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.
2 months ago
While Nollywood’s artistic ambitions have supposedly heightened, they often don’t translate onscreen.
1 month 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.
3 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.
6 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 […]
1 year ago
Nigerian film production company Guguru Studios, and three other African production studios jointly have won a €80,000 grant to produce a musical drama film titled A Dream To Die For. The four winning companies are Driving Park Limited from Ghana, AdomiBridge Studios from Ghana, Togo Films from Togo, and Guguru Studios from Nigeria. Funding for […]
2 years ago
‘Apala Disco’ is a phrase that will evoke different memories for Nigerian music listeners strongly influenced by how old they are. Older Apala enthusiasts will recall Haruna Ishola and the golden age of Apala, thinking back to a time when the genre was an important pillar of Yoruba music culture. Younger listeners will think of […]
2 years ago
It’s a jolly time for audiences of the Nigerian entertainment scene, as MTV Base takes another leap with a new reality show “Ghosted”. A bold and relatable television show, Ghosted captures the raw experiences of individuals who have been suddenly cut off from relationships of all kinds—family, friendships, lovers, and acquaintances. The show offers participants […]
2 years ago
Did you know that there are approximately 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide? Can you imagine all the different ways in which we all use the internet? Obasanjo’s Internet is our interview series where we speak to some of our internet favourites on how they relate to the internet and what it means to them […]
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Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti, mother to Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo, is remembered as one of the most important women in Nigeria’s socio political history. Known for her women rights activism, she championed the Abeokuta Women’s Union and led the protest of thousands of women against the authorities for unreasonable tax rates and poor local representation of women’s […]
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The biopic, a term created from the fusion of two words “biographical” and “picture”, is a film genre that is based on someone of historical, political or religious significance. Just as in the manner of a coming-of-age narrative, the biopic dramatizes the existence of a real person, usually a celebrity entertainer or political figure, spotlighting […]
2 years ago
Nigerian filmmaker and actor Ndy Akan is set to release a new film, Force Empire, across cinemas nationwide. The film spotlights workplace violence and harassment against women in the male-dominated police institution. Nollywood heavyweights Richard Mofe-Damijo (known for The Black Book and Postcards) and Nse Ikpe-Etim (A Tribe Called Judah, A Sunday Affair) will lead […]
2 years ago
Yoruba religion accounts for the existence of at least three worlds: the living which is the abode of humans; the dead, which is the afterlife inhabited by ancestors or souls of the deceased (and may house those who, upon death as despicable humans, metamorphose into evil spirits that can be possessed and controlled at will […]
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