This is to be read in a dramatic Yoruba accent. He was not made, he was created. There was marked intentionality to it. An intention to produce the unique, unprecedented. He was forged, from the finest and toughest of materials. He was heated until he sizzled, polished until he glistened…

The opinions expressed here are just that — opinions. None of them are necessarily correct or valuable. I saw Avatar: The Way of Water with Gbemi Akinlade. It was my second viewing. It is that good. As always, James Cameron is dauntless and intricate. His movie is a colorful, spectacular…

Read Come On. We must now commit to leading honourable lives. We must now keep our hands clean and our heads, high. So when we need to speak truth or fight oppression, we may do so freely. So our mouths remain unclogged and our hands, untied. So we may find…

Colm and the price of greatness. I saw Banshees of Inisherin and Causeway on the same night. I thought they were similar, thematically. Both films were about friendship. I wrote that while one friendship was ending in a world with too little, the other was beginning in a world with too much. Banshees of Inisherin is…

It is midnight in London and I am ecstatic. Earlier, I was stretching my hands, tapping my feet and singing aloud to Fireboy’s Glory. Damn it, I have won 2022. I never lose, glory to God. I told you that Midnight in Lagos was the final post in the midnight…

This is fiction. She’ll be talking big on the internet. She’ll be flooding. She’ll be going on about men, discontent, wickedness. Little miss, her. She’ll be wishing, manifesting, resolving. She’ll be conflicted, divergent. She’ll be caught between that Jesus in red font and that cannabis in red lights, between that…

I am on Twitter and Instagram — @themccoyman In April 2021, I wrote Cowrywise, cut soap for us!, a viral piece for Culture Intelligence, on YNaija.com. For my work at Culture Intelligence, I often explained the how behind innovative Nigerian businesses. I wrote that Cowrywise is “a wealth management application…

Kenneth and leaving home. For all the promise of Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile was a let down all round — the implausibility of the story, the performance, the disappointing denouement, the cringe CGI. The ensemble of A-list actors was not stirred nicely, not like in Dune or The French…

Welcome. This is the last time I will do this — go on about myself. Enjoy this one. This announcement should not come as a surprise; there are obvious, practical reasons why. I am preoccupied with work now. Also, the team at Medium must be sniffing something wild because it…