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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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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Landline is Dele Doherty’s debut feature film. But, for the filmmaker, it is the culmination of years spent watching films, studying auteur filmmakers, experimenting with friends, watching filmmaking-related reels on Instagram, and searching videos on YouTube, that has culminated in the making of Landline starring Zainab Balogun, Gabriel Afolayan, and Bucci Franklin. Courtesy of his […]
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It is late in the evening when the story begins. We meet a young lady driving in a car, dressed in a puffed-up outfit, her face is adorned while returning from a party. Her car slows down when she sees something of interest on the road. She drops to confirm the corpse of Uncle Fred, […]
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My first encounter with Ema Edosio-Deelen was in her directional debut, Kasala. It’s difficult recalling the year I saw the film, but what I can still recall, however, was feeling seen and represented in the film, as a young adult from Ajegunle. Her character and world building carries a resonance with my immediate environment. Watching […]
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Did you know that there are approximately 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide? Can you imagine all the different ways in which we all use the internet? Obasanjo’s Internet is our interview series where we speak to some of our internet favourites on how they relate to the internet and what it means to them and their […]
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Pop music is decidedly distinct from other genres primarily because it’s as much a sport as it is an art form. Popstars are frequently pitted against each other in online conversations that faintly echo the cavalier spirit of a gladiator match. One star announces a win and rival fanbases congregate in the comments section hurling […]
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Dele Doherty’s Landline is a Prime Video psychological thriller that he wrote, produced, and directed himself. The narrative is structured around the time loop, a device previously employed in Moyinoluwa Ezekiel’s 2024 film The Beads where the protagonist relives a tragic wedding day in a repetitive nightmare. Landline casts Zainab Balogun—who coincidentally portrayed the protagonist […]
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Two years ago, the singer-rapper Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, better known as Mohbad, passed away. The news of his passing united the entire nation in grief and stirred collective ire towards his presumed killers. Naira Marley, the artist’s label boss, and Sam Larry, a socialite with close ties to Marlian Record (both of whom had been […]
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As an expression of human realities, art is demonstrated through a variety of initiatives such as festivals, exhibitions, screenings, and talent and empowerment programmes. In Lagos, a bustling metropolis and the entertainment capital of Africa, there exists a host of such initiatives targeted at representing and projecting the vibrant cultural image and dynamic identities of […]
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