Film And Tv

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

Ose Oyamendan’s “MKO” Explains Why Nigerians Are Tired of Hoping

The future now looks bleak to far too many Nigerians, who watch their currency fall, their best and brightest leave, and their leaders promise renewal once more. Hope, which should be a renewable resource, has been spent so often that the people who once carried it now treat it with suspicion. Nigerians are not tired because they have stopped caring. They are tired because they have cared, repeatedly, and been made to pay for it.

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

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17 hours ago

Ose Oyamendan’s “MKO” Explains Why Nigerians Are Tired of Hoping

The Women Behind the Visual World of Mount Zion’s , “Agbara Nla: The Return”

In 1993, Mike Bamiloye wrote and directed Agbara Nla, which became a generational classic within and outside Christian circles. In 2026, the film returns as Agbara Nla: The Return, directed by Damilola Mike-Bamiloye and Joshua “JayMikee” Bamiloye. To craft the visual world, the expertise of Temi Ami-Williams (Costume Designer), Abisoye Omotosho (Special Effects and Make […]

Seyi Lasisi

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7 days ago

The Women Behind the Visual World of Mount Zion’s , “Agbara Nla: The Return”

Ariel Añez Aims for Universal Connection Through Local, Specific Story

When a group of youths attacked a police station in Awasi, a northern province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambicans had just celebrated Peace Day. It was on the 5th of October, 2017. The attack spread to Mocímboa da Praia, where they looted weapons. The ISIS-linked attackers were identified as jihadistes pinning for the gas boom. They […]

Seyi Lasisi

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2 weeks ago

Ariel Añez Aims for Universal Connection Through Local, Specific Story

Jali Film Weekender: The Jali Collective is Creating Space for African Cinema in Edinburgh

In 2025, Tomiwa Folorunso, Isabel Moura Mendes, and Carmen Thompson founded The Jali Collective and Jali Film Weekender. The former is an Edinburgh-based grassroots collective that widens access to African cinema, celebrates, and elevates Black, African, and diaspora stories through film and culture. They achieved this motive through the Jali Film Weekender, which launched its […]

Seyi Lasisi

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2 weeks ago

Jali Film Weekender: The Jali Collective is Creating Space for African Cinema in Edinburgh

Algeria’s “Roqia” Heads to the Oscars After International Festival Run

Algeria has selected Yanis Koussim’s Roqia as its official submission for the International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards, adding another African title to the growing list of films entering the continent’s Oscar race. The 89-minute film marks Koussim’s feature debut and is a co-production between Algeria, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. With […]

Anjola Akinmade

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2 weeks ago

Algeria’s “Roqia” Heads to the Oscars After International Festival Run
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