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NollywoodWeek Film Festival
30+ Films Selected for NollywoodWeek Film Festival 2025

The NollywoodWeek Film Festival 2025 programme also includes six world premieres, including After 30, The…

Family Brouhaha
“Family Brouhaha” Review: Femi Adebayo’s Solo Debut Is a Dysfunctional Film About a Dysfunctional Family

In Family Brouhaha, what we have is a group of people who are fundamentally badly-behaved…

Labake Olododo: The Warrior Lord
“Labake Olododo” Review: Biodun Stephen’s Yoruba Epic Is a Gender-Flipped Samson-And-Delilah Narrative Starring Iyabo Ojo

In a time when the indigenous epic genre has begun to feel repetitive and forgettable,…

Labake Olododo: The Warrior Lord
Iyabo Ojo’s “Labake Olododo: The Warrior Lord” Hits Cinemas This March

Prior to the nationwide theatrical release, Labake Olododo: The Warrior Lord will premiere in Lagos…

Ada Ọmọ Daddy
“Ada Ọmọ Daddy” Review: A Dramatic Critique of Deadbeat Culture or A Deadbeat’s Fantasy?

The best that Ada Ọmọ Daddy evokes is anger—anger at the film’s politics, its easy…

“There’s no Permanent Enemy, only Permanent Interests” — Olarotimi Fakunle, Eleniyan of “Gangs of Lagos,” in Conversation with Afrocritik

Keep working hard. No matter what part you get, no matter what role you play,…

future awards africa 2023 - Afrocritik
Nominees for 17th Edition of The Future Awards Africa Unveiled

The list encompasses high achievers across 25 categories. By Helena Olori  The Future Project, organisers…

“Gangs of Lagos” Review: In Jade Osiberu’s Crime Thriller, Pre-Electoral Manipulation, Defeated Dreams, and Friendship Take Center Stage

Gangs of Lagos, like Brotherhood, isn’t fiction. It is a cinematic exploration of our lives…