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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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
3 weeks ago
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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“Fuji: A Opera” marked a major milestone this year as Fuji Vibrations 2025 delivered its most expansive edition yet, transforming Muri Okunola Park into a vibrant, full-capacity celebration of heritage, community, and the enduring power of Fuji music. Held on December 4, the fifth-anniversary edition drew an impressive 8,421 attendees, reaffirming the event’s reputation as […]
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Every filmmaker has a strategy or medium with which they express their messages. For Daniel Alaka, the creative mind behind About Sarah, 2D animation suffices to capture complex human emotional experiences such as love, infatuation and heartbreak. About Sarah is one of the short films that screened in competition at this year’s edition of S16 […]
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In Swahili, “muganga” refers to a healer, preferably a medical doctor, in this case, Dr Denis Mukwege, a humanitarian and medical practitioner who founded Panzi Hospital where he committed to the treatment of female victims of sexual violence during the armed conflicts of the 1990s in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The biographical drama, Muganga, […]
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If anyone has truly lived in Nigerian television’s engine room, it is Fatimah Binta Gimsay. She has moved through nearly every layer of the industry: from her early days of carrying out production tasks behind the scenes to becoming one of the more distinctive voices today. She started out as a writer’s assistant, learning the […]
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Violence against women constitutes an underreported and underaddressed global phenomenon, with the World Health Organization (WHO) saying that nearly one in three women have experienced intimate partner violence or sexual violence of any kind in their lifetime. These victims are likely to face trauma that could last a lifetime, often struggling to overcome the psychological […]
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Art possesses an undeniable capacity for timelessness, effortlessly straddling multiple eras at once. A literary text, film or piece of music, despite being produced in a contemporary period, may hint at or portray a significant aspect of the history of a person or society. For example, Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of A Yellow Sun and its […]
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Obi Is a Boy introduces us to Obinna, a young man returning home for his mother’s funeral, stepping once more into a house where he has previously been treated as an unwanted presence. His father, retrograde and blinded by his own prejudice, appears to tolerate him only for the duration of the rites, unwilling to […]
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Some of the most compelling stories often emerge directly from real-life experiences. Because they are rooted in actual individual encounters, they tend to be profound, heartfelt and relatable. Such stories can take the form of documentaries, biopics or hybrid film forms that juggle reality with imaginative interpretation. An example is Raoul Peck’s Ernest Cole: Lost […]
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