What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
6 days ago
What shall it profit a people to lack shame? What does it really profit a nation of over 180 million people to consistently platform and promote individuals with an addiction to humiliation? There comes a time when one must sit back, rest their hands on their head, exhale, and declare that it all doesn’t make […]
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My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
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Aanu Adeoye is a journalist at a major newspaper and author working on his debut nonfiction book about Africa’s emerging geopolitics. Here, he takes us through his use of the internet as both a tool for work and a distraction to be avoided. Who are you? What do you do? Who am I? What a […]
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Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions without being forced or unduly pressured by others.
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After breaking into the global mainstream with her 2023 Billboard Hot 100 hit, People, Cameroonian singer-songwriter Libianca is now at the center of a debate about her artistic direction. Her newest single, Don’t Say Sorry with ZHANGYE, released on May 15, 2026, has already prompted some listeners to call it “too radio-friendly” and “too American […]
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As Told By Ada is a Culture Custodian weekly series exploring the unique and often chaotic experience of navigating life as the oldest daughter in a Nigerian household. Over the course of these mini therapy sessions, we give you a peek into the ups, downs and lingering effects of growing up “the first”. When I […]
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The prestige of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) undoubtedly needs no introduction. No other award platform on the continent has been more committed to celebrating and recognising the efforts and achievements of Africans within the African film and television industry. In the last few years, the cultural significance of the AMVCA has witnessed […]
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From the introductory shots in Dammy Twitch‘s Call of My Life, a compendium of details announced itself like a familiar but distant friend. First, it tells you that this is going to be a well-shot and framed picture. The sonic landscape (from sound design to soundtrack) will inspire admiration. Importantly, the lead character, Soluchi (played […]
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We have been thinking about the magazines that came before, shaped the Nigeria that raised this generation of editors, writers and readers, and that lived on centre tables in living rooms across the country.
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The Game Needs Us is not something we ‘needed.’ But it is something we wouldn’t mind. Dear Sarz & BNXN, the greatest have average days too.
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Lagos-based artist Tunde Owolabi returned with Without Rest: The Crown We Gain, his fourth solo exhibition and perhaps one of his most socially attentive bodies of work yet. Held at No Parking Lagos from April 11 to May 9, 2026, the exhibition brought together sculpture, photography, prints, and drawings in an immersive reflection on labour, […]
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Watching Gingerrr in retrospect, the zero-win AMVCA outcome hardly feels shocking.
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