Features and Essays

streaming
Streaming Africa: Predicting the Growth and Adoption of Online Video Platforms Across African Markets (2026–2031)

Future growth in Africa’s video streaming market will likely be more reliant on centralised, ecosystem-driven…

film incubators
How Film Incubators Are Transforming Talent Development, Financing and Market Access in African Cinema

Film incubators offer intensive programmes designed to help directors, producers, screenwriters and other designated film…

Nigerian Literature
The Endless Work of Culture Positioning: The Challenge for Nigerian Literature

We must not only question the failures of our literary space, but we must also…

Slave Trade
Recognition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a Crime Against Humanity Should Lead to Repair

No form of reparations can ever fully compensate for the gravity of the transatlantic slave…

Afrobeats
The Paternity Test of Afrobeats

Afrobeats is the polar opposite of Afrobeat, musically and philosophically. Which raises the only question…

Sef Adeola
An Artist of the Times: A Retrospective Review of Sef Adeola

Sef Adeola taps into a tradition well-honed and long maintained, leaving the viewer with no…

KFCB
KFCB’s Notice and The Problem With The Film and Stage Plays Act

In Kenya, where press freedom is delicate, often contingent on political and economic conditions, the…

South Sudan
Why the Crisis in South Sudan Does Not Need Another “Peace Agreement”

South Sudan should redirect peace investment from national elite bargains to community-led processes. By Jack…

beguiling beauty
Beguiling Beauty

What appears beautiful within one communal framework may overwhelm, confuse, or even repel another—not because…

spirituality
Nollywood and African Spirituality: The Demonisation of a Continent’s Tradition

The problem with Nollywood was never that it showed the difficult dimensions of traditional practice.…