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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Financial institutions often require tangible collateral, leaving intellectual property, already vulnerable to piracy, undervalued as an asset. Compounding this challenge is a knowledge gap.
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If you can cook, you’re already halfway there. According to new research commissioned by Knorr, 88% of Gen Z singles in Nigeria say they find people who enjoy cooking more attractive — ranking it above flashy cars and even gym bodies. In the middle of swipe culture and perfectly curated dating profiles, it turns out […]
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Olive Nwosu is an award-winning Lagos-born and London-based screenwriter and director. In 2019, Troublemaker, her short film featuring non-actors, became the first Igbo-language film to be featured on the Criterion Channel. Two years later, she made Egúngún (Masquerade) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and screened at Sundance Film Festival in 2022. […]
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Conversely, in mainstream Nollywood, there exist two categories of filmmakers : the ones that make films for intellectuals and for the unthinking masses. There’s a pretension among members of both groups that they are different.
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The genre of hip-hop has always carried the intensity of personal messages. Attuned to lyrical precision as no other, its savants have been storytellers as much as they’re musicians. On BLOOD, SWEAT, TEARS & CHAMPAGNE, the UK-based Nigerian rapper Gaiya Moses Obedience, mostly known as Deemoe, delivers a striking ode to the tests that have […]
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South African filmmakers were seen protesting on the streets of Cape Town and Pretoria in late January with simple demands. Under the Save SA Film Jobs banner, South African filmmakers, actors, and industry workers protested against the deepening and entombing crisis that has pushed the South African film sector towards the cliff of collapse. To […]
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The Filmjoint Award 2026 announced the winners of its annual Filmjoint Awards, dedicated to celebration of excellence in short filmmaking locally and internationally. The award ceremony took place at the Alliance Française de Lagos’ cinema hall on the 7th of February 2026. In 2024, Gbenga Adeoti (Managing Director) and Dawn Ntekim-Rex (Programs Director), co-founded the […]
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