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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent

In Nigeria, Shame is the Substance of Things Hoped For

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 […]

John Eriomala

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3 months ago

In Nigeria, Shame is the Substance of Things Hoped For

Yomi Adejumo’s “Thicker Than Water” Has A Feeble Plot

Yomi E. Adejumo’s Thicker Than Water is an all-too familiar story. The audience recognizes the bond between Ese (Ada Obi), a journalist and Onome (Bimbo Ademoye), her older sister who has passed away in unclear circumstances. The sisters were super-glue close until Onome left home for personal reasons. A journalist, Ese reluctantly investigates Onome’s death […]

Seyi Lasisi

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10 months ago

Yomi Adejumo’s “Thicker Than Water” Has A Feeble Plot

On “Atonement”, Godwin Finds Grace in the Ruins of Love

Godwin’s debut album Atonement is full, almost orchestral in its composition, its lyricism and the buffet of sound. It feels like a play, a story told in distinct acts –  a theatre of love, conflict, and release. Produced entirely by Berlin trio KitschKrieg, it is a lush and deliberate debut, filled with choral echoes, layered […]

Naomi Ezenwa

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10 months ago

On “Atonement”, Godwin Finds Grace in the Ruins of Love

BSIFF 2025: Zoey Martinson’s “The Fisherman” and the Fragile Balance Between Heritage and Modernity

A dive into the world of The Fisherman reveals comedy at its base. The film carries a social weight and fascinating politics of contrasts, but also possesses a playful, buoyant energy that lightens its thematic gravity. There is a constant clash between primitivism and progressivism, which produces early friction and misunderstanding between the older and […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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10 months ago

BSIFF 2025: Zoey Martinson’s “The Fisherman” and the Fragile Balance Between Heritage and Modernity

Feel The Future: How UDO is Engineering a New Reality for Live Music

The future of live performance isn’t unfolding on a giant festival stage. It’s happening in a dark room somewhere in London, where Nigerian creative technologist and artist Ugochukwu David Ogbuehi, better known as UDO, is quietly reimagining what a concert can be. His latest installation, Fear & Faith II, is bigger than a  show in […]

Naomi Ezenwa

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10 months ago

Feel The Future: How UDO is Engineering a New Reality for Live Music

My Life In Nollywood: Tolu Obanro

Every week, The Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rock stars. You get to learn about their fascinating backgrounds, the behind-the-scenes stories, and more. This episode features film score composer and sound designer, Tolu Obanro. Born in Kwara State, Tolu Obanro spent his formative years between Lokoja, Kogi […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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10 months ago

My Life In Nollywood: Tolu Obanro

When Art Becomes a Conversation 

Against the dark background, her white dress and gele glow. The details accumulate: lipstick stains, white pearls catching light, the fullness of her form, and then her eyes. Those eyes arrest you. They carry an old sadness, the kind that comes from waiting for something that never arrives. This was the image that launched Anthony […]

Shalom Tewobola

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10 months ago

When Art Becomes a Conversation 

Three Key Takeaways From Odumodublvck’s Industry Machine

At the heart of Odumodublvck’s sophomore album, Industry Machine, released in the early hours of Monday, the 6th of October, lies a deceptively simple inquiry: where does one go after checking all the boxes putatively required for a certain level of respect, for ascendancy into “the club,” and still being treated with a degree of […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

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10 months ago

Three Key Takeaways From Odumodublvck’s Industry Machine

Akay Mason’s “Thinline” Dismisses Its own Male Sexual Assault Victim

Watching mainstream Nollywood films and TV series, as Nigerian film critics will attest, is a headache-inducing activity. Film critics watch Nollywood productions with painkillers closely. Ditto the audiences too. This has been the toxic relationship between Nigerian film critics and mainstream Nollywood films. The films reveal filmmakers’ disrespect for cinema and disinterest in the subject […]

Seyi Lasisi

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10 months ago

Akay Mason’s “Thinline” Dismisses Its own Male Sexual Assault Victim
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