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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We’re officially at the middle of the year (technically, we’re a smidge past the halfway mark), which is another way of saying we’re at yet another milestone from which we can retrospectively consider the year so far, taking stock of our achievements and lapses—everything from new year resolutions (for those who subscribe to this ritual), […]
11 months ago
The third installation in the ‘Zikoko Life’ YouTube anthology, My Body, God’s Temple presents a tender, yet unflinching portrayal of a young marriage, carefully intertwining purity culture, societal expectations and bodily autonomy to deliver an intimate reflection on a woman’s right to fully know herself. Written and directed by Uzoamaka Power, the film is centered […]
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Windsor, England may be thousands of miles away from Nigeria and other parts of Africa, but the mission of Access Bank UK Polo Day remains firmly rooted in the continent. Held at the prestigious Guards Polo Club, this year’s event once again blended high society, fine fashion, and the elegance of polo, reaching beyond glamour […]
11 months ago
Création Africa is the new digital platform connecting artists, designers, filmmakers, and more across Africa and France. From open calls to funding and training, it’s made for those building the culture.
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It is indeed true that men are the biggest benefactors of the patriarchy but the privilege makes them oblivious to the noose it ties around their necks.
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Something Sweet is the second short film in the recently released Zikoko Life anthology on YouTube. Written and directed by Dika Ofoma and produced by Blessing Uzzi, the film stars Michelle Dede as Ziora, a divorcée and single mother in her forties who falls in love with Leke (portrayed by Ogranya Jable Osai), a 28-year-old […]
11 months ago
Afolabi Olalekan’s Freedom Way written and produced by Blessing Uzzi, takes a lengthy and laborious 90 minutes to drive home a single point: our lives, as humans and Nigerians, especially, are connected. Uzzi’s script assembles a varied cast to make this point: the co-founders of Easy Go Ride, Themba (Jesse Suntele), Tayo (Ogaranya), and Edi […]
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Nigerians are united in their exhibitionist and exaggerative tendencies. The cultural and social conditioning of the Nigerian society makes living a solitary and modest lifestyle impossible. Parties, even intimate ones, must be exaggerated, music must be chaotically high, clothes must carry markings of wealth even if said wearer isn’t wealthy. Thus, public display is celebrated […]
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