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.
1 month ago
While Nollywood’s artistic ambitions have supposedly heightened, they often don’t translate onscreen.
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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 […]
12 months ago
On 18th to 19th November, 2025, the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), under the leadership of Husseini Shaibu, held the 5th edition of the Peace Anyiam-Osigwe Nigeria Digital Content Regulation Conference (NDCRC) to “chart the course for the future of Nigeria’s motion picture industry global competitiveness.” Themed “From Volume to Value: The Future […]
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As a Lagosian, you learn quickly that Lagos and its characters are persistent and uncaring intruders. From fellow passengers that invite themselves into your phone conversation, the familiar and strange voices that throw unsolicited advice about your choice of clothing, the conversation-deprived cab driver that breaks through your stoic exterior, to neighbors that splatter decibel-high […]
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One of the most enduring myths Nigerians tell themselves is that family is always worth every sacrifice. We are raised on stories of duty and responsibility. The eldest child must provide. The successful sibling must send money home. The relative who has escaped poverty must return with enough resources to pull everyone else along. In […]
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Famed Mami Wata director C.J “Fiery” Obasi has announced his next feature project. The director is set to produce, direct, and co-write The Boy Who Runs, a biopic based on the life of the Ugandan athlete Julius Achon. Obasi will be co-writing the screenplay with Kirimi Kiage and Teddy Gitau, Kudi Maradzika as executive producer, […]
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In her famous 1969 interview, American composer and Jazz artist Nina Simone famously said that an artist’s duty is to reflect the times. Art, in its truest form, must translate society’s struggles and realities for the citizens not in a God-esque, omniscient manner and language but in a questioning, reflective, and meditative tone and framing. […]
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Unless you’ve been living completely off-grid, there has been no escaping Call of My Life since its release in May. From a mysterious proposal at a Johnny Drille concert that sent social media into detective mode, to celebrity watch parties, blind-date activations, surprise fan calls, and enough online conversation to make the film impossible to […]
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Showmax launched in South Africa on 19 August 2015 as one of the continent’s early serious attempts to build a streaming platform tailored for African audiences with the ambition to compete globally. After its rollout across multiple African markets in 2016, Nigeria—arguably one of the continent’s most influential media economies by scale, output and cultural […]
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After a successful international film festival journey and an international theatrical distribution across U.S., Canada, UK, and Australia/New Zealand, Damien Hauser’s ground-breaking sci-fi Memory Of Princess Mumbi will have a theatrical run across Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania from August to September 2026. In 2025, Hauser’s film made history as the first Kenyan film […]
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