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 […]
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Growing up, hearing elders say it’s impossible to be a man without vices: smoking, drinking, and womanizing, is as regular as the day breaking. From viewing centres, fields, films, songs, public spaces, gatherings, and schools, the truism of that statement follows you like an unrepentant mosquito follows the ear. The popularity of owning a vice, […]
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In 1997, Guinea-born filmmaker Mohamed Camara wrote and directed Dakan, the first Black African feature film to depict homosexuality. Boldly, the film opens with two high school boys, Manga Mamady Mory Camara) and Sory (Aboubacar Touré), making out in the latter’s red convertible. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was invited, curated, […]
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In Culture Custodian’s review of Kenneth Gyang and late Biyi Bandele’s Blood Sisters, Michael Kolawole rightly predicted that the production team would create another series while introducing few actions and characters to the already jumbled screenplay. The new EbonyLife series will appear four years later with Kayode Kasum and Daniel Oriahi co-opted as its directors. […]
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Two Africans are among the selected participants for the inaugural Open Doors Connect Programme, a new initiative by Open Doors, the talent development wing of the Locarno Film Festival. Open Doors recently unveiled the participants and mentors for the programme, which is designed to equip producers, particularly independent filmmakers, with insights into international film markets. Through […]
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On 4 June 2026, the Togolese Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Arts held a two-day workshop to review and operationalize the National Fund for Support of the Film and Audiovisual Industry (FoNSICA). Held under the Minister of Culture, Isaac Tchiakpé, the workshop was to validate the drafted inter-ministerial orders aimed at making this financing mechanism […]
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Nigerian-British filmmaker Simisolaoluwa Akande has been selected for the 2026 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship, joining nine emerging filmmakers from around the world for the year-long artist development programme. Chosen from more than 1,100 applications globally, Akande is the only African filmmaker selected for this year’s cohort, marking another significant moment for African representation […]
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BAFTA-nominated British-Nigerian television screenwriter and producer Yemi Oyefuwa has been named as part of the exclusive 2026 cohort for the European Showrunner Training, a professional development initiative run by the ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln. The European Showrunner Programme was launched in 2022 by the ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln, a German film institution, with vital backing […]
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The Durban FilmMart Institute (DFMI) has announced the lineup of participants for the 19th edition of Talents Durban, taking place during the Durban FilmMart (DFM) in Durban from 9 – 12 October 2026. As the African site of Berlinale Talents, Talents Durban plays a vital role in nurturing emerging African filmmakers, animators, and film critics […]
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