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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent

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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2 months ago

Nollywood Romcoms Do Not Reflect Nigeria

7 Predictions For Nigerian Film in 2025

As we look back on the previous year’s releases, debuts, and industry-defining moments in Nigerian Film, it’s time we look forward and embrace what this year might hold for Nigerian Film.  Here’s what and who to keep an eye on as the year continues to take shape. I do not come to you by chance […]

Culture Custodian Editorial Team

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5 months ago

7 Predictions For Nigerian Film in 2025

The Sports Film Genre In New Nollywood 

Nollywood, as an industry deeply rooted in theatrical traditions, has flirted with different genres since its inception, with the most conspicuous being drama and comedy. A News Agency of Nigeria report identifies drama as the leading Nollywood genre of 2023 accounting for 45.5 percent of the top 44 films released in the Nigerian box office […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

The Sports Film Genre In New Nollywood 

Africa’s 2025 Cannes Outing, Wins & Misses

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival wrapped up in grand style on March 24 bestowing limited recognition to African cinema. The most notable acknowledgement went to Nigerian-British director Akinola Davies Jnr’s My Father’s Shadow which received an honorable mention in the Camera d’Or category, recognizing his achievement as a debut filmmaker. However, the Camera d’Or award […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

Africa’s 2025 Cannes Outing, Wins & Misses

“The Yard”: Musa Jefferey David and Isaac Ayodeji Unpacks What it Means To Work in a Nigerian Writers’ Room

Nigerian screenwriters, Musa Jeffrey David and Isaac Ayodeji have probably written some of your favourite TV shows. Think Wura, Chronicles, Refuge, 10th Avenue, and recently The Yard, a 130-episode series currently showing on African Magic Showcase and Showmax. Currently in its 30th episode, the show has elicited responses on social media. The making of the […]

Seyi Lasisi

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3 weeks ago

“The Yard”: Musa Jefferey David and Isaac Ayodeji Unpacks What it Means To Work in a Nigerian Writers’ Room

How Screen Connect is Trying to Connect African Filmmakers with African Audience Across the Continent

When Marete Selvin, from Kenya, Mizero Kabano Yannick from Rwanda, and Cassandra Onwalu from Nigeria, applied for the Some Fine Day Pix and GIZ’s Moving Pictures’ MOVING PICTURES Incubator Programme in 2024, the idea for co-founding Screen Connect, their recently launched Pan-African distribution company hadn’t formed. As filmmakers and individuals already thinking about the distribution […]

Seyi Lasisi

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3 weeks ago

How Screen Connect is Trying to Connect African Filmmakers with African Audience Across the Continent

My Life In Nollywood: Ife Olujuyigbe

Every week, The Culture Custodian grants you an all-access backstage pass into the lives of Nollywood rock stars. You get to learn about their fascinating backgrounds, the behind-the-scenes stories, and more. This episode features writer, producer and director, Ife Olujuyigbe  Ife Olujuyigbe, a multihyphenate, tows interconnected artistic paths. It all began from a childhood that […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

My Life In Nollywood: Ife Olujuyigbe

Is Niyi Akinmolayan The New Sheriff In Town?

In late 2020, a US-based friend visited Niyi Akinmolayan in tears and with complaints after losing fifty million naira over a sham filmmaking deal. She had contracted a man she met on Twitter (now X) to make a film because she thought he was a notable filmmaker in Nigeria based on how much knowledge of […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

Is Niyi Akinmolayan The New Sheriff In Town?

Documenting Nollywood’s Distribution Challenges in Dr Añulika Agina’s Directed and Ojie Imoloane-Led Documentary, ‘Beyond My Nollywood Screen’

Nigerian film exhibitors and distributors have, for decades, been away from media attention. Their effort of making films accessible to Nigerians have largely gone undocumented. In correcting this, Dr Añulika Agina and Ojie Imoloane are hoping to change that with their documentary, Beyond My Nollywood Screen. With financial support from the European Research Council, the […]

Seyi Lasisi

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3 weeks ago

Documenting Nollywood’s Distribution Challenges in Dr Añulika Agina’s Directed and Ojie Imoloane-Led Documentary, ‘Beyond My Nollywood Screen’

Filmhouse Group Leads Conversations on Nollywood At the Nigerian International Film Summit (NIFS)

West Africa’s leading entertainment company, Filmhouse Group, featured prominently at the Nigerian International Film Summit (NIFS) held during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, leading a conversation on Nollywood’s evolving role on the global stage. The session, titled “The Nollywood Conversations: A Deep Dive into Opportunities to Present African Stories for Global Screens,” unpacked the current […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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3 weeks ago

Filmhouse Group Leads Conversations on Nollywood At the Nigerian International Film Summit (NIFS)
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