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"
Tyrant
Top reviews and blog posts
November 21, 2024 .
akefestival, nnediokorafor
Nnedi Okorafor found the calling to be a writer of the spectacular and the fantastic after she wrote her first ever story in the p...
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February 19, 2022 .
africanliterature, black, Book review, British Nigerian, lizziedamilolablackburn, Nigerian, Self growth, yinkawhereisyourhuzband
It was a light, easy, and mildly entertaining novel. The type of novel that you can read, be satisfied with and then absolutely fo...
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July 10, 2023 .
africanliterature
This book is, first and foremost, for women. It is an elegy to the countless women with untold stories who have suffered from simi...
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May 24, 2022 .
childrenofthequicksands, efuatraore
I think this is very reminiscent of many Nigerian children today (the torn from cultural roots part), which is sad because we are ...
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June 16, 2026 .
Lists, Opinions, Short Stories
Finishing a short story gives readers a small but meaningful win. That feeling of completion builds confidence and reinforces the ...
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January 25, 2022 .
africanliterature, nanadarkoa, thesexlivesofafricanwomen
As an African woman, I have lived in shame, and shame has lived in me. I told myself I was keeping my virginity for my husband. I ...
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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.
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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October 23, 2025 .
African Literature
The Road to the Country is not about reimagining war. It’s about facing it; its chaos, silence and legacy. It’s about the people w...
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Think of Freshwater book as Eddie and Venom: the parasitical aspect, with its supreme interactions with the ordinary.
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