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Celebrity Buzz The man behind Roll Safe: Kayode Ewumi and the meme that went everywhere The Roll Safe meme, a man tapping his temple with a smug grin, comes from Kayode Ewumi's comedy Hood Documentary, uploaded by BBC Three in June 2016. It went viral in January 2017. Ewumi later created the BBC Three sitcom Enterprice.

Entertainment Things Fall Apart at 68: why Chinua Achebe’s first novel still sells Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, tells the story of Okonkwo of Umuofia and the arrival of colonial rule. It has sold millions of copies and been translated into dozens of languages.

Entertainment Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: the Kenyan writer who gave up English and went to prison for a play Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of Africa's most celebrated writers, was detained without trial in Kenya after a 1977 play in Gikuyu, later stopped writing fiction in English and spent decades in exile. He died in Atlanta in May 2025, aged 87.

Entertainment Ama Ata Aidoo: the Ghanaian writer who put African women at the centre of the story Ama Ata Aidoo, born in 1940 in the Central Region, wrote The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965), Our Sister Killjoy (1977) and Changes (1991). She served as Ghana's education minister and died in May 2023.

Entertainment Amaarae: the Bronx-born, Accra-raised singer behind “Sad Girlz Luv Money” Amaarae, born Ama Serwah Genfi in the Bronx in 1994 and raised between Atlanta and Accra, broke through with The Angel You Don't Know (2020). "Sad Girlz Luv Money", with Moliy, went global on TikTok and was remixed with Kali Uchis.

Entertainment Kwame Anthony Appiah: the Kumasi-raised philosopher who writes The Ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah, son of Ghanaian politician Joe Appiah and British writer Peggy Cripps, grew up in Kumasi and became one of the world's best-known philosophers. He writes The Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine.

Entertainment Mr Eazi: the Nigerian star who found his sound at KNUST in Kumasi Mr Eazi, born Oluwatosin Ajibade in Port Harcourt in 1991, moved to Kumasi in 2008 to study at KNUST. He started out booking artists for campus parties and built a career that has always crossed the Ghana and Nigeria line.

Entertainment Wole Soyinka: the first African Nobel laureate in literature and the prison that shaped him In 1986 Wole Soyinka became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Abeokuta in 1934, he was jailed for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War, an experience he described in The Man Died.

Entertainment Houston’s Igbo rapper in the purple jumpsuit: Tobe Nwigwe Tobe Nwigwe, born in 1987 and raised in the Alief neighbourhood of Houston, is a Nigerian-American rapper, singer and actor of Igbo heritage. Known for his colourful visuals, family-centred image and messages of faith and community, he built a large following through independent releases and videos.

Entertainment Sent to Nigeria at ten to “learn respect”, now a star chef: Kwame Onwuachi Kwame Onwuachi, born on Long Island in 1989 to a Nigerian father and raised largely in the Bronx, spent two years living with his grandfather in Nigeria from age ten. He competed on Top Chef in 2015 and was named Rising Star Chef of the Year by the James Beard Foundation in 2019.