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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Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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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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Without screenwriters, there will be no stories made into film. The growth of Nollywood over the years is largely due to improvements in storytelling and other technical aspects of production. From developing an idea to creating plausible scenarios and building characters, Nollywood screenwriters lay the foundation for our stories in film and television, positioning the […]
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Did you know that there are approximately 4.66 billion active Internet users worldwide? Can you imagine all the different ways in which we all use the internet? Obasanjo’s Internet is our interview series where we speak to some of our Internet favorites on how they relate to the Internet and what it means to them […]
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Gen Zs want to stand with a cultural shift, by championing authenticity and the freedom to be one’s true self and this one individual is capturing the heart of many Nigerians one video at a time. Tobe Ugeh popularly known as tobeszn is slowly becoming Nigeria’s sweetheart. Tobe, a content creator based in Lagos, Nigeria […]
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Yosa has become one of the most exciting and in-demand fixtures in the Lagos night scene. In January, the BBC tapped him for his Africollective mix. In April, he played a Boiler Room set, alongside a pantheon of preternatural talents, including Bloody Civilian, Odunsi, and Odumodublvck. Earlier this month, he played at Rema’s Lagos listening […]
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By Lucas Ledwaba It’s early December, yet the farms’ landscape in Onverwacht, near Polokwane in Limpopo, northeast South Africa, is a dull brown and dry. Red dust rises into the sky as a hot wind sweeps in the late morning. Usually, the land looks green at this time of the year, but the rains […]
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Rema has long been a master at subversion; his work delights in a fusion of, sometimes disparate, sounds. He pulls from a sweep of existing influences, subjects them to his unique spin and conjures music that feels beamed in from an alternate universe. On his eponymous debut EP, he riffs on traditional Afropop, flirting with […]
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In 2016, TikTok made its debut, but it was until 2020 that the app truly earned its place in Silicon Valley. Cut off from the outside world, we were forced to soothe our boredom another way. Our phones became our opioids and TikTok benefitted the most. The pandemic was truly the platform’s propeller. But it […]
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Nollywood, one of the cultural exports of Nigeria, perennially mirrors the country’s social, economic, religious and political realities. Amongst these representations is the portrayal and regurgitation of age-old beliefs, such as patriarchy and the practice of magic and witchcraft. These are particularly conspicuous in early Nollywood adventure, crime thriller and money ritual films, such as […]
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