The awards ceremony, which marked the conclusion of AFRIFF’s 15th edition in Lagos, also recognised several other African ...

I became increasingly interested in the fact that when I speak about myself, I am also speaking through people who came ...

Combined with the lower barrier to entry, since African cinema is the point of such festivals rather than a mere interest, ...

In telling our story, I came to understand that my voice carried the memory of a people. This story is mine, yet it belongs ...

What Dear Ajayi needs is a screenplay as disciplined as its images, one willing to stay with its characters long enough to ...

O Profeta understands this economy of desperation, and it understands that the person selling the miracle can be just as ...

Justice Faruck’s “The Loud Silence Between Us” Is A Novel of Noble Ideas and Faulty Execution The Loud Silence Between Us could have been an intimate story about a sheltered girl… ...

Francis Duru deserves to be remembered as a Nigerian actor who gave his working life to the craft, helped shape the industry’s professional ...

The dawn of the modern age in Africa saw its lands being invaded by foreign powers seeking its people and resources. The Transatlantic Slave Trade gave way to the pillages and indignities of the ...

This year, African filmmakers tested the boundaries of filmmaking, deepened the aesthetic and thematic language of African cinema, and restated their claim to a well-deserved space in global cinema.

As 2025 draws to a close, we find ourselves reflecting on the year’s literary events in the short fiction genre—or, perhaps, the lack thereof. Fiction was published widely, yes, yet it feels as though ...