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This shout separates the darkness from the light.

Deep soundscape from the creeks unreels at the Venice Architecture Beinnale

Change takes time. We take our time with this version of 'Change'.

Back market blues: sometimes to understand a city, you need music.

Afro-urban superhero league: regenerating Nigeria's oil capital is a superhuman task.

Money Stolen. Protests planned. Vigilantes out. Where are the police? Tune in!

In the informal oil economy, market volatility involves actuals flames.

What these children saw, when they close their eyes, they still see.

National Electric Power Authority, AKA: Never Expect Power Always

What's more important than a young woman's education? Who's learnt what?

Daily enterprises of survival meet city task-force: we hustle-hustle, they chop-chop

They painted red crosses on the walls. Then they bulldozed Martha's neighbourhood.

After the bulldozers: for many, the struggle is only just beginning.

Marriage celebrations; criminal investigations; someone has trouble breathing. Tune in!

My house stood here. My daughter's shoe marked the spot. One shoe.

Was a man killed? Is the governor implicated? The Yam Zone Assignment.

Bulldozers rolled like a tsunami, but this is not a natural disaster.

Walk 20mins to a toilet hanging over the water. A childhood adventure.

The community rebuilds after demolition. Cecilia and Jesse pursue their investigation.

A beautiful morning: sun shining; music in the air; bullets flying.

One night from a year of contagion and conflagration in Port Harcourt

A song of the sister, a feminist interrogation of contemporary Nigerian society.

Music in the air. And soot. But Slim D doesn't choke.

Public health policy or photo opportunity: marriage monitoring in viral times.

Rubble at our feet. Children in jail. Lawyer Ngowari has a plan.

An accelerating pandemic. Violent police impunity. Sex-workers struggle to make a living.

In the streets, struggling to reimagine Nigeria. Some paid with their lives.

Too much drama. It's no game. Victory and disaster in a day.

You are never too old to be the target of police extortion.

School's closed, but the holiday's not a holiday if it never ends.

Police treat people like cash machines. Then people talk back.

With schools closing, some students are opening businesses

After the mass-arrests, friends can't find him: Jesse's in a dark place.

Some thieves are billionaires. Others rob those as poor as they are.

There's no such thing as a free ride in pandemic Port Harcourt

Martha speaks of life behind the wall. Before lockdown. And after. 

Angala Community episode one: fire and police sweep through the community.

You were arrested for having tinted hair, tortured for having an iPhone

The song that starts the story. Angala Community radio drama coming soon.

Written for his brother in unlawful detention. Better to shout than shoot.

The taser-powered taskforce terrorised market-goers through the day. At night, vampire-shoppers roamed

Soldiers on the streets: virus not the only threat to life.

A corona chronicle of October: the numbers, decisions and consequences

We can't take the light for granted. Nothing beautiful here is easy

Tortured. Sentenced to death. Freed after popular campaigning. Continue the struggle.

An audio-manifesto. This is not science-fiction. Not the news. Tune in!

A corona chronicle of September: the numbers, decisions and consequences

Stories of the storytellers: they cover a changed world from their hoods

In uncertain times, fraught with risk, Osom's still making music that matters

An audio-cartoon of a city where food is scarce and tempers short

A corona chronicle of August: the numbers, decisions and consequences

Our correspondent battles between losing her mask or losing her faith

24hrs, 24 stations: global viral transmission of a good kind

In the dark times, will there be singing? Trap for our time

Local tailors get creative with the newest must-have accessory of our time

Now Squat-to-Pee bosses over the Buffon! 'I can do it!' 

A corona chronicle of July: the numbers, decisions and consequences

How to imagine and build together in a time of social distance

A climate emergency and a global pandemic: a song for our days

As the borders close, police force people to open their wallets

Denny on her bike with her guitar through wonderland

An audio-journey into strange worlds of corona-conspiracy and potentially deadly nonsense

A corona chronicle of June: the numbers, decisions and consequences

The sirens we hear in Port Harcourt are not ambulances. Listen up!

Lockdowns turn perceptions upside-down: bad hoods become good markets

The digital divide has never been deeper as the pandemic disrupts education

A corona chronicle of May: the numbers, decisions and consequences

Solidarity is the vaccine for global inequality. A shot in song

A song about sexual violence, breaking the silence and taking back control

Emmanuel tells of his struggle for government relief instant noodles

The city through windows: we look in at you looking out

The governor said, 'Go hungry and live'. A difficult order to follow

A corona chronicle of April: the numbers, decisions and consequences

Some police see lockdowns as commercial opportunity. Ordinary people pay the price

A kids’-eye view of their city under lockdown: touching and terrifying

Forced to chose between hunger or exposure to disease and taskforce violence

Medical logic stops at the border. Howell's nonstop on the guitar

Through lockdown many are locked into violence. Millie's story brings this home

Food insecurity during a pandemic reveals deep inequalities

What gets spoilt when officials forget who and why they serve

Sunday morning in Okujagu doesn't sound like Sunday morning anymore

A corona chronicle of March: the numbers, decisions and consequences

Over the water, across the city, through our streets: Viral Times