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Reviews
November 26, 2020
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Review: Does ‘A Day In The Live: Wizkid’ bring the Starboy closer?

With the Coronavirus pandemic upending traditional music industry structures globally, artists, their management and record labels have had to figure out alternative ways of getting their content out to the fans. The internet has been useful, so have streaming platforms and social networks. Wizkid’s long teased fourth studio album, Made in Lagos arrived smack in... Read More
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Ed Keazor
August 21, 2020
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Ed Keazor Remembers Nigeria’s Forgotten Army in “Company Yaya: Lost African Voices of World War 2”

When powerful nations were plunged into a war and interests clashed, more than half of the world was drawn into the war. The rise of Fascism across Europe put many countries at loggerheads and the continent was engulfed in battle. While the debates went on in Europe and fighting became inevitable, Africans were either busy... Read More
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Aviara
August 21, 2020
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Book Review: Othuke Ominiabohs’ Aviara affirms his place in Nigeria’s literary canon

In 2016’s Odufa, first time author Othuke Ominiabohs spun a disturbing tale of the toxic nature of love and the several ways that people who are supposedly in love turn around and hurt each other. At the center of the narrative, the title character and her paramour, Anthony Mukoro, two feckless souls who by the... Read More
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Omah Lay
July 31, 2020
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EP Review: Omah Lay takes the Burna blueprint and elevates it with ‘Get Layd’

Contemporary Nigerian music witnessed a change of guard from one generation to the next the moment Wizkid’s Holla at your Boy announced him as the next big deal. Prior to that 2Baba, P-square and 9ice had been performing the role of building blocks for an industry that was rediscovering itself after years of dormancy. It... Read More
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RIta Dominic
July 27, 2020
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Film Review: Rita Dominic and Kalu Ikeagwu find their way through a marriage crisis in Light in the Dark

Light in the Dark opens with what may be becoming cinematographer Muhammed Attah Ahmed’s signature flourish. The camera, placed upside down, zooms in on Joke Silva, lying down on a bed. She is in a testy conversation with her daughter Jumoke (Rita Dominic) and as they converse, the camera slowly and deliberately adjusts itself right... Read More
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A pelican of the wilderness
August 6, 2019
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Adora Nnadi reviews Jacqueline Agweh’s A Pelican of the Wilderness

Editors Note:  When Enajite Efemuaye, editor of Farafina Books heralds someone as the next big revelation in wordcraft; you drop everything you’re doing and read. I read Adoara’s review of Jacqueline Agweh’s A Pelican Of The Wilderness, done for a competition, with begrudging respect that someone so young could have such mastery of language and... Read More
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Jagagba
July 28, 2019
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Theatre Review: Forget Game of Thrones, Jagagba is the real deal

The winning play of the second edition of the Bikiya Graham-Douglas run Beeta Universal Arts Foundation playwright competition was staged over the weekend at the Agip recital hall of the Muson centre in Lagos. Emerging from a pool of 348 entries, Jagagba, written by Abdul-Qudus Ibrahim is a timely deconstruction of patriarchal societies that points... Read More
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Katung
June 13, 2019
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Film Review: In Katung Aduwak’s Heaven’s Hell, the rich also cry

If you scored a thousand Naira for every time the f… word was uttered in Heaven’s Hell, the long gestating debut feature length by former reality television star, Katung Aduwak, the end of the film should fetch you a tidy sum. It is the go-to curse word for the self-absorbed upper-class folks who people the... Read More
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Chico Ejiro
June 12, 2019
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Film Review: Chico Ejiro’s Night bus to Lagos is going nowhere

There was a period between the late nineties and early aughts when Chico Ejiro was easily the most influential figure in all of Nollywood. Long before Tyler Perry would arrive with his brand of cheaper films catered to a specific audience, Chico Ejiro, supported by elder brother Zeb made home videos cheap and he made... Read More
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knockout
June 3, 2019
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Film Review: Knockout wants to make you laugh. What’s wrong with that?

It is hard to recall considering today’s fragmented media space but there was a time when Wale Adenuga Productions was at the center of mainstream Nigerian entertainment. With influential titles like Ikebe Super, Papa Ajasco and company and This Life, the studio has been responsible for pushing out prime content across various media platforms since... Read More
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Tade Ogidan
May 27, 2019
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Film Review: Tade Ogidan mastered video, but ‘Gold Statue’ movie shows he is yet to find his cinematic voice

When it comes to Nollywood movies, the name Tade Ogidan is about as iconic as it gets. Since he put a helicopter in an audacious chase scene in the 1996 action thriller, Hostages, Tade Ogidan has been synonymous with a certain amount of quality, making ambitious films miles removed from the average Nollywood output of... Read More
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Nimbe
April 22, 2019
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Film Review: Nimbe assaults you with overt moral lessons, but isn’t that all of Nollywood

The protagonist for which Nimbe: The movie is named after is a high school student growing up somewhere in southwest Nigeria. Nimbe is the kind of character usually ignored by mainstream Nollywood. A teenager from a troubled home who succumbs to addiction to a particular vice while searching for release from the pressures of a... Read More
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Zero Hour
April 21, 2019
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Film Review: Isn’t Nollywood tired of derivative films like ‘Zero Hour’?

Forget everything you saw in Lionheart. When in Nollywood, a young man returns from the United States of America to take control of his late father’s business empire- because God forbid his widowed mother should ever be considered to take on such a responsibility- you can assume that his ride going forwards would be anything... Read More
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4th Republic
April 20, 2019
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Film Review: 4TH Republic is an explosive ride through political Nigeria

Art imitates life in 4th Republic, the twisty political thriller directed by Ishaya Bako and truth is, no fiction is stranger than fact. It has been barely a month that Nigerians went to the polls to run through the motions of electing leaders. As has been the case since Nigeria’s 4th republic commenced, the lengthy,... Read More
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Fat lie
April 1, 2019
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Film Review: See The Big Fat Lie only at your own risk

Another day another insipid Nollywood comedy. And how we’ve come to dread them. This time around Darasen Richards directs Rita Dominic and Blossom Chukwujekwu in a rather mirthless comedy of errors involving a hotel porter who gets himself tangled in a white lie only to find that to sustain the impression created, he has to... Read More
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President
March 25, 2019
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Film review: Mr President doesn’t take itself seriously. You shouldn’t either

No better time than election season to usher in a parody of actual political happenings. Mr President (The Controversial Election) directed by Toka McBaror and produced by Shirley Ann Ede is a satire that puts up a mirror to society and takes numerous shots at everyone from the political class to the regular citizens who... Read More
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Chiwetel
February 17, 2019
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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 of global film, enjoy. In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, the stirring directorial debut by British-Nigerian actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, an interesting moment arrives in... Read More
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Easy Love
February 15, 2019
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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 of global film, enjoy.   Opening the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of this year’s Berlinale, Tamer Jandali’s feature-length debut, Easy Love, is a hybrid documentary-fiction... Read More
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Private War
February 14, 2019
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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 of global film, enjoy. Adapted from a 2012 Vanity Fair long read titled, Marie Colvin’s private war by Marie Brenner, A Private War is the... Read More
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Rafiki
February 6, 2019
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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 sophomore film, the tender romance drama, Rafiki, the idea of two adolescents navigating the same sex attraction brewing between them is almost a normal occurrence.... Read More
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Denmark
February 5, 2019
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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, Sons of Denmark which opened the Tiger Competition at the 2019 International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Danish born director Ulaa Salim considers the rising wave of... Read More
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Capernaum
January 31, 2019
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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, Zain, a street-smart kid is brought into a courtroom, facing charges of stabbing an adult. On interrogation, he reveals he wants to sue his parents.... Read More
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