September/October 2026 edition of our magazine for you – Just Like a Physical Magazine.
Flip through the full September/October 2026 edition below to explore every story in detail, from the AI frontier to the streets of Zungeru.
Inside the September/October 2026 Edition of Alice: Machines, Mourning, and the Footprints of Nigeria’s Great Leaders
Alice Magazine, the Air Peace in-flight magazine, takes on its biggest-picture question yet in this combined September/October 2026 issue: not where to travel next, but what kind of world technology is building around us. It’s a reflective edition, pairing a hard look at artificial intelligence with two significant Nollywood tributes and a quietly fascinating piece of Nigerian political history.
The cover story, “The Artificial Intelligence Reckoning: Can Humanity Control Its Creation?” by Isaac Adegoroye, doesn’t treat AI as a novelty feature the way many lifestyle magazines might. It frames the real question of the AI age as not whether machines will outpace humanity, but whether people will stay disciplined and united enough to keep the technology a tool rather than a vulnerability. The piece is unusually direct about risk, walking through AI-enabled fraud, impersonation, malicious code, and the lowering of expertise needed for dangerous research, concluding that the more immediate threat isn’t a machine turning on humanity but people turning increasingly powerful tools on each other.
Entertainment carries real weight in this issue, marking the loss of two titans of Nigerian cinema. “Olu Jacobs: When a Giant Takes His Final Bow,” written by Candice Eze, remembers Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, who died at 84. Born in Kano on July 11, 1942, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Jacobs built a career spanning British repertory theatre, television (The Goodies, The Professionals), international film (The Dogs of War, Roman Polanski’s Pirates), and five decades of Nollywood work alongside his wife, veteran actress Joke Silva. A second tribute, “Nollywood Mourns Ogogo,” by David Edremoda, honours Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo, who died August 23, 2026, at 66, after a battle with stage-four cancer. The piece traces his four-decade career from the cassette and VCD eras through Nollywood’s expansion into the global streaming age, and includes a moving account from friend and colleague Yinka Quadri of his final hospital visit.
On a lighter note, “When a Movie Becomes a Gift” covers Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde’s return to the screen in “Mother’s Love,” a film centred on motherhood, class, and privilege set partly in Lagos’s Makoko community. The piece details Omotola’s announcement, made at a March 13, 2026 private screening in Lagos, that 100 per cent of proceeds from the film’s Nigerian theatrical run would go to Slum2School Africa, the education-focused nonprofit founded by Orondaam Otto. The film had already travelled the festival circuit beforehand, screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Pan African Film Festival, and the Silicon Valley African Film Festival.
One of the issue’s most quietly compelling features is “Zungeru, Niger State: Tracing the Footprints of Nigeria’s Great Leaders,” which uses the small town of Zungeru as an unlikely anchor for two towering, very different figures in Nigerian history: Nnamdi Azikiwe, born there in 1904, who became the country’s first president, and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, born there in 1933, who later led Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War. The piece doesn’t shy away from the contested legacy of the latter, presenting both men’s stories with equal weight and letting readers sit with the coincidence of their shared birthplace.
Culturally, the issue also covers “Ogiame Atuwatse III at Five,” reflecting on five years of the current Olu of Warri’s reign as a statement about culture, unity, and development, and “The Grandeur of Ado-Ekiti’s 2026 Udiroko Festival.” Travel coverage includes “London in October: 7 Unmissable Things to Do,” built around spots like the Victoria and Albert Museum, while health gets a practical turn with “7 Remedies for Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.”
Style and lifestyle round things out with “Contemporary Fashion: The Gen Z Way,” a look at how a younger generation is reshaping everyday style, and “Design with a Point of View,” a home design feature. The Air Peace News section closes the issue with “Air Peace, Barbados Strengthen Ties,” alongside a note that the airline formally refuted an NCAA report it described as inaccurate.
Taken together, September/October’s edition is one of Alice’s more serious outings, willing to sit with loss and hard questions about technology, while still finding room for the festivals, fashion, and destinations the magazine is built on.
