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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In 2025, the release of an album has become a full-blown performance – part film, part circus, part fever dream. It’s no longer enough to simply drop a record; it must arrive dressed in drama, mystery, and frenzied anticipation. The rollout has become an art form. It gives an album a body and a pulse […]
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What happens when a woman’s desire for emotional agency collides with the weight of tradition? Can love, identity and fate co-exist within the confines of cultural expectations? And how far can one go in defying family imposition and patriarchal boundaries? These, and more questions, inform the narrative trajectory of Farmer’s Bride, a feature film written […]
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In the past few weeks, an unlikely influencer has achieved a bizarre kind of internet infamy, one predicated on the shock value of his content as opposed to his capacity for entertainment or any noteworthy skill he might possess. His alias? Mr Downloader. If his moniker conjures images of a scraggly hooded nerd, clacking furtively […]
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When Kamsi Asuzu-Obumselu, CEO and Executive Director of Limitless Club speaks about the burgeoning peer-to-peer mentorship programme, her tone carries the calm conviction of someone who has seen something intangible – connection between people – turn into structure, ritual and belonging. What began as The Roundtable, an experiment in meaningful connection, has become a living […]
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Derrick Emmanuel, known in the music world as Riick, never imagined he’d pursue music professionally. Life, however, had other plans. When his only surviving parent passed away, he turned to music out of necessity, driven by the responsibility of caring for his younger sister. He walked away from football for reasons he’d rather not dwell […]
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On the 11th of October 2025, Travis Scott’s globe-trotting Utopia tour, which has seen him performing in far-flung cities of the world—among them Reading, São Paulo, and Bramham—led him to the 94,000 capacity FNB stadium in South Africa, the largest in Africa. As Travis Scott bounded up the stage, the teeming audience—which, viewed from above, […]
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 13 per cent of adolescents between 10 and 19 years globally have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. These disorders often trigger social withdrawal, causing loneliness and becoming a catalyst for suicide. A WHO report cited by The Guardian also indicates that one in four Nigerians […]
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In 2007, during a visit to his uncle in Gbongan, Osun state, Abdulafiz Opeyemi Shittu spent some time with someone who made dodo-ikire, a local delicacy derived from bananas. He fell in love with it. He noticed that there was a special storage area for unripe bananas until they were ripe and suitable for the […]
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