Film And Tv

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

The 10 Best Nigerian Action Films of All Time

What we call Nollywood are works and developments in Nigerian film and television, from the days of home video to the current streaming and cinema era. This corpus includes films across different genres, which blend and project peculiar Nigerian realities with universal trends. One of these popular Nollywood genres, the action film, offers adventurous, thrilling, […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 year ago

The 10 Best Nigerian Action Films of All Time

“This Is Love” Review—Victor Njoku’s Experiential Coverage of Queer Relationships In Nigeria 

On 7th January, 2014, former president of Nigeria Goodluck Ebele Jonathan signed the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2013 (SSMPA), banning and criminalising marriage between persons of the same sex in Nigeria. While society has always frowned at homosexual conduct, the SSMPA formally institutionalised it —with the Act further recommending 10 years imprisonment for people who […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 year ago

“This Is Love” Review—Victor Njoku’s Experiential Coverage of Queer Relationships In Nigeria 

“Fanon”, A Biopic on Afro-Caribbean Activist and Philosopher, Premieres In French Theatres 

The life of famous 20th-century Afro-Caribbean philosopher, psychiatrist, diplomat, scholar, and anti-colonial & civil rights activist Frantz Fanon has been the subject of popular culture representations over the years, including, at least, twice on the screens. In 1997, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, a docudrama named after the Martinican’s historical critique of the same […]

Adedamola Adedayo

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1 year ago

“Fanon”, A Biopic on Afro-Caribbean Activist and Philosopher, Premieres In French Theatres 

What Omoni Oboli’s Intellectual Property Concerns Reveals 

On the night of March 11, 2025, Omoni Oboli‘s Love in Every Word was temporarily removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim by Chinonso Obiora (Skyberry). This wasn’t an isolated incident. On January 10, 2025, another Oboli production, A Different Type of Love, also disappeared from her YouTube channel due to copyright disputes. And […]

Shalom Tewobola

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1 year ago

What Omoni Oboli’s Intellectual Property Concerns Reveals 

“Suky:” An Action Film That Loses to Its Unanswered Questions

The greatest flaw in Suky is its protagonist. For a film driven by vengeance, Suky himself remains frustratingly opaque. His motivations are underdeveloped, his emotional arc flat. We never fully understand what he was doing in the years before his imprisonment or how he truly planned to avenge his father. Even his connection with Simi (Bimbo Ademoye) is underwritten—does he actually care for her, or is she simply a plot device? The film never clarifies.

Shalom Tewobola

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1 year ago

“Suky:” An Action Film That Loses to Its Unanswered Questions
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