The Evolution of the Yoruba Demon in Nollywood
January 1, 2026 .
Essay, Essays, Nollywood
Today, the Yoruba Demon is not merely a meme born from online banter. He has become a recurring, sometimes overused, fixture in co...
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"African works constitute books, movies,
and stories by black storytellers and
multidisciplinary artists"
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Top reviews and blog posts
March 16, 2023 .
One thing I cannot wrap my head around is why children get flogged for lack of payment of school fees; I will understand this prac...
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September 12, 2025 .
African Literature
In Some Angels Don’t See God, Ever Obi has crafted a work that lingers in memory, in feeling, and in the difficult but neces...
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November 12, 2023 .
africanliterature
In these tales, women are portrayed as clever and tricky individuals, while men’s descent into madness is often a response t...
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April 15, 2025 .
africanliterature, feminism
Dream Count isn’t particularly a happy one. It didn’t evoke hope in me, but it felt real, grounding, and even a little scary ...
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August 5, 2022 .
agirlisabodyofwater, jennifernansubugamakumbi
The language is impeccable, and I totally recommend this book without any reservations and with all the gods in my village backing...
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July 14, 2026 .
lolashoneyin, thesecretlivesofbabasegiswives
They had a tradition of earning armchairs in the house. This meant that no wife had a comfortable seat. You were not entitled to o...
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Excerpts, interviews, releases and events
January 1, 2026 .
Essay, Essays, Nollywood
Today, the Yoruba Demon is not merely a meme born from online banter. He has become a recurring, sometimes overused, fixture in co...
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January 1, 2026 .
Nollywood
Where Love Lives is a story of sisterhood, fire-forged friendships, living in your own truth, and the everyday struggles of upper-...
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November 26, 2025 .
Nollywood
Àjosepò is a beautiful movie that will make you laugh out loud. Don’t take it seriously because it doesn’t take itself seriously. ...
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November 6, 2025 .
Essays, Netflix, Nollywood, Opinions
The journey from Old Nollywood to New Nollywood is about the evolution of culture, creativity, and how Nigerians tell their own st...
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August 14, 2025 .
Nollywood
To Kill a Monkey explores themes of mental health, desperation, and moral decadence from multiple perspectives, which I appreciate...
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July 20, 2025 .
Lists, Nollywood
In this article, I give you twelve memorable Nollywood characters who stood out in the portrayal of their respective on-screen cha...
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July 20, 2025 .
Nollywood, Opinions
If you won’t watch Nigerian movies for the sake of sentiment, then perhaps, you may be swayed to watch them based on hard fa...
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April 26, 2025 .
Netflix, Nollywood
Something Like Gold, miss or hit? I can’t really say, but the sexual tension between the characters and the happy ever after...
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Read essays, deep critiques, and analyses of African art, dynamics, ideology, and philosophy.
July 23, 2026 .
African Literature
Akwaeke Emezi zeichnet sich besonders dadurch aus, vielschichtige und moralisch komplexe Figuren zu erschaffen, und Little Rot bil...
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July 22, 2026 .
African Literature
When confronted with evil, some individuals will go to any length to protect themselves and their loved ones by blurring the lines...
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June 23, 2026 .
African Literature, Reviews
The title itself is a plea, a lamentation, a bucket of memories tired of the cycle. A question. An anger. An act of giving up and ...
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June 4, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review
The Parlour Wife is short and you could finish it in an afternoon. The writing is also easy to read and unpretentious.
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May 26, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review, Family Trauma
Plot-wise, it was well thought out. No unnecessary gaps, the central theme was clear from the jump. Oyinkan builds tension steadil...
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May 21, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review
For a collection of short stories, Niq Mhlongo manages to give his characters depth in a few pages/sentences.
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May 22, 2026 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Itohan had travelled to Juk to retrieve Ebuka’s badly mangled body and returned it to his old parents in their village in Imo Stat...
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November 19, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.
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November 10, 2025 .
Excerpt
In fact, on the morning of my birthday, just after we had broken up, I had spent time in the hotel begging someone else to love me...
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November 7, 2025 .
Anthology, Excerpt, Narrative Landscape
But he walked out the door and said he would go, by foot, if necessary, to Afghanistan, to kill the infidels who were bombing Musl...
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November 5, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Those hours waiting for her mother to return were spent in a state of inertia; she wouldn’t have been able to say what she had don...
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November 3, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt, Middle Grade
By the time you get this, I will be far away. It is cowardly, I know, but I cannot see your faces and walk away. Please forgive me...
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