The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) of South Africa has officially selected Imran Hamdulay’s The Heart Is a Muscle...
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The Lights, Camera, Africa! (LCA!) Film Festival is marking its revival with a special 10th-anniversary screening of the landmark documentary,...
Lagos-based Afro-dancehall sensation and Davido Music Worldwide (DMW) signee, Mightyyout (pronounced Mighty Yute), has officially released his highly anticipated debut...
Bella Shmurda is peeling back the curtain on the paradox of success with his latest single, “Sanity,” featuring singer Kunmie....
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has been awarded the prestigious ‘Best of Caine’ prize, an honorary award marking the 25th anniversary...
Fresh from seeing one of its homegrown talents shortlisted for a major continental award, Quramo Publishing is preparing to launch...
Worcester is set to host the 10th anniversary edition of the Realtime International Film Festival (RTF), a three-day celebration of...
Young Thug is drawing intense criticism on social media, specifically X, following the release of his latest project, UY SCUTI,...
In contemplating the works of these other portrait photographers one notices, almost immediately, the constant focus on the subject, especially the face or in the case of nudes, the body, as the object of the shoot but there is a sharp shift in portraits by Ike Ude which are, as earlier mentioned, usually full length and defined by a quirky dandification, an almost colouring in of the subject into his background something Ike Ude has explained as coming from his past as a painter.
Lagos, more than any other space in Nollywood, crystallises the contradictions of Nigeria itself. The city promises opportunity yet metes out hardship with the same intensity; it dazzles with its excess while suffocating with its scarcity. To enter Lagos on-screen is to be confronted with the paradoxes that define the nation = ambition and corruption, resilience and fatigue, spectacle and decay.
Peruzzi has cemented his reputation as one of the country’s most gifted songwriters and versatile vocalists. Having written and released...
The Lagos Biennial has announced its landmark publication and fundraising initiative, poised to establish Africa’s next Museum of Contemporary Art....
