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Review

What You Have Is Not Yours: A Review of Akin Omotoso’s Vaya

Your parents, they fuck you up, wrote Philip Larkin. He could have been commenting on Akin Omotoso’s Vaya where a father manages to put two families in peril. And he isn’t even alive. The film follows several stories. There is a boy seeking to return his dead father’s body to his mother. A girl looking […]

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A Hotel Called Memory Blog

The Appeal of Akin Omotoso’s A Hotel Called Memory

Events in Akin Omotosho’s new film A Hotel Called Memory are set off by a text message from Lola (played by Nse Ikpe Etim and her expressive bad-for-poker face) to her husband Wale (Akin Omotosho) requesting divorce. She’s at a beach in Lagos. From there, Lola takes off to Zanzibar, another coastal city, where she is shown […]

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Review

Women of the Civil War: A Review of Afia

The documentary Afia Attack shows the efforts of women during the Nigerian Civil War. The narratives so far are centred around men, ignoring those who had to tend children and homes left behind by men. While this is admirable in intent, the final film doesn’t quite get up to those of those lofty ideals. For […]

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