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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Nigeria is almost synonymous with Christmas at this point, largely because of the Detty December machinery, which has become shorthand for an entire season: the months-long homecoming stretch that turns Lagos into a non-stop carousel of concerts, raves, art shows, and reunions. But as more events crowd the calendar and the mainstream options start to […]
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Detty December has officially begun. On November 26, media editors, cultural reporters, influencers and industry insiders gathered in Nomaada Lagos, Victoria Island for an intimate press cocktail hosted by Nigerian Breweries Plc. The event marked the official unveiling of “Legendary Christmas,” the company’s culture-defining festive agenda for 2025. The event marked the official unveiling of […]
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Auracle, the title of Shallipopi’s imminent third studio album, due for release on the 5th of December, 2025, is the latest in an increasing line of titles that foreground Shallipopi’s tendency for whimsy. Consider 2024’s Shakespopi, a portmanteau of Shakespeare and Shallipopi. In the lead-up to the album, he was the subject of heated debate […]
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A certain recalcitrance is what makes Tems especially compelling. In moments when she tackles fraught subjects, when she’s seemingly backed in a corner, whether by a tumultuous love situation or by the machinations of malevolent forces, we hear her voice take on an ecclesiastical tone. Swooping and swelling, her powerful voice subdues the production with […]
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In 2020, Wizkid released Essence featuring Tems, the fourth single off his Made in Lagos album. One year later, the remix featuring Tems and Justin Bieber followed. That song is sitting as Wizkid’s most-streamed record, first song with a lead Nigerian act to crack the hallowed Billboard Hot 100 and has gathered lots of accolades […]
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The International Journalism Handbook describes truth as a “judgment that accurately describes, or corresponds with, the way the world actually is.” From a media and journalistic perspective, “truth” is generally defined as the “best obtainable version of the truth” based on verifiable facts and rigorous reporting standards. Thus, telling the truth, reporting it and distributing […]
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Last week, an about-to-be-wed woman shared a vlog from what should have been an untouchable day, her wedding morning. In the footage, her face is luminous, glowing with that specific radiance that belongs only to brides, anticipation mixed with certainty, nerves dissolved in joy. But the internet had other plans. She had committed a grave […]
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Ovisa, a satirical drama written by Nwaru Favour Ikechukwu and directed by Korede Mann (Best Director nominee for The FilmJoint Awards 2026) is one of the seven films chosen for The Accelerate Filmmaker Project (AFP) 2024, the others being Loveth Ogbene’s The Boy from the Window, Samuel Ajirebi’s Egbeji, Ashimedua Odiachi’s Mofe, Rotipin Tobiloba’s Purgatory, […]
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