Month: May 2026

Dammy Twitch’s “Call Of My Life” Is A Nigerian Rom com Cut From a Different Cloth – Joseph Jonathan

Call of My Life, written by Uzoamaka Power and directed by Dammy Twitch, is a film that knows this language and has decided, with considerable charm and only occasional uncertainty, to go against it. Power plays Soluchi, a call centre agent whose emotional texture runs at a frequency the city around her has not been calibrated to receive. She’s quirky and high spirited. She spins on the pavement on her way to work. She gives herself completely to whatever she sets her heart on, which in the film’s opening act is Kalu (Zubby Michael), a financially comfortable Igbo businessman whose love language is his debit card

A Woman’s Life: A Review of ‘Still Waters’ by Adam Nyang – Akumbu Uche

In each of these slice-of-life stories, Nyang pays equal attention to her protagonists’ emotional lives and the decisions they make in the light of their social pressures and economic realities. In doing so, she also challenges patriarchal norms, however her critiques are measured. Take for instance, the matter of laabaan, a Wolof marital rite where proof of a bride’s virginity is presented post-consummation. While some like the scholar Marame Gueye frame the practice in sex positive terms, Nyang believes otherwise and uses her protagonist Sainabou, who questions the ceremony’s necessity, as a vehicle to remonstrate it.