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Obituary: Bisi Silva, godmother of contemporary art from Africa
The art world, locally and internationally, mourns the loss of Bisi Silva, influential curator, founder and artistic director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), a nonprofit art gallery and…
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#Berlinale2019: Of fathers and their sons: Chiwetel Ejiofor’s The Boy who Harnessed the Wind
Editor’s Note: Our in-house critic, Wilfred Okiche, was invited to the 2019 Berlinale Film Festival as part of its Berlinale Talents programme and is sending dispatches from the front lines…
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#Berlinale2019: Books, lies and videotape- Review of The Plagiarist
Director Peter Parlow attempts a deep dive into the creative mind, trying out a series of ideas before settling on a curious comparison of the merits of books versus film…
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#Berlinale2019: Sex and the City: A review of Tamer Jandali’s Easy Love
Editor’s Note: Our in-house critic, Wilfred Okiche, was invited to the 2019 Berlinale Film Festival as part of its Berlinale Talents programme and is sending dispatches from the front lines…
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#IFFR2019Review: Rosamund Pike is terrific in A Private War
Editor’s Note: Our in-house critic, Wilfred Okiche, was invited to the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of its Talents programme and is sending dispatches from the front lines…
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#IFFR2019: Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki is vivid and technically accomplished
Editor’s Note: Our in-house critic, Wilfred Okiche, was invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam and is sending dispatches from the front lines of global film, enjoy. In Wanuri Kahiu’s…
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#IFFR2019Review: Fear and loathing in Ulaa Salim’s Sons of Denmark
Editor’s Note: Our in-house critic, Wilfred Okiche, was invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam and is sending dispatches from the front lines of global film, enjoy. In the feature-length,…
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#IFFR2019Review: Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum is a triumph
Editor's Note: Our in-house critic, Wilfred Okiche, was invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam and is sending dispatches from the front lines of global film, enjoy. In present-day Lebanon,…
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Investigation: Has Enugu State unlocked the model for genuine community development in Nigeria?
Akpugo-Ezedike-modern-market-completed-and-awaiting-commissioning Akpugo-Ezedike-community-modern-market-just-recently-completed Akpugo-Ezedike-modern-market-completed-and-awaiting-commissioning2 Ede-Enu-Edeoballa-community-Girls-secondary-school Gburu-Gburu-cottage-hospital-Ogbozalla-Opi Ede-Enu-Edeoballa-community-Girls-secondary-school3 Gburu-Gburu-cottage-hospital-Ogbozalla-Opi.jpg-3 Gburu-Gburu-cottage-hospital-Ogbozalla-Opi.jpg-2 Ede-Enu-Edeoballa-community-Girls-secondary-school2 Enugu State government’s landmark Visit Every Community (VEC) programme looks to be delivering on its mandate despite several gaps and inconsistencies.…
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Review: Woli Arole takes on Nollywood with ‘The Call’; He doesn’t succeed
For Hollywood’s latest remake of A Star is Born, the titular character, Ally, played by pop star, Lady Gaga has her pivotal, starmaking moment the old-fashioned way, belting out a…
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Review: Enyinna Nwigwe and Bimbo Akintola in dull, nondescript Baby Steps
Enyinna Nwigwe headlines this dramatic comedy about a chronic bachelor whose playboy lifestyle is jolted into reset mode when he wakes up to a baby- the product of one of…
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Profile: How Genevieve Nnaji became Queen of Nollywood (again)
In December 2018, two decades after starting out with a bit part in the crime drama, Most Wanted, Genevieve Nnaji entered yet another phase of her eventful career with a…
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Review: Knock Out Blessing delivers more hits than misses
The prodigious Dare Olaitan announced his arrival in audacious form with the 2017 crime drama Ojukokoro (Greed). A welcome breath of fresh air, Ojukokoro was quite unlike anything that had…
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Review: Up North is big, beautiful and bland
Geography was big in Nollywood in 2018 with films like Lionheart, King of Boys and Kasala looking within to reflect worlds and create narratives that are distinctly local. While the…
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Film Review: Lionheart is the feel-good movie of the year and everyone should see it
Genevieve Nnaji isn’t a fan of the division of the film industry into old and new Nollywood. These boxes and labels, convenient but ultimately far from all-encompassing were employed by…
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Vonne Couture Presents Dudu Collection
Womenswear label, Vonne couture has unveiled its latest collection named ‘Dudu’- which means black in Yoruba language. The creative director, Yvonne Nwosu who poses as her own model for the…
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Film Review: In an industry drowning in cliches; Kasala is a breath of fresh air
In an interesting twist, one of the most refreshing movies to come out of Nollywood in a long time has no big name leading lady attached, isn’t fronted by a…
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Film Review: Ayoola Ayolola is the best thing about If I am President
What better time to put out an old school drama about aspiring for the highest political office in the land than electoral season? As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…
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Review: Chief Daddy is ready to take all your money
You have seen the trailer. It is no spoiler to report that Chief Beecroft (Taiwo Obileye), the character for which EbonyLife Film’s latest extravaganza is named, has just kicked the…
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With “Dead Lions Don’t Roar”, Tolu Akinyemi opts for relatable simplicity
Poetry can be likened to spades, whose ability to dig deep and unearth largely depends on who is handling it. It's fairly obvious, but the fate of a line or…
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Theatre Review: Our Son the Minister is the story of all of us
In 2016, the Beeta Universal Arts Foundation, founded by Bikiya Graham-Douglas, launched the Beeta Playwright Competition to give a voice and create opportunities for emerging writers. Our Son the Minister,…
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King of Boys: An unvarnished look into the seedy underbelly of the Lagos elite
Kemi Adetiba’s King of Boys is a coming of age film and a departure from the mundane theme of comedy prevalent in Nigeria’s movie space. King of Boys is a…
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Film Review: ‘King of Boys’ is everything and nothing you expect
Director Kemi Adetiba is one of Nigeria's experimental auteurs. That much was made clear from the scene that played out at the Sunday night premiere of her hotly anticipated King of…
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Odunlade Adekola’s The Vendor is barely salvaged by a few laughs
Meme king Odunlade Adekola takes his lowbrow shtick to the big screen with The Vendor, a ribald screwball tale of a young man hustling to make ends meet in the…
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‘From Lagos With Love’ had so much material but played out as cheap melodrama
There is no shortage of films- Nollywood, Hollywood and beyond- that trace the dramatic unravelling of the family, nuclear or extended. The larger, the trashier, the better. Cue in the…
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Concert Review: A splendid night with Femi Kuti
After about two months on the road touring Europe and the Americas, Afrobeat’s first son, Femi Kuti and his Positive Force band, Saturday night, brought the groove to a different…
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Fighting Corruption is Dangerous is an interesting retelling of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s legacy
2018 173 pages MIT Press According to Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the global average tenure for a finance minister is two years. In Nigeria, Ngozi…
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Omoni Oboli has done her best work yet on ‘Moms at War’
In Moms at War, the latest collaboration between FilmOne and inkblot productions, box office magnet Omoni Oboli rejoins the team, this time actively involved both on screen and behind the…
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Film Review: Alexandra is a near sterile immigrant hustle story
The Nollywood-diaspora collaborations are pretty much a staple of the film industry. In the last decade, they have become so consistent, they might as well be classified as their own…
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Concert Review: Becoming FalzTheBahdGuy was solid but Falz hasn’t quite arrived yet
On the creative level, Falz’s entire career so far has gone through the three major stages; the climb, the peak and the dip. Every creative pretty much follows this trajectory,…
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- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy
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