After a five-year wait, Nigerian music icon Tiwa Savage is set to make her highly anticipated return with a new album,
“This One Is Personal,” scheduled for release on August 29.
This marks her first full-length project since the 2020 album Celia.
Savage announced the news on her X account on Tuesday, describing the 13-track record as an intimate Afrobeats journey exploring themes of pain, growth, and resilience.
Recorded across Nashville, London, and Lagos, the album is notably sparse on features, with only UK rapper Skepta and rising star Taves making guest appearances.
Savage emphasized the intentionality behind these choices in a fan Q&A on X.
“I wanted you all to feel me in every song. The few features I chose were very intentional, with people who understood the vision and could add to the message without taking away from its intimacy,” she explained.
“It’s less about numbers and more about connection.”
Savage revealed that the project is a reflection of her personal journey over the past five years, a period during which she balanced significant career transitions, motherhood, and self-discovery.
The announcement has ignited excitement among her global fanbase, who have flooded social media with the hashtag #ThisOneIsPersonal to engage with the singer as she shares insights into the album’s creation and the stories behind each track.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
