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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Peller took to TikTok Live, claiming that ‘people don’t like him’ and he’ll just ‘go to two Yoruba states’. No lessons learned. No regard acquired.
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My introduction to Nigerian filmmaker, director, producer, and writer, Ifeoma Chukwuogo was with Bariga Sugar which she made a decade ago. The short film, which is set in a brothel, was made a decade ago and has been described as one of the best Nigerian short films of all time. In 2024, Chukwuogo’s directorial feature […]
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According to the Reykjavik Index for Leadership, Nigeria does not lack acceptance of women leaders. It lacks systems capable of converting that acceptance into economic power, institutional authority, and durable leadership pathways. The question is no longer whether Nigerians are ready for women leaders. It’s whether Nigerian institutions are fit for a society that already is.
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If relevance is greater currency than authenticity, then inevitably more artists will employ whatever gimmick they can to hold on to the limelight.
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Oluwatosin Okedeyi is the founder of Sunset Haven. The private beachfront villa is perched on Lighthouse Beach in Tarkwa Bay. On paper, it is a short-let property. In practice, it is something closer to a philosophy. The space is deliberate and aesthetically considered and designed around the important premise that young Nigerians deserve to exhale.
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What these cases show us is that when a film like Aba Blues chooses a title that claims a city’s identity, it enters into an unwritten social contract with the local community.
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Reminisce, Olamide, and Phyno changed Hip-Hop as we know it with the release of Local Rappers in January 2015. The track, lead single to Reminisce’s second studio album Baba Hafusa, was a New year’s exclusive that few expected. A figurative long kiss goodnight for Nigeria’s already declining English rap scene. It fueled debates both online […]
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Oluwatosin Adentan is a product designer, content creator, and self-proclaimed “noisemaker” who thrives on being boldly present online. Her unfiltered routines—waking to Snapchat/Twitter/Instagram checks, bedtime YouTube scrolling as a coping essential, and quick blocks/mutes for boundary-keeping—capture the internet as a chaotic pleasure hub for community-building (like 2023’s career-shifting discoveries) over disciplined work, with Instagram’s “controlled […]
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