New publishers promote fresh voices like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ben Okri alongside well-established figures like Chinua Achebe and Nobel Prize–winner Wole Soyinka, while musicians flock to the mecca of the Afrobeat renaissance, Femi Kuti's New Afrika Shrine. Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, widely regarded as the most successful administrator the city has ever seen, was re-elected in April with 81 percent of the vote.
KUFUATIA mafanikio makubwa yaliyopatikana katika Msimu wa Pili wa Coke Studio Africa, Kampuni ya Coca-Cola kwa kushirikiana na Shirika la Ndege la Kenya, inayo furaha kutangaza kuanza tena msimu wa tatu wa burudani ya muziki maarufu kwa jila la Coke Studio Africa. msimu huu utajumuisha wanamuziki wakali 26 barani Afrika huku nyimbo mpya 52 kutumbuizwa ikiambatana na maonyesho 9 ya wanamuziki wanaotamba hapa duniani.