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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent

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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6 months ago

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

Nollywood Romcoms Do Not Reflect Nigeria

If you’ve been even remotely active online, the words Achalugo and Odogwu have likely crossed your path, either directly or embedded in brands like Piggyvest’s marketing materials. Perhaps you’ve also encountered the lavish praise hailing Love in Every Word as one of 2025’s cinematic masterpieces, or declarations that Omoni Oboli has revolutionized NollyTube. If we […]

Shalom Tewobola

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8 months ago

Nollywood Romcoms Do Not Reflect Nigeria

10 Films To Watch at S16 Film Festival

The Surreal 16 Collective-curated film festival, S16 Film Festival is in its fifth edition and deciding which films to watch, as a festival attendee, is top priority. The festival which has programmed and screened some of the rare-to-find Nigerian and African films is scheduled to hold from 1st to 5th December, 2025. Organized by Abba […]

Seyi Lasisi

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2 weeks ago

10 Films To Watch at S16 Film Festival

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Kolade Mann’s “Ovisa” Laughs At Society Without Minding Its Own Specks 

Ovisa, a satirical drama written by Nwaru Favour Ikechukwu and directed by Korede Mann (Best Director nominee for The FilmJoint Awards 2026) is one of the seven films chosen for The Accelerate Filmmaker Project (AFP) 2024, the others being Loveth Ogbene’s The Boy from the Window, Samuel Ajirebi’s Egbeji, Ashimedua Odiachi’s Mofe, Rotipin Tobiloba’s Purgatory, […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Kolade Mann’s “Ovisa” Laughs At Society Without Minding Its Own Specks 

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Myde Glover’s “Irin Ajo (The Journey)” Embodies The Myth of Reincarnation

Yoruba metaphysics categorizes human existence into at least three cyclic stages: the worlds of the unborn, the living and the ancestors or dead. Soyinka, in his book Myth, Literature and the African World, introduces an additional, less explored fourth realm, which he describes as “the dark continuum of transition” and a home for “the ultimate […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Myde Glover’s “Irin Ajo (The Journey)” Embodies The Myth of Reincarnation

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Loveth Ogbene’s “The Boy From The Window” Situates Love and Solace In Imperfections

With its premise of two youngsters and neighbours finding ways to love each other and share small, beautiful moments despite their individual sufferings, The Boy From The Window shows considerable merit. The story rouses emotions with its portrayal of teenage innocence, desire, suffering and a quiet sense of hope that offers solace in place of […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Loveth Ogbene’s “The Boy From The Window” Situates Love and Solace In Imperfections

The 5th PAO NDCRC : What’s the Utility of Nollywood Panels and Conversations?

The theatre-esque hall at Muson Centre, Onikan hosted Nollywood veterans, professionals and cultural practitioners from 18th to 19th November, 2025, for a two-day conference. Themed From Volume to Value: The Future of the Nigerian Motion Picture Industry in the Digital Age, the conference had industry leaders, creatives, policymakers, guild and professional bodies engaged in warm […]

Seyi Lasisi

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3 weeks ago

The 5th PAO NDCRC : What’s the Utility of Nollywood Panels and Conversations?

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Ella Chikezie’s “In Her Shoes” Is A Short Course on Autism and Struggles of the African Girl Child 

Storytelling in modern African cinema often requires digging deep into sensitive human conditions and lending voices to underrepresented groups. Doing so, the cinema becomes more of an instrument for conscientization and social campaign than entertainment. A few notable examples of this are Tunde Kelani’s Dazzling Mirage (Nigeria) which draws attention to sickle-cell anaemia; Reabetswe Rangaka’s […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

Lagos Fringe Festival 2025: Ella Chikezie’s “In Her Shoes” Is A Short Course on Autism and Struggles of the African Girl Child 
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