Vivian Nneka Nwajiaku

NollyTube
Nollywood Needs NollyTube, But Does NollyTube Need Our Brains to Be Turned Off?

Nollywood needs NollyTube, regardless of the merits and demerits, or the sustainability of YouTube as…

Labake Olododo: The Warrior Lord
“Labake Olododo” Review: Biodun Stephen’s Yoruba Epic Is a Gender-Flipped Samson-And-Delilah Narrative Starring Iyabo Ojo

In a time when the indigenous epic genre has begun to feel repetitive and forgettable,…

Finding Me
“Finding Me” Review: Funke Akindele’s Mistitled Dramedy Struggles With an Identity Crisis

Finding Me does not know what it wants to be. Its tone is chaotic, the…

Suky
“Suky” Review: Ola Cardoso’s Prison-Set, Revenge-Themed Sports Drama Is Tepid

As a prison film, Suky is unmoving; as a sports film, it is uninspiring; and…

AMVCA
The Annual AMVCA’s Category Problem: Should TV Productions Be Competing with Films?

If the AMVCA insists on recognising achievement in television, then it’s time to recognise that…

Love, Olaitan
“Love, Olaitan” Review: Moyosore Akinsete’s Short Film Is a Mesmerising Portrait of Love and Loss

Love, Olaitan is a treatise on the bond between father and daughter, but more broadly,…

Moyosore Akinsete
In Conversation: Moyosore Akinsete Talks “Love, Olaitan”, Growing Into Filmmaking, and the Fear of Loss

“I hope I still have a full life that influences how I make films. I…

Blackout
“Blackout” Review: Okechukwu Oku’s Psychological Thriller Is Confident in Its Vision

Blackout might not be entirely plausible, but it still very much feels like a film…

Love Lockdown
“Love Lockdown” Review: Lyndsey F. Efejuku’s Erotic Lockdown Romance Wants to Say Something About Love

Love Lockdown is an attractive material that wants to say a few things about the…

Tarella: Princess of the Nile
“Tarella: Princess of the Nile” Review: A Nollywood Cinderella Reimagining With Too Little Imagination

Everything about Tarella takes you out of whatever world it wants to place you in,…