Art

Digital Piracy in Nigeria: We Need Honest and Accommodating Conversations

The Nigerian literary community has been engaged in an important conversation around piracy, unapproved digitization, accessibility, and distribution of Nigerian and African books. Fortune Amor’s digitization of over 200 African writers’ books belonging to the Heinemann African Writers Series sparked this timely conversation. Nigerian journalist and writer, Molara Wood, and others have rightfully called out […]

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6 months ago

Digital Piracy in Nigeria: We Need Honest and Accommodating Conversations

Akay Mason’s “Red Circle” is a Thoughtful Drama that Doesn’t Add Up

The Yoruba people have a saying: “Sátídé ti ọ dà, àti Jímọ́h láti mọ́.” Although there are different iterations of this saying, what they loosely translate to is that tomorrow’s greatness is foreshadowed in the details of today. This often-recycled axiom captures my thoughts after watching the trailer for Akay Mason’s Red Circle which has […]

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1 year ago

Akay Mason’s “Red Circle” is a Thoughtful Drama that Doesn’t Add Up

Reflections on Kanyin Ajayi’s “Nothing Human”

Kanyin Ajayi’s Nothing Human, the English adaptation of Rien d’humain by the acclaimed French writer Marie NDiaye starring Ade Laoye, Bridget Nkem and ‘Chukwu Martin will be showing at the intimate and cozy hall of Alliance Française on August 2nd and 3rd. Ahead of its premiere, the director/producer, Ajayi invited Culture Custodian to a journalist […]

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1 year ago

Reflections on Kanyin Ajayi’s “Nothing Human”

Ifeanyi Barbara Chidi’s “PLS RT” Looks into Nigerian Kidnapping Figures

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), an alarming 614,937 Nigerians were reportedly murdered under unspecified circumstances and 2,235,954 others kidnapped across the country between May 2023 and April 2024. In this NBS report titled ‘The Crime Experienced and Security Perception Survey (CESPS) 2024′, and based on the surveys conducted between May 2023 and […]

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1 year ago

Ifeanyi Barbara Chidi’s “PLS RT” Looks into Nigerian Kidnapping Figures

“To Kill a Monkey” Shines on the Surface, Stumbles in the Script

Nigerians are united in their exhibitionist and exaggerative tendencies. The cultural and social conditioning of the Nigerian society makes living a solitary and modest lifestyle impossible. Parties, even intimate ones, must be exaggerated, music must be chaotically high, clothes must carry markings of wealth even if said wearer isn’t wealthy. Thus, public display is celebrated […]

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1 year ago

“To Kill a Monkey” Shines on the Surface, Stumbles in the Script

Reflection on A Third Space’s On Classics

Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo’s Bariga Sugar, an empathetic and thoughtful look into the realities of Nigerian sex workers and sex work, was released in 2016. Dika Ofoma’s A Japa Tale, which crammed conversations around religion, abortion rights, migration, the Nigerian dream and love in its twenty-seven minute timeline, was released in 2023. Korede Azeez’s With Difficulty […]

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1 year ago

Reflection on A Third Space’s On Classics

Karabo Lediga Reflects on the Cultural and Revolutionary Questions in “Sabbatical”

Karabo Lediga’s directorial feature-length debut film Sabbatical, is a semi-autobiographical film inspired by a homecoming, after years away. However, in Lediga’s modified retelling, Lesego (Mona Monyane), a successful and ambitious banker has taken her identity and (Clementine Mosimane), is the director’s fictional mother. The film, which recently arrived on Prime Video after a successful world […]

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1 year ago

Karabo Lediga Reflects on the Cultural and Revolutionary Questions in “Sabbatical”
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