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Wilfred Okiche

Wilfred Okiche is a Nigerian film critic based in Lagos. He has mentored film critics at the Durban International Film Festival.

The interpretation: Director Kola Tubosun has made a documentary about Wole Soyinka (above). Photo Keystone-France/Getty Images

Wole Soyinka: The artist captured in a moment long gone

Kola Tubosun has made a documentary about Nigerian creative Wole Soyinka who has just turned 90

On stage: Rema performs during the Wireless Festival 2024 at Finsbury
Park, London, on 14 July. Photo: Simone Joyner/Getty Images

Rema knows his position, and he revels in it

Rema is in top form, assured of his place, yet hungry enough to make each song a furious manifesto of self

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Tems’ debut album Born in the Wild is a blistering, genre-defying masterpiece

Tems is no small player in the music world. The blend of genres and dulcet voice made her a massive name on the global scene

Babatunde Apalowo, Damilola E. Orimogunje
The director and the producer with their TEDDY for the Best Feature Film.
All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White · Panorama · Teddy Award · Feb 24, 2023
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Celebrating Africa’s strong showing at 73rd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival

After a subdued presence since 2019, filmmakers from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Rwanda and Guinea showcase exciting and raw films

Thuso Mbedu in ‘The Woman King’.

Amazing Africans of the year show world how to achieve true greatness

Here are some of the people who made it in worlds as diverse as entertainment, sport and politics — and made a difference on the continent

Intriguing: Anna Diop plays the part of Aisha in Nanny. It is the story of an immigrant that includes an African water spirit called Mami Wata.

African horror movie wins at Sundance festival

History was made in January when Nikyatu Jusu’s debut film, Nanny, became the first horror movie to win the grand jury prize in the dramatic category at the Sundance Film…

Iconic: Sola Sobowale returns as crime boss Eniola Salam

Review: Nigeria’s ‘King of Boys’ was a smash hit. Does the sequel do it justice?

Kemi Adetiba’s Netflix miniseries is certainly stylish — but it’s missing the panache of the original

International solidarity: A demonstration in memory of Dulcie September in Paris, France after her murder in 1988. The banner readers: ‘Dulcie was our friend’. (Georges Merillon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)

Review: ‘Murder in Paris’: Who killed Dulcie September?

Fast-paced and densely structured, a new documentary retrieves Dulcie September from the confines of ‘forgotten apartheid hero’

Police brutality: Nigerian youths say they are being profiled and their emails and text messages seized and read by the now supposedly disbanded Sars unit of the Nigeria Police Force.
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Nollywood’s political struggle

How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the #EndSARS protests?