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Afrobeats blew up not because artists hired influencers, It blew up because the music gave people an identity. Being an Afrobeats fan before it was cool meant something. It said something about who you were, what you knew. No marketing budget or influencer brief or impressions...

Most brand pages don't fail. They get abandoned. 

There is a specific kind of grief that brand page owners never acknowledge. It's the grief of a page you started with genuine energy left abandoned. Not because they didn’t have something real to say, they just didn’t say it long...

A brand hires a social media manager, gives them the brand logo, maybe a brand guide and a guardrail, and says "grow us." No brand voice. No brand personality. No answer to the question of why anyone should care. The manager posts. They experiment. They try memes, carousels,...

My suya man, your suya man, all of the suya men we've patronized have never advertised a day in their life. No Instagram. No flyers No “link in bio.” No buy-one-get-one-free nonsense. Just a smoky grill, a rusted skewer, and a memory that would shame your CRM. He knows how I...