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With almost 1,000 book, music, movie, and sundry reviews and essays published over the past four (4) years, we remain resolute in our belief that reviews offer us the first critical engagement with a work of art, books, movies, music, plays etc, because they help shape opinion, excite conversation, and push engagement.As we enter our 5th year, we remain committed to providing a unique space for interrogating our literary and artistic output and providing a handle for the audience and those in the academia to assess these works of literature and art.
Movies transport us through visuals, dialogue and action. This year, we had some stand-out moments in the Nigerian movie industry which continues to grow and reach new audiences enabled by streaming platforms. The Black Book and Jagun Jagun made streaming...
The Black Book is another example of the fact that Netflix viewers are not the best judges of filmic brilliance.
They may have canonized the film as one of the best from Nigeria, a fact that will make it easier for the producers to raise funding for their next film, but Editi Effiong must resist the temptation to get high on the fumes of mass adulation.
S2 is an elegant, progressive composition, like its prequel from four years before, so Wizkid in that sense, ensures that his legacy as the Soundman remains intact. His status as African music royalty, however, has not been helped by two consecutive projects which while basking in his highs fail to surpass them.
Illbliss's new album, Sideh Kai, is the latest of half a dozen projects put out by the prolific rapper in the past ten years. His two earliest albums were released well past a decade ago. As an artist who has put out so many projects, and whose art has been elaborately illustrated, Illbliss has consistently shown the stuff he is made of and he has continuously told his story.
With almost 1,000 book, music, movie, and sundry reviews and essays published over the past four (4) years, we remain resolute in our belief that reviews offer us the first critical engagement with a work of art, books, movies, music, plays etc, because they help shape opinion, excite conversation, and push engagement.As we enter our 5th year, we remain committed to providing a unique space for interrogating our literary and artistic output and providing a handle for the audience and those in the academia to assess these works of literature and art.
biefuna’s strategies for survival largely consist of passivity, compliance, patience and conformity. Obiefuna’s life expands as he finds an alternative “chosen family” and is forced to engage with the weaponisation of queerness by the Nigerian political class.
Adoka Son: Childhood Memoirs of an African by Ad’Obe Obe, is a captivating memoir that transports readers to a bygone era; it delves into the author’s experiences growing up in Ogobia, before Nigeria was born. Obe’s compelling storytelling paints a...
A good place to start would be Bisola Bada’s i am a body of water (Konya Shamsrumi, 2023). Like Ky’s artwork, the poems in Bada’s slim collection are trained on women’s bodies and the absence of the vocabulary of shame is immediately noticeable. Take for instance, these lines in dissimilar bodies:
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