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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

Meet the Filmmaker Behind “Nolly Babes”: The Love Letter to Classic Nollywood

Nigerian-American filmmaker Anu Bamidele is the creative force behind Nolly Babes, a short film that blends nostalgia with social commentary. Drawing from the distinctive aesthetics and storytelling traditions that made Nollywood a cultural phenomenon, Nolly Babes reimagines the genre with a contemporary lens. The film follows a struggling actress and her two ambitious friends as […]

Shalom Tewobola

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1 year ago

Meet the Filmmaker Behind “Nolly Babes”: The Love Letter to Classic Nollywood

Inside Nova Frontier Film Festival’s New Era at Harlem Stage

For nearly a decade, The Nova Frontier Film Festival has been illuminating screens with voices often left in the shadows of mainstream cinema. Founded by visionary filmmakers Billy Frank from the West Indies and Lydia Darly from Guadeloupe, this cultural cornerstone was born from a recognition of the glaring absence of authentic storytelling from the […]

Shalom Tewobola

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1 year ago

Inside Nova Frontier Film Festival’s New Era at Harlem Stage

“Over The Bridge”: Tolu Ajayi’s Corporate Drama is Grounded in Unified Vision

Great stories aren’t the sole building block of great films. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, Boon Joon Ho’s Parasite, Celine Song’s Past Lives, Ema Edosio-Deelen’s Kasala!, Damilola Orimogunje’s For Maria Ebun Pataki and a host of others aren’t great films because they tell great stories, what […]

Seyi Lasisi

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1 year ago

“Over The Bridge”: Tolu Ajayi’s Corporate Drama is Grounded in Unified Vision

The Sports Film Genre In New Nollywood 

Nollywood, as an industry deeply rooted in theatrical traditions, has flirted with different genres since its inception, with the most conspicuous being drama and comedy. A News Agency of Nigeria report identifies drama as the leading Nollywood genre of 2023 accounting for 45.5 percent of the top 44 films released in the Nigerian box office […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 year ago

The Sports Film Genre In New Nollywood 

Africa’s 2025 Cannes Outing, Wins & Misses

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival wrapped up in grand style on March 24 bestowing limited recognition to African cinema. The most notable acknowledgement went to Nigerian-British director Akinola Davies Jnr’s My Father’s Shadow which received an honorable mention in the Camera d’Or category, recognizing his achievement as a debut filmmaker. However, the Camera d’Or award […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 year ago

Africa’s 2025 Cannes Outing, Wins & Misses

“The Yard”: Musa Jefferey David and Isaac Ayodeji Unpacks What it Means To Work in a Nigerian Writers’ Room

Nigerian screenwriters, Musa Jeffrey David and Isaac Ayodeji have probably written some of your favourite TV shows. Think Wura, Chronicles, Refuge, 10th Avenue, and recently The Yard, a 130-episode series currently showing on African Magic Showcase and Showmax. Currently in its 30th episode, the show has elicited responses on social media. The making of the […]

Seyi Lasisi

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1 year ago

“The Yard”: Musa Jefferey David and Isaac Ayodeji Unpacks What it Means To Work in a Nigerian Writers’ Room

How Screen Connect is Trying to Connect African Filmmakers with African Audience Across the Continent

When Marete Selvin, from Kenya, Mizero Kabano Yannick from Rwanda, and Cassandra Onwalu from Nigeria, applied for the Some Fine Day Pix and GIZ’s Moving Pictures’ MOVING PICTURES Incubator Programme in 2024, the idea for co-founding Screen Connect, their recently launched Pan-African distribution company hadn’t formed. As filmmakers and individuals already thinking about the distribution […]

Seyi Lasisi

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1 year ago

How Screen Connect is Trying to Connect African Filmmakers with African Audience Across the Continent

Why Do We Still Blame Victims?

A visit to a Lagos spa became a harrowing ordeal when a woman alleged she had been sexually assaulted by the spa’s male therapist. She described multiple inappropriate touches during the session. Yet the spa’s first response, captured in a now-viral voice note from the owner, was chillingly dismissive: “These things happen at a massage.”   […]

Shalom Tewobola

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1 year ago

Why Do We Still Blame Victims?
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