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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December in Lagos has become something everyone looks forward to every year. Months prior, Lagos is almost serene, defined by the occasional late-night traffic, quiet sidewalks, and the hum of day-to-day bustle. But once the Yuletide hits, the lagoon city transforms into a month-long festival of back-to-back concerts, sold-out events, and daily pop-ups. Socialites, hustlers, […]
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Every week, The Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rock stars. You get to learn about their fascinating backgrounds, the behind-the-scenes stories, and more. This episode features cinematographer, editor and colorist, Emmanuel Igbekele Odihiri. Emmanuel Odihiri grew up in the 90s Ikotun, Lagos, living with his grandmother in […]
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In 2016, Salim Yunusa, the founder of Poetic Wednesdays, was stuck in traffic after a long day of receiving lectures. Nothing was moving and he was in a bad mood. This prompted him to write an untitled short poem bordering on uncertainty. Since he couldn’t find a title and wanted to post on Facebook, he […]
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Following more than a year of relentlessly teasing his sophomore album INDUSTRY MACHINE, on Monday, Odumodublvck announced its release date: Friday, September 26,2025. The announcement video opens with a close-up shot of a palm-sized wooden cross. The camera zooms out to reveal Odumodublvck situated in a junk yard resembling somewhere in Alaba Market. He wears […]
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Grief is a 12-minute short film written by Alex Ross and co-directed with Hannah Clement. Set in modern South Africa, the film explores loss, bereavement, and the struggle to preserve the legacy of a loved one who has passed away. Against a cultural backdrop that discourages speaking ill of the dead while concealing painful truths, […]
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The title “Fata Morgana” describes a form of mirage, an optical illusion that occurs at sea or on land, in which several inverted and upright images seem to be stacked on top of each other in a distorted fashion. It may happen with any form of distantly seen object, such as boats and islands, often […]
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Detour fuses crime drama and romantic comedy in an unusual, ludicrous way that tugs at our attention. The 24-minute short film, written by Mila Nieman and co-directed with Oliver Boje, is set in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It follows a recently estranged couple Michael and Liena who unexpectedly meet in the same […]
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On 24th August, 2002, 26-week-old Emily Mürch was prematurely born through a cesarean section, after which the baby spent 99 days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Over two decades after her birth, the young woman, a South Africa Film Academy intern, has produced and directed 99 Days Too Soon, a short personal documentary […]
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