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Eslah Ayenajei
Eslah Ayenajei is a writer, poet, and mobile photographer. He is currently an Editor Assistant at The Moveee. His works have been published in Apricity Magazine, Photocarrefour Africa, and elsewhere.
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This African artist collective rides on Web3 rave to celebrate feminine beauty and strength
The world has seen a surge in the adoption of digital artworks via the not-so-new NFT medium, and we…
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Why Stanley Ebonine is creating an NFT community to foster cultural representation in Web3
The world has seen a surge in the adoption of digital artworks via the not-so-new NFT medium, and we…
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Photographer Solomon Uhiara translates experiences of sleep paralysis into debut NFT collection
The world has seen a surge in the adoption of digital artworks via the not-so-new NFT medium, and we…
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Music Tenses: the Smell of Summer
Music tenses is an experimental series where we make creative poetry or prose from titles of some of…
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The Moveee-In: Simone Leigh’s Pavilion
African Minimalism There’s a way art always captures your attention. It has you either focused…
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A Step Back: Celebrated writer, scholar, and philosopher Es’kia Mphahlele
“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the …
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A Step Back to “Is This Love”, the 1978 Reggae Classic by Bob Marley & the Wailers
I wanna love you and treat you right I wanna love you, every day and every night, we’ll be tog…
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Music Tenses: A Lifetime in Paradise
Music tenses is an experimental series where we make creative poetry or prose from titles of some of…
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James Van Der Zee’s legacy documenting the 1920s Harlem Renaissance through photography
Without the past, it’s hard to envision a future to build on, things to avoid, and the ones to…
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The Moveee-In: the FIFA WorldCup theme song
April’s here, and a month-long of spiritual exercise with it too. Ramadan Kareem 🌙 to our Mus…
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Is Young, Famous, and African worth the hype?
Asides from the ravings about Top Boy’s season 4, Netflix came in hot riding with a new series…
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Watch out for Hungry Black Man’s International Black Food and Wine Festival
Have you ever wondered what it’d be like if we had festivals for food and food alone? An all-o…
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Self portrait, female gazes from Dazed 2022 Spring Issue
In 1972, there was an argument led by John Berger that women were portrayed as objects of consumptio…
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Billboard and Afropop get together: watch out for the all-new U.S. Afrobeats Chart
Do you know who else is getting together asides from Rihanna and A$AP (you’ve heard of the eng…
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For Women’s History Month: revisiting the Women’s Living Heritage Monument
In 1954, a group of four South African women launched what has been termed the “first attempt to est…
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Listen to Rachael Kerr’s new intimate Masterpeace
UK-based singer-songwriter of Caribbean and African descent, Rachael Kerr drops her debut album, Mas…
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Mohini’s redefinition of African beauty; A Palette at a time
Omoehi Ighodalo, a 25-year-old beauty entrepreneur from Lagos is the owner of Mohini Beauty, a new l…
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Poem of the Week: Djehane Hassouna’s Weight of Traditions
Djehane Hassouna is a brilliant Egyptian poet who expresses her feelings through poetry until she be…
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Tobi Kyeremateng’s debut documentary film brings Nigeria’s Ówàmbé to Netflix
Tobi Kyeremateng takes Nigerian culture to a whole new level. Her directorial debut documentary film…
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Little Simz and other members of Top Boy’s cast speak with Dazed Digital
For those of us that have seen HBO’s all-time classic, The Wire, Top Boy could arguably be its…
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Grinding for Change: Ash Phillips and Miro LaFlaga of Six Cinquième Appear in Creative Boom
If you’ve ever chanted the words “Go big and don’t go home,” then subconscio…
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Away! To Columbia Records with Oxlade
On Thursday, March 10th, Oxlade took to his social media pages to announce a new deal with Epic Reco…
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The Moveee-In #2: We Rise, by Lifting Women
The Moveee-In is a newsletter featuring the juiciest drop-ins from the creative world. Send recommen…
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The Moveee-In #1 — Ahh, Finesse
A happy new week to you! Welcome to the maiden issue of The Moveee’s weekly newsletter, T…
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From the Jailer, comes V: Listen to Asa new project
As you must have discovered, Asa is back! After a long streak of mainstream silence that left many G…
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Deposit Photo rolls out free Say No to War collection in response to Russia-Ukraine conflict
Let’s begin with these heart-wrenching images from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. A R…