Scotland was a difficult one, but she was inspired by her mother's faith and longed to follow in the footsteps of famous missionaries abroad. On 5 August 1876, at the age of 28, she set sail for Nigeria aboard the SS Ethiopia to become a missionary. - At her posting in Calabar, Slessor immersed herself among the Okoyong and Efik people, learning local customs and the Efik language. She was chosen to preside over native courts in Okoyong and Ikot Obong, settling disputes, encouraging trade, and introducing Western education, later choosing to work in more remote parts of Calabar, which were considered too dangerous for missionaries. - Slessor is often credited with helping locals to abolish the killing of twins in such communities. - Read more at the link in our bio. _________ 📝: Wemimo Ogunmoyela. 📷: Mary Slessor and some of her adopted children. Transcorp
The Puzzling Logic Behind Nigeria’s New Notes #R The Puzzling Logic Behind Nigeria’s New Notes #RxNews📡 What do you think about the newly redesigned Naira notes? Have you given any thought to the reasons behind this change? On October 26 2022, the Central Bank of Nigeria announced plans to recall ₦200, ₦500 and ₦1,000 banknotes from circulation and replace them with redesigned notes. The old notes will be used for transactions until January 31, after which only new notes will be legally recognized and used for transactions. Banks have been instructed to keep their deposit centres open from Monday to Saturday for collections. No constraints have been placed on how much individuals or corporate entities can deposit, and bank customers will not be charged for cash returned/paid into their accounts during the implementation. In our latest online essay, senior associate editor at The Republic, Hillary Essien observes: ‘Countries recall, redesign and reissue their legal tender for multiple reasons. These include improving the security of banknotes, mitigating counterfeiting, preserving the collective national heritage, controlling currency in circulation, and reducing the overall cost of currency management. The CBN expects the currency recall to encourage a cashless economy, stave-off cash hoarding, and lower kidnapping rates and terrorism as there will be no notes in circulation for ransom payments.’ Read the full essay at the link in our bio. _______________________ 📝: Hillary Essien, Senior Associate Editor 📷: President Muhammadu Buhari presides over the launch of the newly redesigned naira notes at the State House, Abuja. November 23 2022. NigeriaGOV / TWITTER
Today in 1908, Tanimowo Ogunlesi was born. #RxHist Today in 1908, Tanimowo Ogunlesi was born. #RxHistory⏳ - On 01 December 1908, women’s rights activist, teacher, and founding member of the women’s section of Obafemi Awolowo’s, Action Group (AG), Tanimowo Ogunlesi, was born. - She founded the Children’s Home School, Ibadan, one of the first Nigerian-owned boarding schools, and was one of the female members of the Nigerian delegation to the United Kingdom to discuss the country’s independence in July 1953. - Ogunlesi was trained as a teacher. In 1934, she married her husband, J.S. Ogunlesi, a teacher as well. After the marriage, she had to stop working as a teacher based on her husband’s desire for her to become a housewife, but she continued teaching her neighbour's children how to read and write. In 1946, after her husband was awarded a scholarship to study in London, she followed him and continued her education at the nursing school at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland. In 1947, she returned to Nigeria after her husband was appointed Adult Education Officer of the Western Region. - She helped create the Nigerian Council of Women’s Societies and, in 1959, she became its first president. Throughout her life, Ogunlesi fought for women’s rights, education, and socioeconomic rights both in party organizations and women’s networks, as well as at her own school. She died in Ibadan in 2002, aged 93. - Read more about Ogunlesi’s life and legacy by clicking the link in our bio. ____________ 📝: Tomisin Awosika 📷: Mrs. Tanimowo Ogunlesi, taking part at the Nigerian Constitution Conference at Carlton House Terrace. London. 01 July 1953. IMS.
An Illuminating Vision of Black Wealth #OnSite⚡️ On 02 December 2022, Riches, a six-part drama series produced by Abby Ajayi (‘How to Get Away With Murder’ and ‘Inventing Anna’) will premiere on Amazon Prime Video. The series follows a well-to-do Black family—the Richards—as they navigate the vagaries of estranged step siblings and corporate and familial tensions created by the unexpected demise of the family patriarch, Stephen Richards (played by Hugh Quarshie). What is new about ‘Riches’, is the light it casts on the varied, complicated and even stereotypical roles—the investor, the pampered prince, the lady of leisure—that typically surround the kind of generational wealth that many in the Black and African community often aspire to. Nina Richards (Deborah Ayorinde) and her brother, Simon Richards (Emmanuel Imani), have flown to the UK from the US to attend the funeral of their estranged father. Arriving, they find themselves subjected to hostility from the family their father abandoned their mother to start. The series takes a deep dive into the many facets of African familial structures and explores themes such as successful Black entrepreneurship and Black wealth. This is especially due to the fact that, as Ajayi stated in an interview with associate editor at The Republic, Afoma Dike, ‘there is a current of Black ambition and Black success that for various doesn’t necessarily penetrate into the mainstream.’ Read the full review and watch the full interviews the link in our bio. _____________________ 📝: Afoma Dike, Associate Editor 📷: Deborah Ayorinde (Nina) in ‘Riches’. Courtesy of Prime Video 🎥: 1) Interview with Deborah Ayorinde 2) Interview with Emmanuel Imani 3) Interview with Abby Ajayi
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