I hope that more film festivals start to see the fullness of the African experience. This is because African cinema can be ...

Son of Elvis is a powerful introduction to an artiste with a remarkably broad and expressive artistic vocabulary, while for ...

Nigeria treats football as identity, as emotion, as a source of national pride and national embarrassment. It does not treat ...

The misconception that men cannot be sexually abused, assaulted, or molested by women is entrenched in gender stereotypes ...

In La Maison du Vent, Cameroonian writer-director Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu captures both the tragic cost of African ...

In Dawn is an Open Wound’s first section, the poet persona is a tourist, and the poems read like a travel diary. The first ...

Black Public Media (BPM) has opened submissions for its 2026 Open Call, inviting independent filmmakers to submit ...

Filmmaking that attempts to ignore these rhythms risks distortion; the camera must learn to breathe with them, to acknowledge ...

The idea of becoming a bestseller gives a social—and even psychological—weight to a book. This is purely on the basis of ...

Three Afrocentric films, Nigerian-British filmmaker Tomisin Adepeju’s Lift Me Up, Moroccan filmmaker Meriem Sakrouhi’s Mon ...

Love and Life is a long journey without a clear destination; a film that introduces its emotional coordinates early and then ...

John Chinaka Onyeche has, in Fragments of Peace, demonstrated admirable attentiveness to language and thematic consciousness. However, it is equally important..