Nigeria

June 24, 2025

His Style Is Symbolist: “Afro Contemporary Symbolism”

Grief led Uwana Anthony to make his short film Everything Must End. His style is “a movement and a cause for change in our approach to pursuing knowledge.”

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 27, 2025

She Makes Humane and Horror Shorts

As founder of the Africa International Horror Film Festival (AIHFF), the first such platform in West Africa and second in the continent, Nneoha Ann Aligwe believes that the genre “allows us to confront” the “darkness within us.” And courage matters to her, hence her documentary Born Different.

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 19, 2025

In His Short Films, the Drama Is in the Mundane

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.”

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 13, 2025

She Got Her Start by Asking. Now She Runs Her Own Shows.

Not wanting to be boxed in, Fatima Binta Gimsay moves from television to short films. Her work includes Fine Girls, Omozi, and Ijo. “The challenge on the indie side of things will always be money,” she said.

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

April 15, 2025

The 10 Best Acting Performances of the Year

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.

Otosirieze

March 25, 2025

Dream Count, Reviewed: A Great Novelist’s Chronicle of Vulnerabilities

Coming 12 years after her third novel Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s vital, splintered return to longform fiction shows classes of womanhood. It demonstrates yet again her elegant, unmatched grasp of language. In some ways, it is also different from her previous novels.

Paula Willie-Okafor

March 18, 2025

The 10 Best Films & TV Series of 2024

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

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

A Night in 2005, Reviewed: A Brilliant Revenge & Social Thriller

Temidayo Makanjuola’s smartly cast action drama — with Ini Dinma Okojie and Doris Uzoamaka Aniunoh shining — is calibrated to today’s social media climate without ceding artistic integrity to it.

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

Roses and Ivy, Reviewed: Sisters Asunder

The rotating narration maintains an emotional scaffold in Bidoun Stephen’s drama of childlessness, but the limited series stutters with plot inconsistencies.

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

A Green Fever, Reviewed: Mystery Man in the House

Taiwo Egunjobi’s direction keeps this thriller open-ended, and his visual style is solid.

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

With Difficulty Comes Ease, Reviewed: The Hard Life of a Muslim Igbo Widow

Akorede Azeez’s portrait of grief in tough times is grounded by a career-best turn from Doris Uzoamaka Aniunoh.

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Reviewed: Uneven Dues for a Legend

Bolanle Austen-Peters’ biopic of the great activist is almost redeemed by a few scenes and a split in chronology.

Otosirieze

February 27, 2025

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2024: Presented with Open Country Mag

Releasing the third annual compilation of the only bestseller list in Nigerian literature: comprising the Top 100 books of the year, alongside the Top 50 in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, self-published, and children’s books.

Otosirieze

February 8, 2025

SBMEN Announces Editorial Practice & Project Management Course in February 2025

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

February 4, 2025

JK Anowe, a Confessional Poet, Confronts Himself

Working from fragments, the reclusive poet led a wave of young Nigerian voices situating the self and mental states. Now his “schizo poetry” is evolving, drawing from Igbo cosmology.

Iheoma Uzomba

January 10, 2025

The Nigerian Edition Cover of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count

Narrative Landscape Press

January 9, 2025

In the Lives of Three Couples, a Vision for Queer Love

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.”

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

December 9, 2024

A Small Indie Producer Bets on Social Justice Cinema

Godwin Harrison’s “advocacy-led” HUG Media Concept is “about using cinema to address issues.” His new film Ima’mi is based on his life as an Efik prince who was outed as gay.

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

December 6, 2024

The Prodigious Arrival of Arinze Ifeakandu

In an era of unearned hype, the novelistic short stories of God’s Children Are Little Broken Things established him as a major talent, earning him the Dylan Thomas Prize. But as potent as fiction is in combating queer erasure, he believes in the supplement of living openly.

Paula Willie-Okafor

December 5, 2024

With the S16 Film Festival, an Arthouse Collective Locks Its Focus

A trio of young filmmakers banded together as the Surreal16 Collective, to resist Nollywood clichés. At their festival, Michael Omonua, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, and Abba T. Makama curate a haven for unorthodox filmmakers.

Michael Aromolaran

June 24, 2025

His Style Is Symbolist: “Afro Contemporary Symbolism”

Grief led Uwana Anthony to make his short film Everything Must End. His style is “a movement and a cause for change in our approach to pursuing knowledge.”

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 27, 2025

She Makes Humane and Horror Shorts

As founder of the Africa International Horror Film Festival (AIHFF), the first such platform in West Africa and second in the continent, Nneoha Ann Aligwe believes that the genre “allows us to confront” the “darkness within us.” And courage matters to her, hence her documentary Born Different.

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 19, 2025

In His Short Films, the Drama Is in the Mundane

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.”

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 13, 2025

She Got Her Start by Asking. Now She Runs Her Own Shows.

Not wanting to be boxed in, Fatima Binta Gimsay moves from television to short films. Her work includes Fine Girls, Omozi, and Ijo. “The challenge on the indie side of things will always be money,” she said.

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

April 15, 2025

The 10 Best Acting Performances of the Year

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.

Otosirieze

March 25, 2025

Dream Count, Reviewed: A Great Novelist’s Chronicle of Vulnerabilities

Coming 12 years after her third novel Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s vital, splintered return to longform fiction shows classes of womanhood. It demonstrates yet again her elegant, unmatched grasp of language. In some ways, it is also different from her previous novels.

Paula Willie-Okafor

March 18, 2025

The 10 Best Films & TV Series of 2024

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

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

A Night in 2005, Reviewed: A Brilliant Revenge & Social Thriller

Temidayo Makanjuola’s smartly cast action drama — with Ini Dinma Okojie and Doris Uzoamaka Aniunoh shining — is calibrated to today’s social media climate without ceding artistic integrity to it.

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

Roses and Ivy, Reviewed: Sisters Asunder

The rotating narration maintains an emotional scaffold in Bidoun Stephen’s drama of childlessness, but the limited series stutters with plot inconsistencies.

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

A Green Fever, Reviewed: Mystery Man in the House

Taiwo Egunjobi’s direction keeps this thriller open-ended, and his visual style is solid.

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

With Difficulty Comes Ease, Reviewed: The Hard Life of a Muslim Igbo Widow

Akorede Azeez’s portrait of grief in tough times is grounded by a career-best turn from Doris Uzoamaka Aniunoh.

Otosirieze

March 15, 2025

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Reviewed: Uneven Dues for a Legend

Bolanle Austen-Peters’ biopic of the great activist is almost redeemed by a few scenes and a split in chronology.

Otosirieze

February 27, 2025

The Rovingheights Bestseller List 2024: Presented with Open Country Mag

Releasing the third annual compilation of the only bestseller list in Nigerian literature: comprising the Top 100 books of the year, alongside the Top 50 in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, self-published, and children’s books.

Otosirieze

February 8, 2025

SBMEN Announces Editorial Practice & Project Management Course in February 2025

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

February 4, 2025

JK Anowe, a Confessional Poet, Confronts Himself

Working from fragments, the reclusive poet led a wave of young Nigerian voices situating the self and mental states. Now his “schizo poetry” is evolving, drawing from Igbo cosmology.

Iheoma Uzomba

January 10, 2025

The Nigerian Edition Cover of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count

Narrative Landscape Press

January 9, 2025

In the Lives of Three Couples, a Vision for Queer Love

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.”

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

December 9, 2024

A Small Indie Producer Bets on Social Justice Cinema

Godwin Harrison’s “advocacy-led” HUG Media Concept is “about using cinema to address issues.” His new film Ima’mi is based on his life as an Efik prince who was outed as gay.

Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

December 6, 2024

The Prodigious Arrival of Arinze Ifeakandu

In an era of unearned hype, the novelistic short stories of God’s Children Are Little Broken Things established him as a major talent, earning him the Dylan Thomas Prize. But as potent as fiction is in combating queer erasure, he believes in the supplement of living openly.

Paula Willie-Okafor

December 5, 2024

With the S16 Film Festival, an Arthouse Collective Locks Its Focus

A trio of young filmmakers banded together as the Surreal16 Collective, to resist Nollywood clichés. At their festival, Michael Omonua, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, and Abba T. Makama curate a haven for unorthodox filmmakers.

Michael Aromolaran