Moveee Editorials

When you pick up Aishat A. Bolaji’s Flowers at the City of Dreams, you should read the dedication first. “Dedicated to the courage it took…

In modern Nigerian culture, the “Japa” story is typically framed as a binary: success or tragedy. Salmah Salam Oiza’s debut collection of poems, Foreign in…

The woman as a heroine in the victimisation of social conditioning is a fashionable portrait of the protagonist in contemporary romantic fiction. The reader encounters…

Kano, Nigeria: It’s Friday, September 12, 2025; the sun had just risen with a humming smile, dust spilling around. I marched down from my residence…

The art of poetry is built on the principle of compression, a demand to say the most with the least. To write poetry is to…

Across many African traditions, the mind is not the sovereign it imagines itself to be. The Yoruba show the delineation of this in the inner…

Some novels arrive like whispers; others break into your consciousness and refuse to leave. Chukwuemeka Famous’ We Will Live Again belongs firmly in the latter…

Every human wanders through different phases in life. Sometimes we drift towards something; other times, something drifts towards us. Whether it is the former or…

Welcome to Owuro Every small town in Nigeria has secrets. Owuro, the fictional Ondo State municipality at the centre of Magdalene Agweven’s debut novel, is…

I once posited elaborately on the position of Skip Gates—I believe—regarding critical canons and the particularity of looking at works. He argues that all works…

Kemi Adetiba’s To Kill a Monkey is a show defined by a powerful central idea: the moment a desperate man decides to kill his conscience.…

Dream Count is not the sweeping saga of Adichie’s acclaimed Americanah or the generational epic of Half of a Yellow Sun. Instead, it’s a finely-wrought,…

Blooming Under Bradford Skies is a masterful assemblage of rich works by Nigerian and British writers who have made Bradford their home. Under the literary…

Nana Sule’s debut novel, Not So Terrible People, is a collection of 11 speculative and mysterious tales, a bold mix of ghosts, angels, jinn, and…

In April 2025, the historic city of Zaria, long hailed as Birnin Ilimi (City of Knowledge), witnessed its first-ever Books and Arts Festival, a groundbreaking…

In this debut collection, Zaynab Ilyasu Bobi, with profound linguistic dexterity, navigates the complexities of grief, displacement, and geopolitical conflict by weaving her Hausa and Islamic heritage into a vivid mosaic of universal human experience.

Walking into A Maze of Power at Rabat’s Mohammed VI Museum (opened 15 April 2025), one is immediately struck by its grandeur. The space is dimly…

The Nigeria International Poetry Convention (NIPCON) celebrated its second edition from November 29 to December 2, 2023, under the theme “Innatism: Create Your Truth.” This…

In November 2022, Sa’id Sa’ad, an international journalist and writer, initiated the Borno Books and Arts Festival (BOBAFEST) in Maiduguri, the capital city of Nigeria’s…

SOTO Gallery as the art gallerist emphasized, was the mastermind behind pioneering +234 ArtFair at EPAC, Lagos which contributed to a significant buzz in the…

Afamefuna: An Nwa Boi Story, Kayode Kasum’s celebratory stab at the nwa boi system, starts at the end and then advances towards the beginning. It…

Aníkúlápó: Rise of the Spectre, a sequel series to the 2022 film Aníkúlápó, transports viewers to the 17th century. The show follows the adventures of…

Nollywood’s unofficial Queen of romcoms, Biodun Stephen, who is known for her simple, moderate-budget narratives, takes on the genre of murder mystery in Hotel Labamba.…

“Anikulapo: Rise of the Spectre” is a six-part epic TV mini-series based on the successful 2022 movie “Anikulapo”, directed and produced by Kunle Afolayan. Here’s the intriguing plot: In a…

In the mystical coastal village of Iyi, tradition and modernity clash like waves against the shore. The villagers revere Mama Efe, a faith-healer who channels the ancient…

Odunlade Adekola’s Orisa is the story of a proud king Oba Adefolarin (Odunlade Adekola) who, having been made mentally unstable by a coven of witches,…

The Merry Men franchise primarily introduces us to the lives of four eligible bachelors, Ayo (Ramsey Nouah), Naz (Jim Iyke), Remi (Falz) and Amaju (Ayo…