Film Review: ‘Joy’ shines a light on the harsh realities for Nigerian prostitutes in Austria
‘Joy’ is an expose’ into the lives of young women smuggled out of Nigeria for prostitution. It depicts the challenges
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Film Review: Reasons to watch Nigerian film Citation on Netflix
Imagine a young lady barely out of her teenage years , entangled in a sexual assault incident involving her lecturer.
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Film Review: Africans retelling their own history in Netflix’s ‘Journey of an African Colony’
The Nigerian story is a mixture of great victory and hidden glory. Oftentimes, we listen to our forefathers speak of
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Film Review: Oloture reveals the nature of sex trafficking between Europe and Nigeria
Oloture, a young journalist had to go undercover as “Ehi”, a prostitute just to get the gory details and unmask
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Film Review: Lara and the Beat
I’m not always a big fan of films packed with star studded casts because I feel the storyline is often
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Film Review: Diamonds in the sky
I can’t help thinking that the film title is influenced by the 2012 hit song by Rihanna, Partly because I
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Film Review: A dance to Forget
A dance to forget is a sad and political love story about a young girl, Lizzie (Nancy Isime), who is
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Film Review: Time Looped 2018
Time Looped is a romantic fantasy about a couple, Dayo (Erik Efiong) and Nengi (Meg Otanwa) whose marriage is in
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Film Review – Fishbone
“A witch does not kill her own grandchild, their rib will get stuck in her throat like a Fish bone.”
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Film Review – Sylvia 2018
Wickedly devious and amusingly frightening, is the best way I can describe Sylvia, a 2018 film directed by Daniel Oriahi
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Film Review – No good Turn
This critically acclaimed 2016 short film tells the story of the aftermath of a Boko Haram attack on a Police
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Film Review: Malika – Warrior Queen
I wanted to teach my daughters about African history and thought I’d show them a video about Queen Amina of
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Film Review – Skin
Skin is an emotional documentary that is meant to explore the beauty in the different shades of Black, but ends
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Film Review – Kasanova
Kasanova is a romantic comedy about the relationship between a single father of a male child and a divorced single
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Seven and a Half Dates
Seven and a Half Dates is about an unmarried 30-something nigerian lady, Bisola, played by Mercy Johnson and the pressure
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Film Review – Dinner
Mike is invited to Dinner by his childhood friend, Adetunde George, and he decides to take his latest girlfriend, Diane,
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Maami : Mother
MAAMI is a touching film based on family and cultural values instilled by a mother to her son despite living
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Between
I struggled with where to include this one but I think it fits nicely in the diaspora category. Stella Damasus
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Living in Bondage: Breaking Free
The ever-popular Ramsey Nouah stars and directs this nerve-wracking action packed thriller. From the onset we are pulled right in
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