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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Stories that are based on cultural history will always find an audience. For sheer nostalgia or a sense of belonging, the modern world craves a place in the past; and that’s always achievable through ties with historical film productions. Both parts of Lísàbí pay their dues to the historical figure, a leader that is crucial […]
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Conrad Onyango, bird story agency By rights, Abdullahi Bulle should be in a banking hall making financial transactions and providing financial advice to banking clients. Instead, he’s seated at his desk at Nuria Books, in Nairobi’s Central Business District, advising would-be authors and book buyers, many of whom are buying Nuria’s books online, for […]
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Every week, The Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rock stars. You get to learn about their fascinating backgrounds, the behind-the-scenes stories, and more. This episode features independent filmmaker, cinematographer and screenwriter, John Chizoba Vincent. John Chizoba Vincent’s first love was music. As a child growing up in […]
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Bonface Orucho, bird story agency Ghana’s introduction of visa-free travel for all African passport holders is the latest shot in the arm for Africa’s push toward seamless cross-border travel and trade integration. According to Henry Osabutey, a Ghanaian human rights, peace and conflict scholar and a Global Goodwill Ambassador of the SDGs by the Global […]
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The King of Boys (KOB) franchise will return in December this year for its third installment, King of Boys: The Beginning of the End. A social media post from the award-winning filmmaker Kemi Adetiba, revealed a video call with Sola Sobowale, the lead actress of the series, teasing a reunion. KOB was first released in […]
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For three years, Femi Adebayo and his production company Euphoria 360 have been on the top of their game. It began with King of Thieves (Ageshinkole) in 2022, a narrative built around a deity-like traditional scoundrel and bandit that is demystified as the karma of an age-old communal mischief. King of Thieves began showing in […]
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Martini Akande is no stranger to capturing the rhythm and ecological essence of a city through his virtuosic editing and assembling of footage and images. Think back to 2018 when he edited Taiwo Egunjobi’s In Ibadan, a romantic gesture to both editor and director’s city of birth. Intimately aware of the supposedly lukewarm rhythm of […]
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In the center of a metaphorical boxing ring, three Nollywood filmmakers step into the spotlight: Funke Akindele, Toyin Abraham, and Jade Osiberu. Akindele steps forward with her tried-and-true champion, Everybody Loves Jenifa, a franchise that has consistently won the hearts of Nigerian cinema enthusiasts. Toyin Abraham counters with Alakada: Bad and Boujiee. And completing the […]
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