Aniefiok Ekpoudom

Jan 23, 2025 | theguardian.com | Aniefiok Ekpoudom

They arrived in 80s London with small intentions: to study, to work, to outrun what they had come from, and then maybe, one day, return back home. A people who came en masse from Nigeria, working the dark hours, balancing two jobs with part-time education, rolling in a ceaseless loop of morning shifts into lectures into night work again, until maybe a qualification came good, and they could move into some kind of steady career or profession.

Sep 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Aniefiok Ekpoudom

After 12 years, five albums and four mixtapes, the curtain closes. Nines’ final project, Quit While You’re Ahead, will be his last. And though many are often sceptical about the idea of a rapper retiring, believing that any such promise will eventually be walked back on, the 34-year-old, real name Courtney Leon Freckleton, is serious about his sixth album being his ultimate. “I ain’t coming back.

Apr 8, 2024 | msn.com | Aniefiok Ekpoudom

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Apr 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Aniefiok Ekpoudom

There’s a video format spreading on TikTok. Recorded in towns across suburban England, teenage interviewers stop their peers on the street, fielding questions that range from fashion choices to humorous hypotheticals and local neighbourhood dramas, in the process building a large social media following and showcasing their patch of land to the world. “950 [pounds] for that, you know my ting,” a teenage white boy says about his Canada Goose jacket in a video recorded in Bury St Edmunds.

Mar 19, 2024 | faber.co.uk | Tim Woodall |Aniefiok Ekpoudom

By Faber Editor, 18 March 2024 Get to Aniefiok Ekpoudom, the author of Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain, who kindly humours us with rapid responses to fifteen entirely frivolous questions.