Film and TV

Bea Wangondu
Sundance 2026: In Conversation with “Kikuyu Land” Directors, Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown

“A system was put out over 100 years ago that is still in play. And…

Jazz Infernal
Sundance 2026: “Jazz Infernal” Is a Sonic Portrait of Diaspora and Legacy

Jazz Infernal is a compact but resonant meditation on grief, migration, and the pressure to…

A Very Dirty Christmas
“A Very Dirty Christmas” Review: Religion and Nollywood’s Soft Censorship

The battle over A Very Dirty Christmas might seem small in the grand scheme of things,…

Lady
Sundance 2026: Olive Nwosu’s “Lady” Weaves Dreams, Trauma, and Chaos into a Gender-Aware Debut

Lady confronts its subjects from the angle of dreams, trauma, and survival within the context…

African films
25 African Films Turning 10 in 2026

Revisiting these 25 African films from 2016, now turning ten in 2026, offers a snapshot…

Colours of Fire
“Colours of Fire” and the Anxiety of Technical Progress

Colours of Fire is crowded with ideas: tribalism, fear-mongering, inherited violence, love as disruption, myth…

Behind The Scenes
“Behind The Scenes” and the Business of Being Funke Akindele

Until the economics of cinema-oriented Nollywood change, films like Behind The Scenes will continue to…

community screenings
What Femi Adebayo’s Community Screenings Reveal About Nollywood’s Search for New Distribution Models

If there’s anything the post-Netflix/Prime Video “exit” has made clear, it is that Nollywood can…

Mister Johnson
​Condescending Benevolence: The Colonial Paradox of “Mister Johnson”

Mister Johnson stages colonial modernity as a cruel pedagogy—the policy of assimilation, one that teaches…

Afrocritik’s 10 Nollywood Projects on YouTube Worth Watching in 2025
Afrocritik’s 10 Nollywood Projects on YouTube Worth Watching in 2025

Afrocritik recognises 10 Nollywood projects on YouTube that were worth watching—and are still worth watching,…