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TIFF 2026
Ten African Productions Feature In TIFF 2026 Lineup

Ten African productions have been selected for the programme of the 51st edition of the…

Nollywood
For How Long Can We Sustain This Thing of Ours?: On Bootstrapping and the Current Iteration of Nollywood

Nollywood filmmakers have proven their capacity for innovation under constraint, time and again, but there…

justice
Justice Needs an Audience: How Nigeria Turned Punishment Into Content

Once punishment becomes something to be watched rather than merely witnessed, the question is no…

Sarra Ryma
MIFF 2026: In Conversation with Sarra Ryma on Migration, Love, and “What Do the Maknines Dream Of”

“I think cinema has a responsibility to look for the human being behind the law,…

workshop
The Workshop and the Invention of the Contemporary Reader

Yet what survives these intellectual revolutions within workshop culture, I believe, is rarely their philosophical…

African cinema
African Cinema’s Long Road to Freedom

African cinema can be regional, sure, just like any other cinema. But it is also…

The Almajiri
“The Almajiri” Review: Jammal Ibrahim’s Debut Asks Difficult Questions About Education, Faith, and Northern Nigeria’s Future

Perhaps The Almajiri’s greatest achievement is that it refuses simplistic answers to deeply complicated questions.…

Nollywood
How Contemporary Nollywood Uses Humour to Both Expose and Excuse the Politics of Marriage

Nollywood is mostly at its best when it deploys humour to laugh at retrograde values…

FIFA Forward Enterprise
CAF’s Non-Decision on FIFA Forward Enterprise Fits a Pattern

CAF’s reluctance to pick a fight concerning FIFA Forward Enterprise looks less like deference and…