Wilfred Okiche, African Arguments

Wilfred Okiche

African Arguments

Lagos, LA, Nigeria

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  • African Arguments
  • Y! Online
  • AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

Past articles by Wilfred:

The best African albums of 2022

From the songbirds of Mali to the exciting hybrid voices of the south, these are some of the finest African albums from 2022. → Read More

From hot tailors to haunted homes: Six of the best African films of 2022

Here's a list of some of the best African films released recently. They are all must-sees, and all happen to have been directed by women. → Read More

#YNaija2021Review: Asaba declaration, Northwest bandits, electoral bill…The Biggest News Stories of the Year » YNaija

We followed some of the biggest headlines obsessively. Banditry in the northwest About 140 students went missing in July after armed men raided Bethel → Read More

#YNaija2021Review: Burna Boy’s Grammy, Wizkid’s Essence, fintech unicorns… 10 Moments that Made Us Proud this Year » YNaija

Being Nigerian is hard enough. But these breakthroughs felt like collective wins and made it a little bit easier to believe in project Nigeria. Burna Boy → Read More

#YNaija2021Review: Ckay, Ayra Starr, Michael Omonua…See the Revelations of the Year » YNaija

Stars were born- and reborn. TJ Benson Writer and visual artist TJ Benson has been on the grind for a while publishing his work in several journals around → Read More

#YNaija2021 Review: TB Joshua, Sound Sultan, Rachel Oniga…Notable Deaths of the Year » YNaija

Here’s to the lives we lost this year. May their souls rest in peace. Chike Akunyili Renowned surgeon, philanthropist and husband of the late → Read More

How 'Comic Relief' is fighting malaria with film in Ghana and Tanzania » YNaija

For Amil Shivji, it started with a one-page pitch. Comic Relief, the United Kingdom based charity organisation founded by comedian Lenny Henry and → Read More

Film Review: The Underestimated Villain is a punchy animated poem » YNaija

There is very little that is pretty about malaria. The mosquito-borne disease that causes morbidity and mortality with aplomb was in 2019 alone, → Read More

Film Review: In Mbuland, fighting malaria is a collective responsibility » YNaija

Mbuland opens with a vivid image. One that is all too real for anyone living in this part of the world. A scourge of mosquitoes zoom through a swamp, a → Read More

#YNaija2020Review: Duduke, Nobody, FEM…The 10 Biggest Songs of the Year » YNaija

2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no → Read More

#YNaija2020Review: Joy Nunieh vs Akpabio, Erica vs Laycon…The Top 10 Beefs of the Year » YNaija

Ready. Steady. Fight. 10. Erica vs Laycon Before Laycon sashayed away with the #BBNaija Lockdown cash prize of 30 million Naira among other gifts totaling → Read More

#YNaija2020Review: Twice as Tall, Celia, Made in Lagos… See our 10 Best Albums of the Year » YNaija

2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no → Read More

#YNaija2020Review: The Milkmaid, Òlòtūré, Eyimofe…The Best Films of the Year » YNaija

2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the film industry for months at a time with one swoop as governments issued stay → Read More

#YNaija2020Review: Laycon, Omah Lay, Anthonieta Kalunta…The Revelations of the Year » YNaija

2020 was traumatic enough it is easier to forget. Don’t forget the 10 people on this list. Oluwatobiloba Ajayi Oluwatobiloba Ajayi is the inaugural winner → Read More

#YNaija2020Review: Duduke, Abule, Damages…The 10 Best Pop Songs of 2020 » YNaija

2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no → Read More

#YNaija2020Review: Ogadinma, Black Sunday, new Wole Soyinka…The Notable books of the year » YNaija

The titles that kept us reading through a pandemic. A Broken People’s Playlist- Chimeka Garricks Almost ten years after publishing his debut novel, → Read More

#YNaija2020Review: Tolulope Arotile, Majek Fashek, Ibidun Ighodalo...See Notable Nigerian Deaths of the year » YNaija

Editor's Note: It's been a very 'different' year for mankind - the first in at least a century.Apart from being visited with an unforseen pandemic that → Read More

Nollywood’s political struggle

How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the protests of #EndSARS? → Read More

Profile: The courageous defiance of DJ Switch » YNaija

It was the livestream that traumatised an entire country. Streamed, shared and viewed countless of times since the fateful night of 20, October, the video → Read More

Film review: 'This Lady Called Life' is a modest charmer » YNaija

In Kayode Kasum’s perfectly acceptable This Lady Called Life, Bisola Aiyeola is Aiye; a young single mother struggling to get by in the big city. Like → Read More