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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Ben Proudfoot’s The Eyes of Ghana had its world premiere at the documentary section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. The feature-length documentary film is partly a biopic of Chris Hesse, one of Ghana’s veteran filmmaker and Kwame Nkrumah’s personal cameraman and a capsuled history of Ghana’s independence journey, economic and cinema boom and […]
9 months ago
As part of the activities of Ibom Entertainment Week 2025 which was held at Uyo, Akwa-Ibom, the Directors Guild of Nigeria (DGN) celebrated her 25th Anniversary, a milestone in lieu of the previous year. The anniversary celebration was spearheaded by the DGN President Uche Agbo, during which he officially launched the DGN Mobile App. The […]
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In 2016, a propulsive Afro-fusion track titled Gba Gbe E began slithering onto dance floors across the country. To the extent that the song became a party starter, we have Burna Boy’s smooth delivery and Spellz’ masterful production to thank. We would however be remiss if we left out the contributions of the upstart DJ […]
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We used to treat addiction and mental health in separate silos. Imagine going to rehab to get sober, but the deep-seated depression you live with goes unaddressed. Or, you finally reach out for help with your PTSD, only to have your substance use dismissed. It was a fragmented way to care, and it left so […]
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The Guinness World Records has officially announced Hilda Baci, alongside fast-moving consumer goods brand Gino, as the holders of the new record of the largest serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice. Last Friday, Baci, who in 2023 claimed the record for the world’s longest cooking marathon—93 hours and 11 minutes—attempted to set this new record. By […]
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When she left a banking job in 2008 to enter the creative sector, she quickly discovered that her presence in the industry would be overshadowed by her husband’s long-standing reputation. Despite her work as a producer and strategist, she was often introduced simply as “his wife.” Fashugba didn’t like that. That constant erasure made one […]
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The black colonisation of Africa sets the stage for the re-presentation of some of the conditions that fuel the racial tensions experienced abroad. Politics, inclusion, and the politics of inclusion
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Like many who anticipated Joker: Folie à Deux, I was intrigued by the concept behind its title, which is French for “madness of two”. Folie à Deux refers to a rare mental disorder where delusions are “transmitted” from one individual to another. Another definition is “the presence of the same or similar delusional ideas in […]
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