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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent

Akay Mason’s “Red Circle” is a Thoughtful Drama that Doesn’t Add Up

The Yoruba people have a saying: “Sátídé ti ọ dà, àti Jímọ́h láti mọ́.” Although there are different iterations of this saying, what they loosely translate to is that tomorrow’s greatness is foreshadowed in the details of today. This often-recycled axiom captures my thoughts after watching the trailer for Akay Mason’s Red Circle which has […]

Seyi Lasisi

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7 months ago

Akay Mason’s “Red Circle” is a Thoughtful Drama that Doesn’t Add Up

Nollywood Romcoms Do Not Reflect Nigeria

If you’ve been even remotely active online, the words Achalugo and Odogwu have likely crossed your path, either directly or embedded in brands like Piggyvest’s marketing materials. Perhaps you’ve also encountered the lavish praise hailing Love in Every Word as one of 2025’s cinematic masterpieces, or declarations that Omoni Oboli has revolutionized NollyTube. If we […]

Shalom Tewobola

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8 months ago

Nollywood Romcoms Do Not Reflect Nigeria

The Best Nollywood Films of 2025

2025 has been a year filled with cinematic gems in Nollywood. Films arrived as responses to history and violence, while experimenting with memory and form. Across cinemas, festivals, and streaming platforms, Nigerian filmmakers pushed genre and scale, while still circling the same enduring question: how can authentic stories be told in Nigeria? It was a […]

Shalom Tewobola

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1 day ago

The Best Nollywood Films of 2025

“The Fix”: How Moses Mojeokwu is Sparking a Necessary Conversation in Nollywood

In a cinematic landscape frequently defined by auditory excess, melodrama and spectacle, director and cinematographer Moses Mojeokwu offers a sophisticated counter-narrative: the deafening impact of silence. If the current Nollywood landscape is characterized by the grandiose epics, colorful costumes and dialogue that explains rather than suggests, Moses Mojeokwu is focusing his lens deeper, passionately committed […]

Amber Asuni

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2 weeks ago

“The Fix”: How Moses Mojeokwu is Sparking a Necessary Conversation in Nollywood

Towards A Reimagination of Kenya: In Conversation with Maia Lekow and Christopher King on “How To Build A Library”

How To Build A Library, a Kenyan documentary produced and directed by Maia Lekow and Christopher King, chronicles the transformation of Nairobi’s historic McMillan Memorial Library from its status as a colonial legacy into an all-inclusive public space with provisions that cater to general interests. The feature-length documentary follows the journey of author Shiro Koinange […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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2 weeks ago

Towards A Reimagination of Kenya: In Conversation with Maia Lekow and Christopher King on “How To Build A Library”

The Èko Short Session and the Thriving Nigerian Film Culture

In a Culture Custodian essay titled A Capsuled History of Indie Filmmaking in Nigeria and Alternative Screening Spaces, an attempt was made to track how, over the past two decades, Nigerian independent filmmakers and critics have sought alternative means, through guerilla-inclined activities and movements, to show alternative, avant-garde and art-conscious Nigerian and non-Nigerian titles. These […]

Seyi Lasisi

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2 weeks ago

The Èko Short Session and the Thriving Nigerian Film Culture

Dimeji Ajibola’s “The Covenant” Is Ambitious But Convoluted

Within the first few minutes of a film, you can often tell whether it holds promise and is worth your time. Certain cues reveal its potential early on, and The Covenant is one such Nollywood production. It follows Dagogo (Gideon Okeke) an ex-soldier that embarks on a mission to find his brother Celestine (Zubby Michael), […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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2 weeks ago

Dimeji Ajibola’s “The Covenant” Is Ambitious But Convoluted

S16 Film Festival 2025: Rete Poki’s “Traces of The Sun” Confronts Institutionalised Performances of Love

African societies are popular for their communal arrangements where people are bound together in close-knit units such as family, peer groups and religious gatherings. Within such systems, duties are expected and responsibilities are distributed, and the very understanding of love itself emanates from one’s commitment to these realities. This is why, love, for many of […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

S16 Film Festival 2025: Rete Poki’s “Traces of The Sun” Confronts Institutionalised Performances of Love
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