Whether we have paid conscious attention to it or not, Nollywood cinema and its influence on popular culture in the current digital age has been a long-in-the-works phenomenon, which has only very recently received its global due diligence.

Once a month, Marvel fans and Twilight fans gather on Twitter to reiterate the impact of watching the Avengers assemble against Thanos and the Cullens face off against the Volturi respectively, live in the theatre. Although the age of streaming has long taken over, we are still a generation that craves to make a connection with what they consume beyond watching.

At 7:32 pm on the 25th of December 1991, the revolutionary red flag of the Soviet Union was lowered from atop the Council of Ministers building in the Kremlin. At 7:45 it was replaced by the Russian tricolor flag above the illuminated dome, as chimes from the Spassky Tower clock rang to mark the momentous occasion.

THE ACT OF WATCHING OTHERS ENGAGING IN SEXUAL OR NUDE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE THE DAWN OF FUCKING.

TATTOOS HAVE EXISTED ALMOST AS LONG AS THE HUMAN RACE, HAVING BECOME SO POPULARISED IN RECENT YEARS, IT IS EASY TO FORGET THE LONG AND OFTEN SPIRITUAL REASON BEHIND TATTOOING IN MANY CULTURES.

Before hip hop, punk was the most popular genre of music among young people of certain demographics. At the time, common black folk never really had the chance to explore their interests to really form a huge presence on the imagery in punk, they had much bigger and pressing matters to care and not care about.

Social Media has never had a more potent presence in people’s everyday lives as it does in our current age.

Anyone who cares or at least follows any school of art, whether be it music, visual arts, carpentry, sculpting and etc has noticed an aesthetic identity for particular artists. Some artists take it even further and make eras of specific aesthetics.

The general practice of playing music videos on television, termed as vjing, might just be coming to an end.

MUCH OF OUR CURRENT DAY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE 1980S CAN BE SUMMED UP IN OUR MODERN AFFINITY FOR NOSTALGIA.

At first glance whatever's going on here doesn't seem to be organized in any sense but this was only the beginning of recurring Battle Royals for the prize of an art piece by the orchestrator himself.

Many should know by now that the reign of the Apartheid regime from 1948-1994 saw one of the most concerning practices of racial injustice and infringements on basic human rights to date, with the anti-Apartheid movement even having garned worldwide support in its time.

LEGLINER? THE SUPPRESSED SUPPLY OF NYLON STOCKINGS (BECAUSE, WAR) LEAD TO WOMEN MIMICKING STOCKINGS BY DRAWING THEM ONTO THEIR LEGS WITH… EYELINER.