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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Once again, a date is set. The air is thick with anticipation as Nollywood filmmaker Kunle Afolayan announces the return of Aníkúlápó: Rise of the Spectre, a Netflix Yoruba epic fantasy series, on January 30th, 2026. The franchise, which began with a 2022 pilot titled Aníkúlápó, established the presence of Saro, a young man on […]
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To understand a people, one must understand the stories they tell about themselves and the world they live in. These vivid tales of those who came before us are a vessel through which we can understand something of their character. The mythology of our forefathers reveals their explanations for events found in nature, while establishing […]
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2025 has been a year filled with cinematic gems in Nollywood. Films arrived as responses to history and violence, while experimenting with memory and form. Across cinemas, festivals, and streaming platforms, Nigerian filmmakers pushed genre and scale, while still circling the same enduring question: how can authentic stories be told in Nigeria? It was a […]
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As last year ground to a halt, and music critics and fans of Afropop, in their usual fashion, began to take stock of the year, by way of tweets and essays and vociferous debates, a rare consensus emerged: the genre was in a state of flux; old, hackneyed sounds were giving way to more experimental, […]
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How To Build A Library, a Kenyan documentary produced and directed by Maia Lekow and Christopher King, chronicles the transformation of Nairobi’s historic McMillan Memorial Library from its status as a colonial legacy into an all-inclusive public space with provisions that cater to general interests. The feature-length documentary follows the journey of author Shiro Koinange […]
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In a Culture Custodian essay titled A Capsuled History of Indie Filmmaking in Nigeria and Alternative Screening Spaces, an attempt was made to track how, over the past two decades, Nigerian independent filmmakers and critics have sought alternative means, through guerilla-inclined activities and movements, to show alternative, avant-garde and art-conscious Nigerian and non-Nigerian titles. These […]
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On December 5, 2025, Netflix announced it had agreed to acquire Warner Bros., including HBO, in a transaction valued at approximately $82.7 billion in enterprise value. The deal brings together Netflix’s global streaming dominance with Warner Bros.’ century-long legacy of storytelling, including franchises like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Wizard of Oz, and the […]
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Within the first few minutes of a film, you can often tell whether it holds promise and is worth your time. Certain cues reveal its potential early on, and The Covenant is one such Nollywood production. It follows Dagogo (Gideon Okeke) an ex-soldier that embarks on a mission to find his brother Celestine (Zubby Michael), […]
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