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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The Fire and The Moth Nollywood filmmakers, like their foreign peers, aren’t free from the clutches of influences. Tapping inspiration from various sources, including literature, other films, and cultural narratives, titles like The Matrix (1999) loosely inspired by Ghost in the Shell (1995), Inception (2010) inspired by Paprika (2006) and The Lion King (1994) loosely […]
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In a clip making the rounds on social media, Mr Farooq Oreagba rhapsodizes about how his eldest son, who before the spectacle of last year’s famed Ojude Oba procession had little interest in the time-honored festival, intimated his desire to participate in this year’s edition of the festival. Oreagba is slouched in a chair, his […]
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Nicole Asinugo’s directorial debut short film, God Knows Best is one of the Nigerian films that made history at Cannes Film Festival this year. Anchored on the story of Simi (played with quiet yet forceful relish by Wini Efon in her first lead role), God Knows Best tells the nuanced and layered story of a […]
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The Fire and The Moth is a simple story that highlights the brutal nature of survival, greed and corruption, and consequences for one’s actions. Saba, played by Tayo Faniran (Gangs of Lagos, Ada Omo Daddy), a smuggler, is set to deliver the stolen priceless Ife Bronze Head to his boss Ibrahim who, in turn, must […]
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Much of the pleasure of listening to an Obongjayar project comes from watching the artist slowly unravel like a soap opera’s protagonist. On stage, he’s a frenzied animal, a shaman under the thrall of ancestral spirits, singing and dancing with wild energy. Somehow, his recorded music manages to pack that same urgency, that primal energy […]
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In one particular harrowing clip that has gained virality on social media, students, who had been scheduled to write the English examination of this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), can be seen shuffling around a dimly lit classroom agitatedly, lighting candles to ward off the onslaught of darkness: as of around 7pm […]
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Tsuni is an artist who crafts music from the many sounds and moments that have shaped her. With influences ranging from Hannah Montana to Beyoncé, and Afrobeats artists, her music feels familiar and distinctly hers. When asked to describe her sound in three words, she picked confident, familiar, and distinctive, and it’s easy to hear […]
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