Yearly Archives: 2025

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Yar Arewa? The Rise of Northern Nigerian Women in the Creative Space

What does it mean to be a Northern Nigerian woman? To some, it is a source of pride, and to others, it feels like a box – a limitation that they want to break out of. In the creative space, being a Northern Nigerian woman often means being underrepresented, overlooked, and misunderstood, but the situation is starting to change. Northern women like Zaynab Musa, founder of Sixth Dimension  and Aisha Kabiru Mohammed, journalist and founder of Naija Mosaic, are actively working to make a difference.

The 15 Most Remarkable Contemporary Nigerian Album Covers

And so begs the question: what makes cover art ‘remarkable’? It should first be said that an image can not exist outside its function. That is, good cover art that does not intrigue the viewer does not exist. It is, after all, its original motive: to make the audience wonder.