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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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
3 weeks ago
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.
2 months ago
Intentional storytelling are the purposeful creative choices that involve a smooth blend of narrative, aesthetic style and themes in a manner that enhances meaning and overall appeal.
5 months ago
Afolabi Olalekan’s Freedom Way written and produced by Blessing Uzzi, takes a lengthy and laborious 90 minutes to drive home a single point: our lives, as humans and Nigerians, especially, are connected. Uzzi’s script assembles a varied cast to make this point: the co-founders of Easy Go Ride, Themba (Jesse Suntele), Tayo (Ogaranya), and Edi […]
11 months ago
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 […]
1 year ago
When she left a banking job in 2008 to enter the creative sector, she quickly discovered that her presence in the industry would be overshadowed by her husband’s long-standing reputation. Despite her work as a producer and strategist, she was often introduced simply as “his wife.” Fashugba didn’t like that. That constant erasure made one […]
9 months ago
Zamo Mkhwanazihttps directorial debut, Laundry, is inspired by a personal story. In 1954, her maternal grandfather’s laundry business was unlawfully shot down by the apartheid government. It was about six years into the South African apartheid regime and this institutional disinheritance made her maternal grandfather lose his livelihood. This experience provides the autobiographical lens for […]
10 months ago
In its second season, the South African drama series Shaka iLembe adopts a bolder and more defined direction as it delves into the life and legacy of one of the Zulu Kingdom’s most formidable monarchs, Shaka kaSenzangakhona, widely known as Shaka the Zulu or Sigidi. Rising to prominence in the 19th century, Shaka distinguished himself […]
10 months ago
September, globally, is designated as National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. This annual and month-long campaign was kickstarted to encourage research, increase awareness and distribute information that contend with myths and uniformed opinions about sickle cell and sickle cell warriors. Globally, a flurry of educational, entertaining and empowering virtual and physical events are held around these […]
10 months ago
Damien Hauser’s Memories of Princess Mumbi is one of the African films screening at the Centrepiece and TIFF Next Wave Selects section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by the Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker, Hauser’s film is a deep reflection on the love for cinema and filmmaking in an AI-driven world, and conversation on war […]
10 months ago
In 2009, Jenifa, a Yoruba-language comedy-drama film produced by Olatunji Balogun and directed by Muyideen Ayinde, was released, marking the beginning of the Jenifa franchise. The film was led by Funke Akindele, who played the character of Suliat, also known as Jenifa, an uneducated but overambitious village girl who relocates to Lagos where she navigates […]
10 months ago
Every week, The Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rock stars. You get to learn about their fascinating backgrounds, the behind-the-scenes stories, and more. This episode features film editor and post-production supervisor, Martini Akande. The arts have always been dear to Martini Akande’s heart. In secondary school, his […]
10 months ago
Nollywood has always shouldered ideas of morality that are rooted in Nigeria’s social existence, with narrative resolutions aiming for justice and fulfilling some didactic purpose. For the filmmaker, a film is not just a medium of entertainment; it reveals lessons that guide human conduct, exposing both values and vices that are prevalent in a particular […]
10 months ago
