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Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

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Isoken: Notes on Feminism, Marriage and Contrived Standards of Perfection

Isoken: Notes on Feminism, Marriage and Contrived Standards of Perfection

‘One minute you’re a star student and the next, you feel like you failed at some life exam.’   ******************************************************  In her directorial debut, Osiberu explores the trouble with socio-cultural expectations and loving as one chooses. Dakore Akande plays Isoken, a successful 34-year old woman, who happens to be unmarried; much to her mother’s chagrin. […]

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7 years ago

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Isoken: Notes on Feminism, Marriage and Contrived Standards of Perfection

‘One minute you’re a star student and the next, you feel like you failed at some life exam.’   ******************************************************  In her directorial debut, Osiberu explores the trouble with socio-cultural expectations and loving as one chooses. Dakore Akande plays Isoken, a successful 34-year old woman, who happens to be unmarried; much to her mother’s chagrin. […]

Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

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7 years ago

Isoken: Notes on Feminism, Marriage and Contrived Standards of Perfection

Happiness is Sometimes a Mad Dream.

The loss of a parent is a common enough thing, but the loss of a child is an unimaginable grief. In Roti, Kunle Afolayan explores this trauma, against a backdrop of traditional religious belief. By casting his own son as Roti (around whom the entire story is centred), Afolayan intentionally – or perhaps not – adds […]

Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

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7 years ago

Happiness is Sometimes a Mad Dream.

Homecoming Series #10

On: moving home, sexual agency, politics, poverty and the complexity that constitutes a nation. Since moving back home to Nigeria, I have learned and lost. I learn everyday. Yet, right until my last year at University, I never believed I would come to think of Nigeria as home. I was in the United Kingdom to […]

Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

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9 years ago

Homecoming Series #10

Nne’mo

He was gone and weeks passed and he had taken and claimed her heart we grew thin but I had her love; it took the place of bread. And then my mother tired of tears and slowly strength returned to her smile, to her words and to her eyes. I was tiny but I remember: […]

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10 years ago

Nne’mo