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
It is indeed true that men are the biggest benefactors of the patriarchy but the privilege makes them oblivious to the noose it ties around their necks.
11 months ago
Something Sweet is the second short film in the recently released Zikoko Life anthology on YouTube. Written and directed by Dika Ofoma and produced by Blessing Uzzi, the film stars Michelle Dede as Ziora, a divorcée and single mother in her forties who falls in love with Leke (portrayed by Ogranya Jable Osai), a 28-year-old […]
11 months ago
Nigerians are united in their exhibitionist and exaggerative tendencies. The cultural and social conditioning of the Nigerian society makes living a solitary and modest lifestyle impossible. Parties, even intimate ones, must be exaggerated, music must be chaotically high, clothes must carry markings of wealth even if said wearer isn’t wealthy. Thus, public display is celebrated […]
12 months ago
Africa’s thriving entertainment industry has created pathways for aspiring actors to enter the film sector, with initiatives like the MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) leading the charge. Launched by African media giant MultiChoice, MTF nurtures emerging talent through workshops and productions, seamlessly integrating them into the continent’s dynamic film ecosystem. Alongside its subsidiary Africa Magic, MultiChoice […]
12 months ago
In one of Andrea Dworkin’s most provocative critiques of marriage, she offers that the institution of marriage offshoots from the practice of rape, “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only […]
12 months ago
Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo’s Bariga Sugar, an empathetic and thoughtful look into the realities of Nigerian sex workers and sex work, was released in 2016. Dika Ofoma’s A Japa Tale, which crammed conversations around religion, abortion rights, migration, the Nigerian dream and love in its twenty-seven minute timeline, was released in 2023. Korede Azeez’s With Difficulty […]
12 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 make-up and special effects artist, Maryam Ndukwe. Maryam Ndukwe is fuelled by ambition, a trait she describes as hereditary. Growing up […]
12 months ago
Karabo Lediga’s directorial feature-length debut film Sabbatical, is a semi-autobiographical film inspired by a homecoming, after years away. However, in Lediga’s modified retelling, Lesego (Mona Monyane), a successful and ambitious banker has taken her identity and (Clementine Mosimane), is the director’s fictional mother. The film, which recently arrived on Prime Video after a successful world […]
12 months ago
