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 […]

Seyi Lasisi

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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 […]

Seyi Lasisi

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1 year ago

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

MALI Art Prize Introduces New Platform for Emerging African Talent

The African art ecosystem is growing and evolving, and the launch of the MALI Art Prize feels very much in step with that movement. Announced today, April 3rd, 2026, the MALI Art Prize introduces a new annual platform focused on artists living and working on the continent. It arrives at a moment when African art […]

Naomi Ezenwa

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5 months ago

MALI Art Prize Introduces New Platform for Emerging African Talent

Why are Africans Not Watching African Cinema?

Six decades later, African cinema is still in its infancy when it comes to distribution and industry structures. Pioneering African filmmakers, including Ousmane Sembène, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Ola Balogun, Thérèse Bella Mbida, Safi Faye, and others, despite the financial and structural challenges they faced, started making artistically ambitious and politically conscious narratives that will be […]

Seyi Lasisi

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5 months ago

Why are Africans Not Watching African Cinema?

Four Thoughts on the 2026 AMVCA Nominations

For 12 years, the AMVCA has stood as the preeminent award show in the African film industry since its inception in 2013. Organized by Multichoice, the AMVCA has evolved over the years, but not without some definitional challenges. Yearly, the nomination and award night raises questions and conversations around the AMVCA’s identity crisis, its inability […]

Seyi Lasisi

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5 months ago

Four Thoughts on the 2026 AMVCA Nominations

Onyekachi Offor’s “Baptized by Fire” : Cinema as Witness

When Onyekachi Offor’s Baptized by Fire starts, a naive and anxious stoner, Chuks (Chukwuemeka Chuks-Okeke), is conversing with an eager and conniving dealer, Adamu (Riyo David), in the latter’s cramped apartment. Adamu, the sweet-mouthed salesman, convinces Chuks to try out a new smoke recipe. Chuks reluctantly agrees. Minutes after they started exchanging jumbled and trance-like […]

Seyi Lasisi

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5 months ago

Onyekachi Offor’s “Baptized by Fire” : Cinema as Witness

Nigerian Cinema Spotlighted at the Taste of Home: African Cinema Series Screening

The Screen in Transit has curated a five-week screening in collaboration with the London Performance Studios. Themed A Taste of Home, the five-week screening will journey through stories from the African continent, devised by filmmaker Ifeoluwa Olutayo and Raphel Famotibe, with free screenings every Wednesday throughout April.  Famotibe is a South East London–born artist working […]

Seyi Lasisi

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5 months ago

Nigerian Cinema Spotlighted at the Taste of Home: African Cinema Series Screening

Zoey Martinson’s “The Fisherman” is Having a Continental Roll Out

Zoey Martinson’s Fisherman will be having a theatrical release in Kenya, Zambia, and Nigeria. The Nigerian theatrical release will be handled by FilmOne Entertainment, and the Kenya and Zambia releases by Century Pictures in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Lusaka.  The Fisherman follows Atta Oko, a retired Ghanaian fisherman who teams up with a talking fish and […]

Seyi Lasisi

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5 months ago

Zoey Martinson’s “The Fisherman” is Having a Continental Roll Out
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