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.
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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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 […]
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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 […]
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Like his debut album’s title—When it Blooms—To Cry a Flood, the title of Nonso Amadi’s latest EP buzzes with dramatic flair. In another world, it’s the title of a tragic film or a deeply stirring painting. In the cover art, we see Nonso Amadi splayed on a glassy ocean. The sun, a tiny orifice of […]
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The narrative of not competing with anyone is a well-worn trope in the music industry. Yemi Alade, however, earnestly embodies this epithet. Since vaulting to superstardom in 2014 with Johnny, a single whose propulsive rhythms, cinematic storytelling, and whimsical video left audiences in a daze, Yemi Alade has occupied a singular position in the industry. […]
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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 […]
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Majini, directed by German filmmaker Joshua Neubert and Tanzanian filmmaker Victor Muhagachi, tells the story of Fari, an aquaphobic boy whose ailing father sends him to sea with his older brother, Danford. As the boy confronts his fears and doubts, he is forced to embrace the reality of his unofficial initiation into adulthood and emerging […]
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While marriage remains a traditional institution even in modern times, many Nigerian cultures have conditioned women to believe they must marry before their “biological clock” runs out. The notion of a biological clock becomes a metaphor for the mounting pressure on women to get married before a socially prescribed age. This tension forms the backbone […]
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Tell It No More, written by Temilolu Fosudo and directed by Chukwu Martin, wastes no time in declaring its intentions. From the opening scene, Darasimi (Martha Ehinome), on her wedding day, succumbs to her mother’s stream of advice on how to be a “proper” wife. The older Yoruba woman insists that patience and submission are […]
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