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The production will be by Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios and David Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon.

The screenplay is by the filmmaker and the novelist. Singer Niyola makes her film debut as the lead.

It will be the first screenwriting credit for the Nigerian novelist, who co-wrote with Afolayan.

Since the 1950s, the Nobel laureate has worked in rebellion, carving out a complex, fecund torque of an oeuvre. But as his plays of mythic vigor and Yoruba impulse revitalized Anglophone theatre, raising an art form to ritualistic heights, his force of personality kept him in the political arena, a close witness of an African affliction. Few artists have lived like him. Yet at 91, carrying the mantle of “greatest living writer,” he has one more great battle on his hands — with generations who once deified him.

In grave dramas of styled minimalism, the Ibadan-born director constructs harsh worlds of dangerous dreams, in which characters are caught up in greed and violence.

Guided by his “Igbo awakening,” Dika Ofoma sets his brief features — God’s Wife, A Quiet Monday, and A Japa Tale, among them — in southeastern Nigeria, with characters, often women, whose day-to-day lives, he argues, are “interesting enough.”

From father figures and bad sons to frustrated wives and fierce lovers: our second annual list of the film and TV performances that elevated stories in 2024.

Lisabi: The Uprising, Seven Doors, and House of Ga’a lead with ten nominations. Composer Tolu Obanro is also nominated.

From historical dramas to thrillers, our second annual list of Nollywood films and series that demonstrate coherence, vision, ambition, or consciousness.

The documentary This Is Love shows Nigerians who “live beautiful love stories in a place where the love they share is taboo.” After a Best LGBT Feature win at Brazil’s Bahia Independent Cinema Festival, director and co-producer Victor Ugoo knows that “distribution seems to be the hardest part of filmmaking.”

A franchise entry from Funke Akindele, another Yoruba historical feature by Femi Adebayo, a supernatural thriller starring Stan Nze, and a romantic flick with Shaffy Bello.

Bolanle Austen-Peters’ meaty biopic and historical epic about Bashorun Ga’a succeeds in keeping audiences perched on the edge of their seats, aided by good production and Femi Branch’s charisma.

For the Nigerian novelist, women’s lives are the plot. With Tomorrow I Become a Woman and We Were Girls Once, the first two books in a planned cross-generational trilogy, she takes us into the burdens of marriage, motherhood, ethnicity, and class.

Hopping between genres, his scores are heard in almost every major recent box office and streaming success, including A Tribe Called Judah, Jagun Jagun, Gangs of Lagos, and Battle on Buka Street. “I’ve been trusted by filmmakers,” he said.

In a storied year for Nigerian cinema, our inaugural list prioritizes the realization of narrative, and these features stand out.

In a year of ensembles, in which it fell on collective performances to elevate stories, these actors stood out — among the films and TV series we saw.

From major Profiles of actors Rita Dominic and Chidi Mokeme to the inspiring stories of chess master Tunde Onakoya and poet Tares Oburumu, to revealing dives into craft: these stories show our range.

In five years, Chess in Slums Africa brought hope to thousands of children and became a charity phenomenon. But, to get there, its founder had to survive terrors.

Director, producer, and screenplay writer Ebuka Njoku and producer Lorenzo Menakaya on their professional journeys and the making of their Netflix No. 1 hit.

A long career playing playboys and villains, including a soldier in ’76 and real-life robber Monday Osunbor, set him apart as an intriguing supporting act. But after a moment of personal adversity, he dug deep and returned in Shanty Town — a domineering leading turn unlike any other we have seen in Nollywood.