Music

November 1996: The Spice Girls. You may very well laugh when they say they’re on a mission to empower the women of the world, but more than a million people in Britain appear to believe them. Just who exactly do they think they are?

The hotly-tipped animator talks rap fandom, weird aesthetics and the Christmas collab with DMX that could have been.

We unpack the songs the Godfather of pop-punk has created through his decades-spanning career.

In spring 2002, THE FACE interviewed the biggest pop star in the world. As the #FreeBritney movement gets louder, the writer reflects on her encounter with a young woman already hurting more than we knew.

Every month, Wale Oloworekende covers the continent's most exciting releases and music news stories for THE FACE.