Jerry Chiemeke

Why The Music Of Johnny Drille Resonates With Nigeria’s Hopeless Romantics

By Jerry Chiemeke   It’s December 30, 2020. A dimly lit studio plays host to…

#Throwback Movie Review: Akin Omotoso’s “The Ghost And The House Of Truth” Is An Emotive Thriller

By Jerry Chiemeke   The closing weeks of any given year are usually associated with…

Movie Review: Niyi Akinmolayan’s “Prophetess” Is Ambitious

By Jerry Chiemeke   In a country like Nigeria that is bedeviled by poverty, unemployment,…

Nollywood And The Need To Pay More Attention To Short Films

By Jerry Chiemeke Less is more. Yes, we hear that very often, but it has…

Nollywood Needs Its Low-Budget Movies. Here Is Why.

By Jerry Chiemeke Before DVDs and blu-ray, there were video CDs, and before those, there…

WHY PETER TOSH, NOT BOB MARLEY, SHOULD BE REGARDED AS JAMAICA’S GREATEST EVER MUSICAL EXPORT

By Jerry Chiemeke   In February 2001, my mother was interred. By the fourth quarter…

DR ALAMS’ ODOGWU EP IS NOT JUST FEEL-GOOD MUSIC, IT’S A REFLECTION OF ARTISTIC GROWTH

By Jerry Chiemeke   It was early 2016, the novelty of the presidential administration had…