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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent

“Starrgirl”: Ayra Starr Trades Becoming for Being

In Starrgirl, Ayra Starr does not ask you to reconsider Ayra Starr. She assumes you already know who she is and expects you to keep up. The title alone sends listeners a message before they press play. Her first two records were titled around age — 19 & Dangerous introduced a fearless, fast-talking teenager; The […]

Anjola Akinmade

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2 days ago

“Starrgirl”: Ayra Starr Trades Becoming for Being

In Nigeria, Shame is the Substance of Things Hoped For

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 […]

John Eriomala

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3 months ago

In Nigeria, Shame is the Substance of Things Hoped For

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Oliver Boje & Mila Nieman’s “Detour” Experiments Dangerously with Cross-genre Ideas

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 […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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11 months ago

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Oliver Boje & Mila Nieman’s “Detour” Experiments Dangerously with Cross-genre Ideas

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Emily Mürch’s “99 Days Too Soon” Is An Emotional Journey on Premature Birth and Neonatal Care

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 […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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11 months ago

FAME Week Africa Students Film Showcase 2025: Emily Mürch’s “99 Days Too Soon” Is An Emotional Journey on Premature Birth and Neonatal Care

TIFF 2025: Ben Proudfoot’s “The Eyes of Ghana” is a Return to Ghana’s Edited History

Ben Proudfoot’s The Eyes of Ghana had its world premiere at the documentary section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.  The feature-length documentary film is partly a biopic of Chris Hesse, one of Ghana’s veteran filmmaker and Kwame Nkrumah’s personal cameraman and a capsuled history of Ghana’s independence journey, economic and cinema boom and […]

Seyi Lasisi

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11 months ago

TIFF 2025: Ben Proudfoot’s “The Eyes of Ghana” is a Return to Ghana’s Edited History

Hilda Baci’s Critics Are Missing The Point of Her Latest GWR Endeavor

The Guinness World Records has officially announced Hilda Baci, alongside fast-moving consumer goods  brand Gino, as the holders of the new record of the largest serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice. Last Friday, Baci, who in 2023 claimed the record for the world’s longest cooking marathon—93 hours and 11 minutes—attempted to set this new record. By […]

Chibuzo Emmanuel

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11 months ago

Hilda Baci’s Critics Are Missing The Point of Her Latest GWR Endeavor
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