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.
5 days 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.
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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.
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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 […]
12 months ago
Nigerian filmmaker Dika Ofoma, Kenyan director Lydia Matata, and Moroccan filmmaker Kenza Tazi have been selected for the 18th edition of the La Fabrique Cinéma (The Cinema Factory) ahead of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The La Fabrique Cinéma is the Institut français programme that brings first-and second-feature projects from Global South filmmakers to Cannes […]
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The inaugural Critics’ Awards for Africa will take place in the early weeks of the second quarter of 2026.
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Six decades later, African cinema is still in its infancy when it comes to distribution and industry structures. Pioneering African filmmakers, including Ousmane Sembène, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Ola Balogun, Thérèse Bella Mbida, Safi Faye, and others, despite the financial and structural challenges they faced, started making artistically ambitious and politically conscious narratives that will be […]
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The short film tells the story of two women who fall in love, navigating same-sex love in a country with strict laws against homosexuality.
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Tabi is a pop culture critic, humorist, and writer for her Substack newsletter Party’s Over, where she crafts prose, essays, and short stories probing the cognitive dissonance between natural instinct and social conditioning. In this version of Obasanjo’s Internet, she reflects on her day to day Internet habits and the evolution of her relationship with […]
3 months ago
For 12 years, the AMVCA has stood as the preeminent award show in the African film industry since its inception in 2013. Organized by Multichoice, the AMVCA has evolved over the years, but not without some definitional challenges. Yearly, the nomination and award night raises questions and conversations around the AMVCA’s identity crisis, its inability […]
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When Onyekachi Offor’s Baptized by Fire starts, a naive and anxious stoner, Chuks (Chukwuemeka Chuks-Okeke), is conversing with an eager and conniving dealer, Adamu (Riyo David), in the latter’s cramped apartment. Adamu, the sweet-mouthed salesman, convinces Chuks to try out a new smoke recipe. Chuks reluctantly agrees. Minutes after they started exchanging jumbled and trance-like […]
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The Screen in Transit has curated a five-week screening in collaboration with the London Performance Studios. Themed A Taste of Home, the five-week screening will journey through stories from the African continent, devised by filmmaker Ifeoluwa Olutayo and Raphel Famotibe, with free screenings every Wednesday throughout April. Famotibe is a South East London–born artist working […]
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