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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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6 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

NBO Film Festival: Damien Hauser’s “Memory of Princess Mumbi” Is A Heartwarming Retrofuturist Mockumentary

How much experimentation is too much for a creative mind? For Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser, the answer seems elusive, determined by how effectively ideas are orchestrated. Memory of Princess Mumbi, Hauser’s retro-futuristic film and a co-production between Kenya and Switzerland, embodies this fluidity and abstraction of boundaries in storytelling, bestriding the threshold of fiction and […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 month ago

NBO Film Festival: Damien Hauser’s “Memory of Princess Mumbi” Is A Heartwarming Retrofuturist Mockumentary

Chiderah Uzowulu Wants Black Filmmakers to Know They Can Do Anything

Chiderah Uzowulu embodies what happens when talent, creativity, and relentless determination collide. Though he built his foundation on the basketball court, film has always been his true passion, he was simply waiting for the right moment to step into the spotlight. After earning his engineering degree from the University of Texas, Uzowulu made a bold […]

Shalom Tewobola

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1 month ago

Chiderah Uzowulu Wants Black Filmmakers to Know They Can Do Anything

NBO Film Festival: Chief Nyamweya’s “Uli & Tata’s African Nursery Rhymes” Combines African Folklore with Children’s Programming

Six years ago, when Chief Nyamweya, a Kenyan animator and creative director, became a father, he evolved from making adult-focused graphic novels and crime fiction content to also catering to children’s entertainment. He had published his first graphic novel in 2010 and, together with his team, launched an animation studio about three years later. He […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 month ago

NBO Film Festival: Chief Nyamweya’s “Uli & Tata’s African Nursery Rhymes” Combines African Folklore with Children’s Programming

AFRIFF 2025: Nwamaka Priscilla Chikezie’s “To Adaego With Love” is Deflated by Historical Erasure

The Nigerian military government, led by General Yakubu Gown, in 1970 launched a formal post-civil-war reconciliation policy under the “no victor, no vanquished” slogan. That slogan was formally coordinated in the comprehensive “3Rs” program: Reconciliation, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction. This post-war policy was an attempt to set the tone for national cohesion, retribution and a sense […]

Seyi Lasisi

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1 month ago

AFRIFF 2025: Nwamaka Priscilla Chikezie’s “To Adaego With Love” is Deflated by Historical Erasure
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