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Inside the February 2026 Edition: Global Mobility, a Grammy Long Overdue, and Ekiti’s Big-Screen History
Alice Magazine, the Air Peace in-flight magazine, opens its February 2026 issue with a question that runs through nearly every feature: what does it mean to move freely, whether that’s across borders, across genres, or across time. It’s a wide-ranging issue, part wealth strategy, part music history, part film set diary, but the throughline holds.
The cover story, “Journeys Without Borders: How Optiva Capital Partners Is Shaping Africa’s Travel Future,” makes the case that global mobility, second citizenship, and diversified assets have become the new definition of wealth for Africa’s rising class, and profiles how Optiva Capital Partners is positioning itself at the centre of that shift. It’s a fitting opener for a magazine read almost entirely by people mid-journey.
Chairman Dr. Allen Onyema’s welcome message carries real news alongside the usual pleasantries: Air Peace shifted its regional operations to daytime flights effective February 2, 2026, a move designed to improve connectivity and align regional departures with long-haul onward travel. He also confirms new regional routes in the pipeline to Douala, Libreville, Kinshasa, Conakry, Bamako, and Johannesburg, and details a new bilateral interline agreement with Emirates that opens through-checked baggage and seamless travel across both networks, including new access to Banjul, Dakar, Abidjan, Freetown, and Monrovia via the partnership.
The entertainment pages carry the issue’s emotional high point: “Fela’s Eternal Return: The Grammy, The Rebel, and The Long Memory of Sound,” written by David Edremoda. It covers the Recording Academy’s decision to posthumously award Fela Anikulapo-Kuti the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the Special Merit Awards ceremony on January 31, 2026, ahead of the 68th Annual Grammys, held at the historic Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. The piece treats the honour less as a celebration than a correction, framing it as the industry finally reckoning with an artist who spent his career in open confrontation with power.
That same tension carries into a sharper, more argumentative piece a few pages later: “Is the Grammys Deliberately Shortchanging Nigerian Afrobeats Artistes?” by Chiedu Nnaedozie. The feature digs into South African artist Tyla’s second consecutive Grammy win for Best African Music Performance, this time for “Push 2 Start,” edging out Nigerian heavyweights Davido, Burna Boy, Ayra Starr, and Omah Lay. Rather than questioning Tyla’s talent, the piece interrogates genre politics, asking whether the Grammys are rewarding a more export-ready, Western-legible version of African sound (closer to Amapiano) over the harder-to-package maximalism of Nigerian Afrobeats.
On the Destination side, “Echoes of Thunder: Ekiti, Nollywood, and the Reawakening of the Kiriji War” takes readers behind the scenes of a film production recreating the 19th-century Kiriji War, one of Yorubaland’s longest and bloodiest conflicts, using Ekiti State’s landscape and craftsmanship (down to hand-built warrior props) to bring the history back into public view. It’s paired with lighter travel fare: “Inside London’s Quiet Side: 5 Places That Feel Like Discoveries” and “The New Face of Owerri: 7 New Fun Spots in the Imo State Capital,” both aimed at readers looking past the obvious itinerary.
Health and lifestyle round out the issue with “10 Easy Ways to Quit Smoking… And the Slow, Remarkable Reclamation of Health,” a practical guide framed around long-term payoff rather than willpower alone, and “A Design Dilemma: New Year, New Home?”, a lifestyle feature on whether a fresh year is reason enough for a fresh space. “Self-Love Is the New Sexy!” covers beauty rituals framed around inner wellbeing rather than appearance alone.
Fashion closes strong with “2026 Grammys: When Designer Genius Took Over the Red Carpet,” a recap of the ceremony’s standout looks, tying the issue’s fashion coverage directly back to the same night its music features spend so much time unpacking.
Taken together, February’s edition is one of Alice’s more pointed issues, willing to ask uncomfortable questions about who gets recognised and why, while still making room for the practical (quitting smoking, redesigning a home) and the aspirational (second passports, red carpet fashion) that regular readers expect. Flip through the full February 2026 edition to explore every story in detail, from the Wilshire Ebell Theatre to the hills of Ekiti.
