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How a Random Hashtag Birthed Kano International Poetry Festival

In 2016, Salim Yunusa, the founder of Poetic Wednesdays, was stuck in traffic after a long day of receiving lectures. Nothing was moving and he was in a bad mood. This prompted him to write an untitled short poem bordering on uncertainty. Since he couldn’t find a title and wanted to post on Facebook, he […]

Seyi Lasisi

1 year ago

Will Odumodublvck’s Industry Machine Live Up To Its Hype?

Following more than a year of relentlessly teasing his sophomore album INDUSTRY MACHINE, on Monday, Odumodublvck announced its release date: Friday, September 26,2025. The announcement video opens with a close-up shot of a palm-sized wooden cross. The camera zooms out to reveal Odumodublvck situated in a junk yard resembling somewhere in Alaba Market. He wears […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

1 year ago

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Alex Ross and Hannah Clement’s “Grief” Confronts Loss and Survival

Grief is a 12-minute short film written by Alex Ross and co-directed with Hannah Clement. Set in modern South Africa, the film explores loss, bereavement, and the struggle to preserve the legacy of a loved one who has passed away. Against a cultural backdrop that discourages speaking ill of the dead while concealing painful truths, […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Corey Ashton and Kariska Kotze’s “Fata Morgana” Dazzles With Surrealist Motif

The title “Fata Morgana” describes a form of mirage, an optical illusion that occurs at sea or on land, in which several inverted and upright images seem to be stacked on top of each other in a distorted fashion. It may happen with any form of distantly seen object, such as boats and islands, often […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Oliver Boje & Mila Nieman’s “Detour” Experiments Dangerously with Cross-genre Ideas

Detour fuses crime drama and romantic comedy in an unusual, ludicrous way that tugs at our attention. The 24-minute short film, written by Mila Nieman and co-directed with Oliver Boje, is set in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It follows a recently estranged couple Michael and Liena who unexpectedly meet in the same […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Emily Mürch’s “99 Days Too Soon” Is An Emotional Journey on Premature Birth and Neonatal Care

On 24th August, 2002, 26-week-old Emily Mürch was prematurely born through a cesarean section, after which the baby spent 99 days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Over two decades after her birth, the young woman, a South Africa Film Academy intern, has produced and directed 99 Days Too Soon, a short personal documentary […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

TIFF 2025: Ben Proudfoot’s “The Eyes of Ghana” is a Return to Ghana’s Edited History

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 […]

Seyi Lasisi

1 year ago

The Fight For Structure and Opportunity In The Directors Guild of Nigeria (DGN)

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 […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

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FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Alex Ross and Hannah Clement’s “Grief” Confronts Loss and Survival

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Corey Ashton and Kariska Kotze’s “Fata Morgana” Dazzles With Surrealist Motif

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Oliver Boje & Mila Nieman’s “Detour” Experiments Dangerously with Cross-genre Ideas

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Emily Mürch’s “99 Days Too Soon” Is An Emotional Journey on Premature Birth and Neonatal Care

TIFF 2025: Ben Proudfoot’s “The Eyes of Ghana” is a Return to Ghana’s Edited History

The Fight For Structure and Opportunity In The Directors Guild of Nigeria (DGN)

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