The appearance of Tiwa Savage, the queen of Afro-beats, in this new Prime Video movie, "Water and Garri," will undoubtedly captivate Nigerian audiences. In it, the matriarch of afro-beats navigates between homesickness and the sense of sadness and pain from…
Afamefuna movie review: The Igbo apprenticeship system is a community and commercial enterprise model used by the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria. This approach reflects the Igbos' industrial mentality. The Igbo apprenticeship system, also known unofficially as Igba-Boi, is an…
If 'Anikulapo' (2022) by one of Nollywood's famous filmmakers, Kunle Afolayan, was about Saro cheating death by resurrecting the dead, 'Anikulapo: The Rise of the Spectre,' a 6-part Netflix series sequel, is about our anti-hero cheating death for the second…
Franchises are distinguished from other sorts of films by their potential to be memorialised; in the minds of the audience, characters are remembered mostly for the chemistry that exists between them. I can barely remember what happened in a…
Netflix recently acquired the Kannywood film "Mati A Zazzau". It is the first Hausa film to be streamed and picked up by a streaming service. This is an admirable accomplishment for Kannywood, a subset of Nollywood in northern Nigeria. Kannywood's…
I don't gush about how good a Nollywood actor is or how criminally underrated an actor is, but ever since I first saw Ademola Adedoyin play Prince Aderopo, a serial killer in Kunle Afolayan's "October 1st" (2014), even as a…
Since the discovery of crude oil and petroleum in Nigeria in the late 1950s, the oil-producing states in the south-south have been a hotbed of protests, revolts, and dissent, owing primarily to the negligence of Nigerian federal governments and…
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