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Uzoamaka Doris Aniunoh

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
Dika Ofoma by Rachel Seidu

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.
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Open Country Mag: The 10 Best Acting Performances of 2024

May 19, 2025

Dika Ofoma by Rachel Seidu

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

April 15, 2025

Open Country Mag: The 10 Best Acting Performances of 2024

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

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