Review
The format of the modern romantic comedy is well known: the meet-cute, the teasing period, the alignment of the stars, the rise of obstacles/fall of obstacles, the happy ending. But these seemingly formulaic stories still get told because we love them, and because they’re an easy way into a culture, both to celebrate it and […]
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Gallery
The 2016 Lights, Camera, Africa!!! film festival has come and gone. But we have saved some of the memories. See below for photos.
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Review
This remake of Prince’s film “Purple Rain”, pays tribute to the Touareg passion for the electric guitar. Filmed in Tamatchek language, the title translates to “Rain The Colour of blue with a little red in it” because there is no literal translation of the word “Purple” in Tamatchek. Thankfully music is universal and does not […]
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Blog,Feature
You could call her Nollywood’s Sade Adu, who in well over two decades released only 6 studio albums as lead singer of the band Sade. Ego Boyo née Nnamani shot into national prominence as Ann Haastrup in late Amaka Igwe’s memorable TV Series, Checkmate, which ran between 1991 and 1995. Boyo has only produced 6 movies since […]
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