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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On No Sign Of Weakness, Burna Boy finally peels back his last layer of restraint, exploding with venom aimed at fellow artists, former lovers, fans and haters alike. If I Told Them… was a belated retort to those who doubted him at his ascendence, NSOW reveals his need to confront as unresolved. Burna Boy has […]
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Lagos sells a dream it rarely delivers. People call it Africa’s crown jewel. Government officials speak of housing reforms that will reshape its skylines. A city where ambition soars and fortunes rise, Lagos has mastered the art of selective vision. It sees what it wants: success stories, luxury high-rises, upward economic graphs. But beyond the […]
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The atmosphere was electric at the upscale Ikoyi venue on July 24, 2025. Nigeria’s entertainment heavyweights gathered: industry veterans, journalists, and executives, answering a call from two powerhouses. Inkblot Studios, the first Nigerian production house to partner with Amazon Prime and Netflix, had teamed up with Filmhouse Group, West Africa’s leading cinema and distribution giant. […]
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Last week Shallipopi posted a snippet of a new single, Na So, across his social channels. The monochrome clip is typical. He prances around a studio, flanked by an all-too-eager gaggle who cavort excitedly in the background. The actual song features a brooding melody and a wickedly jaunty beat, redolent of his early work- songs […]
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The Lost Days, produced by Steve Gukas, Dotun Olakunri, and Chioma Ezeani, and directed by Wingonia Ikpi, is a Prime Video family drama that follows Chisom, a successful businesswoman in remission from lymphoma, as she seeks reconciliation with her estranged ex-lover and son. The film stars Ifeoma Fafunwa in her debut film role as Chisom, […]
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Like much of the modern world, Africa is a vibrant tapestry of ideas, each thread offering a unique perspective on life. Crafting a contemporary African story, even for a local creative, extends beyond working within familiar boundaries; it involves navigating diverse cultural and geographical landscapes, capturing the rich, multifaceted African experience while staying rooted in […]
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Every Burna Boy album has come with attendant drama, meta-narratives, and side chatter so riveting and rabble-rousing that they could perhaps serve as grist for a television series. And in a sense, this is already the case. Remember how we collectively mulled over Burna Boy’s seeming fall from grace during his On a Spaceship era. […]
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The Catholic Church has beatified Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, the 26-year-old customs official who was murdered in July 2007, just three months into his new job as a customs officer. He was abducted and brutally murdered in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. His battered body was discovered two days later near a university […]
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