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 week 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 […]
1 year ago
Like much of the modern world, Africa is a vibrant tapestry of ideas, each thread offering a unique perspective on life. Crafting a contemporary African story, even for a local creative, extends beyond working within familiar boundaries; it involves navigating diverse cultural and geographical landscapes, capturing the rich, multifaceted African experience while staying rooted in […]
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The third installation in the ‘Zikoko Life’ YouTube anthology, My Body, God’s Temple presents a tender, yet unflinching portrayal of a young marriage, carefully intertwining purity culture, societal expectations and bodily autonomy to deliver an intimate reflection on a woman’s right to fully know herself. Written and directed by Uzoamaka Power, the film is centered […]
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In a landmark moment for African entertainment, the world’s first dedicated Nollywood streaming platform KAVA was unveiled on July 24th 2025, ushering in a bold era for Nigeria’s film industry and for African creators everywhere. Nollywood is the second-largest film industry in the world, yet its stories have long been underrepresented on global platforms. As […]
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It is indeed true that men are the biggest benefactors of the patriarchy but the privilege makes them oblivious to the noose it ties around their necks.
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Something Sweet is the second short film in the recently released Zikoko Life anthology on YouTube. Written and directed by Dika Ofoma and produced by Blessing Uzzi, the film stars Michelle Dede as Ziora, a divorcée and single mother in her forties who falls in love with Leke (portrayed by Ogranya Jable Osai), a 28-year-old […]
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Nigerians are united in their exhibitionist and exaggerative tendencies. The cultural and social conditioning of the Nigerian society makes living a solitary and modest lifestyle impossible. Parties, even intimate ones, must be exaggerated, music must be chaotically high, clothes must carry markings of wealth even if said wearer isn’t wealthy. Thus, public display is celebrated […]
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Africa’s thriving entertainment industry has created pathways for aspiring actors to enter the film sector, with initiatives like the MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) leading the charge. Launched by African media giant MultiChoice, MTF nurtures emerging talent through workshops and productions, seamlessly integrating them into the continent’s dynamic film ecosystem. Alongside its subsidiary Africa Magic, MultiChoice […]
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In one of Andrea Dworkin’s most provocative critiques of marriage, she offers that the institution of marriage offshoots from the practice of rape, “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only […]
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