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Trade by Bata
“Trade by Bata” Review: Biodun Stephen’s Culture-Clash Comedy Has One Brilliant Idea but Doesn’t Know What To Do With It

What Trade by Bata is really staging is a transaction in aspiration: the exchange of…

The Sufferer
The Sufferer | Poem By Obongofon Etuk

I.  The Loner I should laugh the loudest in rooms, I should make laughter à…

A Spark in the Dark
“A Spark in the Dark” Review: Akay Mason’s Melodrama Offers No Insights on Its Subject Matter

A Spark in the Dark is a film for which blindness is primarily a plot…

Sweet Boy
“Sweet Boy” Review: Kuami Eugene Delivers Consistency on New Project

Sweet Boy is an album deeply centred around vocal performance, and on that front, it…

AFRIFF
AFRIFF 2026 Announces Call for Submissions

Under the theme “Frames of the Future: Africa’s Creative Intelligence”, this year’s AFRIFF will build…

AMVCA
Linda Ejiofor, “My Father’s Shadow” Sweep the 2026 AMVCAs: A Quick Breakdown + Full List of Winners

The biggest winners are My Father’s Shadow, which won five awards, including Best Movie, and…

Ernest Jesuyemi
The Poet’s Convenient Martyrdom (A Rejoinder to Ernest Jesuyemi’s “The Wrong Kind of Black Poet”)

What Ernest Jesuyemi genuinely wants is a literary culture capacious enough to hold divergent, even…

Shakira
Shakira and Burna Boy Collaborate on Official 2026 FIFA World Cup Anthem

Shakira announced the collaboration through her social media platforms, with the single expected to serve…

Docubox
Docubox Launches Inaugural Fiction Feature Development Programme

For its inaugural edition, the Lab is open to all genres of fiction films provided…

Met Gala
Met Gala 2026: How African Celebrities Showed Up on Fashion’s Biggest Stage

This year’s theme, “Costume Art”, raised the stakes further, with guests leaning into sculpture, painting,…