Chico FavoritoOn power, appropriateness and the ‘gossip’ toolOne of the ideas I have become consumed with over the last 5 years is the concept of power. How we wield it, how it influences the…11 min read·Feb 17, 2021----
Chico FavoritoThe Milkmaid proves Nollywood is capable of more than we give it credit forThe Milkmaid has had quite a journey before it reached me as a pre-event screener. Finished in 2018, it has been banned by the Nigerian…6 min read·Jan 26, 2021----
Chico FavoritoPeople are buying the Alexis, Not MelodiaAnyone with a cursory interest in Nigerian fashion has heard of the Alexis dress from Melodia_NG. A viral hit that started gaining…7 min read·Jan 6, 2021--1--1
Chico FavoritoFOLIE A DEUXI wrote this in March 2013, a particularly hard month for me. I’d just been given TheNakedConvos column, The Alchemist, and it mattered to…8 min read·Sep 23, 2018----
Chico FavoritoThis is all, for better or for worse, autobiographical. — Frank Ocean1 min read·Jul 25, 2018----
Chico FavoritoRequiems: number 1Do you have to look at me to know I’m dying?2 min read·Mar 20, 2018----
Chico FavoritoSufjan Stevens is Tonya HardingI really wish I hadn’t listened to Sufjan Stevens “Tonya Harding” before I saw the film adaption Sufjan had written the song for, finally…4 min read·Jan 21, 2018--1--1
Chico FavoritoFiona Apple: Valentine.I’m most inspired by music. There are worlds and worlds of stories crammed into three minute songs, worlds that unfurl when you put on your…3 min read·May 31, 2017----
Chico FavoritoinDanfomaticKa M Kuo MeI have spent the last month platonically sharing a bed with one of my two great loves and corresponding with the other. Its almost like the…2 min read·Mar 24, 2017----
Chico FavoritoinDanfomaticLost NightThe music plays, it’s slow and languid. People sway in front, their chests breaching the raised dais. Their eyes turn dreamily at the lead…10 min read·Feb 14, 2017----