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NBO Film Festival: Neil Sandoz’s “Open Your Eyes” Documentary Underscores The Reparative Effect of Grassroots Sports

With a population of over 250,000 people, Kibera, informally called Kibra, is undoubtedly the largest slum in the city of Nairobi, Kenya, and arguably the largest urban slum in Africa. The settlement emerged in 1918 as an abode for Nubian soldiers in a forest on the outskirts of Nairobi. The forest was originally given to […]

Adedamola Adedayo

11 months ago

Asake’s Tailored Reinvention and the Language of Success

When Asake glided onto the Brooklyn stage for his career-defining Red Bull Symphonic performance — bald, suited, flanked by a 33-piece orchestra — it landed like a declaration of a new self. An artist known for his riotous energy, sleek street style and technicolor dreadlocks bouncing to Sungba, had arrived in a different form: composed, […]

Naomi Ezenwa

11 months ago

AFRIFF 2025: Kalu Oji Discusses the Identity and Cultural Fragmentation in “Paso Faho”

Nigerian-Australian filmmaker, Kalu Oji is a filmmaker whose work explores the themes of identity, family and community. Pasa Faho, his feature directorial work screened at African International Film Festival (AFRIFF) to warm reception. The film, featuring Okey Bakassi and Tyson Palmer as father and son, follows the relationship between Azubuike, an Igbo Nigerian father and […]

Seyi Lasisi

11 months ago

The 68th Grammy Nominations Reflect Nigerian Music’s Declining Position on the Global Stage

On the evening of October 7, 2025, when the The Recording Academy began to issue the first set of nominations for the 68th Grammy Awards, set to take place on Sunday, February 1, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the internet seemed to wait with bated breath as music fans across the world anticipated […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

11 months ago

Show Dem Camp’s “AFRIKA MAGIK” Promises The Magic of Old Nollywood

The rollout for AFRIKA MAGIK, the cheeky, nostalgia-addled title of Show Dem Camp’s 12th studio album, really began in earnest when they posted on X a recreation of a popular meme from a scene in an old Nollywood film in which, in a show of smoldering machismo, actors Jim Iyke and Mike Ezuronye douse each […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

11 months ago

AFRIFF 2025: Few Great Films and Manifold Chaos

The 14th edition of the African International Film Festival (AFRIFF) and 1st edition of the African Film and Content Market (AFCM) commenced on November 2nd and ended on the 8th November, 2025. Themed Rhythms of The Continent: The Afrobeats Film Movement, the festival opened with festivity and the screening of Oluseyi Asurf’s 3 Cold Dishes, […]

Seyi Lasisi

11 months ago

AFRIFF 2025: “The Boy Who Gave”: Allison Precious Emmanuel’s Film is Pedantic about its Lead’s Suffering

In 2008, Segun Ogungbe’s Ibi Giga (loosely translated as high places) was produced. This film which would thrust Ogungbe into public attention was also written, directed, led and produced by him. The film tells the story of Opeyemi, a hardworking but destitute man. Opeyemi does menial jobs and exerts himself but his financial and social […]

Seyi Lasisi

11 months ago

NBO Film Festival: Damien Hauser’s “Memory of Princess Mumbi” Is A Heartwarming Retrofuturist Mockumentary

How much experimentation is too much for a creative mind? For Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser, the answer seems elusive, determined by how effectively ideas are orchestrated. Memory of Princess Mumbi, Hauser’s retro-futuristic film and a co-production between Kenya and Switzerland, embodies this fluidity and abstraction of boundaries in storytelling, bestriding the threshold of fiction and […]

Adedamola Adedayo

11 months ago

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The 68th Grammy Nominations Reflect Nigerian Music’s Declining Position on the Global Stage

Show Dem Camp’s “AFRIKA MAGIK” Promises The Magic of Old Nollywood

AFRIFF 2025: Few Great Films and Manifold Chaos

AFRIFF 2025: “The Boy Who Gave”: Allison Precious Emmanuel’s Film is Pedantic about its Lead’s Suffering

NBO Film Festival: Damien Hauser’s “Memory of Princess Mumbi” Is A Heartwarming Retrofuturist Mockumentary

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