Ini-Abasi Jeffrey

There are many stories that hinge on spiritual superstition that have taken root in the collective mind of Nigerians, variations of urban legends that are passed on — characters, setting, and consequences changing with every iteration. Juju Stories takes three of these kinds of stories and brings them to the screen with a raw grounded energy and a strong sense of place.

Directed by Michael Omonua, C. J. Obasi, and Abba Makama (collectively known as the Surreal 16), this three part feature film

On the 23rd of September every year, the global queer community and its allies celebrates bisexuality awareness day. It’s a day people talk about the bisexuals in our community and the issues that that primarily affect them like bi-erasure and how best we can combat them.

Bisexuality, in the simplest of terms, can be defined as romantic or sexual attraction towards both men and women or more than one gender. It is a diverse sexual orientation within itself and many bisexual people will have def

If there is any genre synonymous with Nollywood filmmaking, it is the romantic comedy. From EbonyLife’s The Wedding Party, and its poorly executed sequel, to the relatively progressive Isoken, Nollywood has churned out film after film about romance in a society that is fixated on marriage as a status symbol and an achievement – especially for women. Now, imagine pairing that with Bollywood’s equal fixation on marriage and their elaborate song and dance routines, the result is the daring crossove

Do you know what it is for a soul to occupy a body? For a thing of immaterial essence to occupy a mortal mould, to take form at the tip of your fingers and curl up when you curl your toes in sleep. Is the soul the shape of the body? Or is it just a formless actuating force giving will to a blob of flesh, nerves and liquid, a kind of core that parameters of mortality cannot fathom?

How then does a soul leave a body? Death, one would say. Maybe because life is a soul’s prison, keeping it bound to

The first scenes of Citation, a Kunle Afolayan feature, show a visibly distressed young lady on the phone with a lecturer telling her he won’t change her grade until she has sex with him. This scene is alternated between angled shots of Obafemi Awolowo University; these are the first of many grand, almost in-your-face shots of the school, one of the most popular universities in Nigeria.

We are then moved to a hotel room where the lecturer has been set up by the boyfriend of the girl in the firs

Late last month, the trailer for Blood and Water was released on Twitter and there was so much excitement regarding an original African series coming to Netflix. Finally, we could consume content created for us and by us, but like all things African, Blood and Water is not everyone’s story. It is a South African teen mystery/drama series that follows the life of Puleng Khumalo – played by Ama Qamata – an intelligent, inquisitive 16-year-old girl who is on a quest to find her long lost sister who