Bolanle Austen Peter’s House of Ga’a continues in line with the recent stream of Yoruba Period Piece’s in Nollywood. And thankfully it is a welcome addition. House of Ga’a is about the life of the infamous Bashorun Ga’a (Femi [...]
The film “Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti” chronicles the life of its titular character, starting from her early years as the first female student at Abeokuta Grammar School, where she met her future husband, Israel Ransome-Kuti. The narrative then shifts to her [...]
Breath of Life, written and directed by BB Sasore (God Calling, Before 30) is technically a faith based movie about a Mr. Timi Johnson (Wale Ojo) who, for all intents and purposes, loses his religion after losing his family early in life. Many years later [...]
Kayode Kasum’s “Afamefuna: An Nwa Boi Story” stands as the first feature-length cinematic exploration of the ingenious Igbo Apprenticeship System (IAS)—a business framework with experienced owners taking on young male apprentices (referred to as “Nwa [...]
Citation (by Kunle Afolayan) narrates the ordeals faced by a female postgraduate student, Moremi Oluwa (Temi Otedola) who is forced to find a way to deal with an awkward situation of sexual harassment from a popular male lecturer, Prof. Lucien Nd’yara [...]
In a recent movie review, I complained about how nollywood seems to be stuck in the blacks and the whites and how we never explore the greys. These greys are the characters that are neither purely good nor purely bad. The characters whose vices are [...]
Someone once told me that every story is a love story, and in no place has that point been made as clearly as in Izu Ojukwu’s ‘76 (formerly “Lions of 76”). Izu takes a military story and exposes it through the lens of two lovers in [...]
The gift nollywood gave me for Christmas last year was the shot in the GIF below. That was not a fall. That was not an act. That was a dance! That singular scene negated so much concern and disbelief I had for the industry in six small seconds. Thank you [...]
