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Off The Press: November Opens With Love, Swagger and Praise
6 November 2026, 13:00 WAT
From Chiké's Igbo love note to Umu Obiligbo's book of proverbs, here is the new African music that walked in with the month.
Victor Ehikhamenor's Central Hotel: The Venice Biennale Artist's First Fiction Collection Is Out In Lagos
6 November 2026, 13:00 WAT
Less than two weeks after we covered his Black Muse Art Festival, Victor Ehikhamenor has a book out. Central Hotel, published by Masobe Books, gathers eleven illustrated, interconnected stories of Nigeria and the diaspora, and Lagos gets it months before the rest of the world.
Maysnn’s Beating Heart Costume: A Kinetic Corset With A Robotic Heart Built Into It
2 November 2026, 13:00 WAT
For Halloween, Maysnn and a team of five built a costume around a kinetic corset with an electronic heart that beats, and the construction footage is as good as the finished look.
Maga Envulanza's NICOTINE Follows a Woman Who Has Everything Except Love
17 September 2026, 13:00 WAT
NICOTINE, a fashion editorial and one minute film produced and styled by Maga Envulanza, follows a woman wrapped in red who has everything money can buy except love, and turns to substances just to feel something real. I opened the images before I read a single word about them, and they held me anyway.
Sample Chief's As Loud As Freedom: Lemi Ghariokwu's Fela Album Covers Open in Toronto
16 September 2026, 13:00 WAT
Sample Chief's first art exhibition, As Loud As Freedom, opens September 17 at 918 Bathurst in Toronto, nearly thirty years after Fela left us. Curated by abisola oni, it hangs Lemi Ghariokwu's album art beside new work by Jibola Fagbamiye, Ehiko Odeh, Soji "Shakes" Oyinsan and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, four artists still asking what freedom means for us today. Looking at it from Lagos, I kept noticing how little of it has aged.
Ify's Kitchen: How a Lawyer Turned Nigerian Home Cooking Into a Media Empire
10 September 2026, 13:00 WAT
She spent fourteen years in corporate law before she started filming recipes on Instagram. Seven million people later, Ify Mogekwu is doing the thing most creators never get to do: building something she actually owns.
Nuel Beatz: The producer who would not pick up the phone
14 August 2026, 13:00 WAT
I knew Nuel Beatz through a mutual long before our first Digital Escape Africa music camp, where he was the lead producer and everybody's quiet advantage. The camp was the first thing we actually built together. Years of him building other people's feelings later, he has finally released one of his own. "Tell Me" is about the call you never made, and the reason it exists is funnier and more honest than the press release lets on.
EscapeMag Issue 15 | Linda Ejiofor-Suleiman: The Performance Finally Spoke Loud Enough
24 July 2026, 13:00 WAT
Three years ago Linda Ejiofor thought her career was going nowhere. On May 9, 2026, she became the first actress in AMVCA history to win Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the same night. Nobody batted an eye. We all just nodded and thought, yes. That's about right.
EscapeMag Issue 15 | Layi Wasabi: Nothing Here is Random
23 July 2026, 13:00 WAT
The lawyer character came from watching real lawyers. The comedy came from observation. The business came from structure. None of it was an accident. That is exactly the point.
EscapeMag Issue 15 | Mercy Eke: The Business of Being Seen
22 July 2026, 13:00 WAT
She didn't wait for the industry to figure out what to do with her. She figured it out herself. Everything else is just the record catching up.
Weird Is the Welcome Sign: EF Moon and the New Wave Rising Out of Nigeria
5 July 2026, 13:00 WAT
EF Moon arrives like someone left the door open to a room nobody knew existed. The music does not rush to explain itself. It does not reach for you. It just is. And somehow that makes you lean in harder.
Benny Styling: The Nigerian Stylist Who's Building How Public Figures Are Seen
19 June 2026, 13:00 WAT
"Every styling decision now serves a larger purpose beyond aesthetics," he explains. "I pay closer attention to a client's personal brand, audience, career goals, and the story they want to tell."
Atunbi Africa Originals: The Nigerian Brand Turning Waste Into Things People Actually Want to Own
18 June 2026, 13:00 WAT
The sachet water bag — the one that clogs Lagos drains, that litters every market pavement, that Nigerians drink from and throw down without thinking — became cloth. Became material. Became something you could hold up to the light and call a creation.
Before They Become Household Names: Five African Creators You Need to Know Right Now
8 June 2026, 13:00 WAT
A story about creativity, craft, and the people building Africa's next creative wave.
Rukmani returns with two records and a quieter, more certain version of herself
22 May 2026, 13:00 WAT
Her new double A-side, Serial Kisser featuring Boj and HIH (Hot In Here), arrives on the one-year anniversary of her debut album 3XL, and the two records feel less like a drop and more like a statement of range. Both songs are about confidence. Neither sounds the same.
The New African Creative Movement: Inside EscapeMag’s ‘Motion’ Issue
11 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
Inside EscapeMag’s ‘Motion’ issue: Discover the new African creative movement. From Lagos to Nairobi, see how creators are shaping the global creative economy.
APEX VILLAGE - PsychoYP: The Foundation
4 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
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SNEAKY TITAN: The Things We Don’t Understand About Sneakers
4 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
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Abbietayo: The Internet Happened to Her
4 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
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Kini-Abasi “Kay” Edet: The System Behind the Talent
4 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
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CUTEES: Dressing the Modern African Man
4 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
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Kid Baby: No Way It’s The Same Person
4 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
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MAYSN: The Art of Endurance
4 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
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APEX VILLAGE - Azanti: The New Blood
4 April 2026, 13:00 WAT
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