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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The Nigerian and African pre-colonial and colonial past is a space of continuous contest, trauma, nostalgia and pride. Colonialism enforced a brutal separation from personal, cultural, geographical and national identity. The cultural and spiritual life and identity of British colonies, like Nigeria, was forced to unfavourably exist and contest with British religion, culture, values and […]
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Daresha Kyi’s inspiring feature-length documentary, Love, Joy & Power: Tools For Liberation, spotlights the activities of Black Voters Matter (BVM), a non-profit movement championing empowerment and voter engagement in African-American communities. Founded in 2016 by LaTosha Brown and Cliff Albright, BVM is a US-based organization that promotes grassroots democracy by mobilizing Black people to engage […]
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When the massacred EndSARS protesters stepped out on October 20, 2020, they weren’t aware that five years later a Goethe-Institute-funded film would be made in their memory. They didn’t know the late President Muhammadu Buhari, other government executives and military officials would deny their internationally-broadcast murders. They also weren’t aware that Nigerian musicians, filmmakers, artists […]
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Leonardo Da Vinci once observed, “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” When Omoni Oboli released Love in Every Word seven months ago, she likely didn’t anticipate it becoming a cultural phenomenon. Yet the film amassed nearly 30 million views on YouTube, sparked engagement across social media platforms, and embedded itself into […]
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When Blaqbonez released ACL, most people expected another round of clever wordplay and ego flexing. Instead, they got something closer to an exposé. At the end of the song’s visualizer, a series of messages appeared on screen – a stream of unhinged texts from OdumoduBlvck, sent over months, filled with violent threats and invasive commentary. […]
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Khaid, born Sulaimon Shekoni Solomon, presents a paradox. Preternaturally adept at shapeshifting, at shedding old sounds in favor of new ones, at straddling multiple genres with dexterity and aplomb, he’s at once exciting and opaque. After all, who really is the man who’s able to seamlessly slip between roles and personas? In 444, a three-track […]
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Genoveva Umeh, who had her breakout moment in 2022, continues to solidify her status as one of Nollywood’s most promising talents. In her latest role, the award-winning actor stars as Derin, a young bride taken hostage in The Herd (directed by Daniel Etim Effiong), a tense thriller that explores the human cost of insecurity in […]
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The internet caught fire when a shaky video of Regina Daniels – one of Nollywood’s most recognisable faces – appeared online, her voice cracking as she accused her husband, Senator Ned Nwoko, of domestic violence. In the clip, she was distraught, surrounded by people trying to restrain and calm her. “Ned sent thugs,” she shouted, […]
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