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

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.

Naomi Ezenwa

2 months ago

Best Nollywood Films of 2026, So Far

While Nollywood’s artistic ambitions have supposedly heightened, they often don’t translate onscreen.

Seyi Lasisi

1 month ago

“My Father’s Shadow”: Analysing the Identity Crisis of a Nigerian and African Title

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.

Seyi Lasisi

3 months ago

Intentional Storytelling and Black Consciousness in Kunle Afolayan’s “The Figurine” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”

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.

Adedamola Adedayo

6 months ago

Afolabi Olalekan’s “Freedom Way” Fails to Aspire Beyond Reiteration and Lamentation

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 […]

Seyi Lasisi

1 year ago

Nnamdi Kanaga’s Memoir “Onwuchekwa: Death Waits…” Highlights His Existential And Artistic Ties With Tragedy

On April 19th, 2014, during the Easter celebrations, Nnamdi Kanaga received an invitation to grief after he got a call informing him that one of his brothers, Peter, a university freshman at the time, had drowned. Six years after his initial bereavement, Kanaga lost his father. The psychological impact of these experiences seem to weigh […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

“Landline”: Dele Doherty’s Timeloop Films Skillfully Evades Providing Answers

On a psychological level, the film, like other timeloop-prone films, exploits the place of decisions, learning, choices and effects of taking steps in human’s daily life and experiences.

Seyi Lasisi

1 year ago

“Meet The Khumalos” —A Virtuosic Gesture of Humor- Weathered Romance

Romance, across African cultures, does not thrive independently or solely on love gestures between the partners involved. Its longevity, as South African producer-director Jayan Moodley makes us believe in Meet The Khumalos, is often strongly tied to family allegiances. Becoming engaged as a couple and getting married without parental consent is considered abominable to most […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

The Problem With Hollywood’s Africa

Even high-profile music projects like Beyoncé’s Black Is King, despite its visual splendor, fall into the trap of cultural oversimplification. While the production aims to celebrate African heritage, it inadvertently reinforces a romanticized vision that flattens the continent’s complexities.

Shalom Tewobola

1 year ago

Onyinye Odokoro is Still Nursing Nollywood Patients Through Her Performances

The celebrity-esque attention she received during this period aside, it was at this moment that the thought of being an actor subconsciously trickled into her mind. This subconscious decision and instincts would guide her choice of extra-curricular activities.

Seyi Lasisi

1 year ago

Nemsia Studios Announces Three Films For 2025 NollywoodWeek Film Festival

Nemsia Studios, the production company behind Breath of Life and A Green Fever, will unveil three films at the upcoming NollywoodWeek Film Festival in Paris, France, this May. The selected titles are After 30 (screening 8th May), Soft Love (screening 10th May) and The Fire and The Moth (screening 11th May). This development marks an […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

The Campaign For A Vibrant Short Film Market in Africa

When Thomas Edison, assisted by William Dickson, invented a machine he named the kinetoscope in 19th-century America, he became the progenitor of the earliest known motion picture transmitter. The device allowed its viewer, one at a time, to see, for a rapid second, through a peephole, a strip of film bereft of audio. By 1895, […]

Adedamola Adedayo

1 year ago

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What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?

Best Nollywood Films of 2026, So Far

“My Father’s Shadow”: Analysing the Identity Crisis of a Nigerian and African Title

Intentional Storytelling and Black Consciousness in Kunle Afolayan’s “The Figurine” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”

Afolabi Olalekan’s “Freedom Way” Fails to Aspire Beyond Reiteration and Lamentation

Nnamdi Kanaga’s Memoir “Onwuchekwa: Death Waits…” Highlights His Existential And Artistic Ties With Tragedy

Nollywood Romcoms Do Not Reflect Nigeria

“Landline”: Dele Doherty’s Timeloop Films Skillfully Evades Providing Answers

“Meet The Khumalos” —A Virtuosic Gesture of Humor- Weathered Romance

The Problem With Hollywood’s Africa

Onyinye Odokoro is Still Nursing Nollywood Patients Through Her Performances

Nemsia Studios Announces Three Films For 2025 NollywoodWeek Film Festival

The Campaign For A Vibrant Short Film Market in Africa

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