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British born Nigerian actor David Oyelowo broke the color barrier at the Royal Shakespeare Company with his bravura performance in a production of "Henry VI" before going on to achieve big screen success in a variety of genres. Pre-fame, Oyelowo was seen regularly in British households as a...
From Spike Lee’s sophomore feature “School Daze,” to a Nigerian drama about human trafficking (Kenneth Gyang’s “Òlòtūré”), here is our first list of Black films worth a look that are currently streaming on Netflix. Photo : Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 1. “School...
The result is a week-long massacre of torture, shootings and lynchings that Singleton shows in grisly ways on a scale that had never been done before in movies depicting slavery or its legacy. Survivors, many of them children, fled through the nearby swamps. The official death toll was eigh...
Ojuju comes from the prolific Nollywood film industry, and while it falls on the low end of Nigerian cinema’s budgetary spectrum, it manages to tap into the visceral appeal of zombie films, colored by a steady dose of charismatic local charm. The story is basic, perhaps to a fault. It ...
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When not at his day job, Kwabena stays in the spare bedroom belonging to his friend and cousin Maurice (Demmy Ladipo) and Maurice’s pregnant Nigerian wife Funmi (Rachel Adedeji). There, at night, Kwabena works to get his feature Jamaica Road off the ground. But a few problems keep his...
As a teenager of Nigerian descent, he went to extremes to fit into an all-white and racist neighborhood outside London. Produced by Jonathan Chinn and directed by Ed Perkins, the short earned the top prize at the Sheffield Documentary film fest. Perkins met Walker via an informational ...
Perhaps the British-Nigerian rapper felt the need to drop these hints, because the 19 tracks on Introvert don’t sound like stark, intimate confessionals. Simz partnered with producer Inflo to weave tapestries of lush, cinematic soul, greeting the ears with the reassuring tenderness of a Curtis...
(Gill2016, 6). For example, as explained by Nigerian body positive advocate Temi Aboderin-Alao (Ndeche2017) who aims to ‘empower curvy women’ with her plus size brand, ‘It all starts in the mind. If you’re feeling down about yourself, you’re not going to get confident enough to...