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AV Club: ‘Crime and Justice Lagos’ tackles societal ills through the police & legal procedure
Starring Folu Storms and Jammal Ibrahim as lead

AV Club: Kayode Kasum’s ‘Soólè’ Employs Exaggerated Comedy To Make Poignant Social Commentary
featuring your favourite Nollywood

AV Club: Exploring The Poignant Appeal of South African Films
providing contextual reflection of the nation's social and political evolution.

AV Club: “Glamour Girls”, music choices & the complicated strides of modern Nollywood
A great encapsulation of where mainstream Nigerian filmmaking

AV Club: Surreal 16’s ‘Juju Stories’ examines human stories at the centre of supernatural chaos
Three stories driven by familiar lore and open to

AV Club: How ‘Coming 2 America’ can portray an accurate view of Africa
The sequel to the 1988 classic is coming to Amazon Prime in

AV Club: “Finding Fela” & the importance of wholesomely documenting African music’s heroes
Alex Gibney’s documentary is far from a hagiography, but it clearly doesn’t dig deep

AV Club: “Nigerian Prince” is about a fraudulent scammer, but the police is the real villain
A reiteration that the system charged with maintaining law and order is, more often than not, lawless and

AV Club: “Kalushi” uses the anti-apartheid struggle as a backdrop to portray stolen youth
Aimed at bringing more awareness to the lives of many unsung heroes who paid the ultimate price in that

AV Club: “Kasala!” is powered by a strong execution & a story soaked in reality
Ema Edosio's debut is an engaging and enjoyable representation of the lives of the actual majority in the centre of...

AV Club: Everything about the drama-filled “Joy” is riveting and harrowing
An unflinching, empathetic look at the joyless nature of sex

AV Club: “Crazy, Lovely, Cool” is a mixed portrayal of the Nigerian university experience
Frequently entertaining and relatable, but sometimes

AV Club: Daniel Obasi’s “An Alien In Town” is a dull attempt at Afrofuturism
Depicting a post-modern Africa for a global audience needs more

AV Club: Wami Aluko’s “For Those Who Listen” fails to complete the mission
If you're thinking Michael

AV Club: Joseph Nti’s “Off The Top” doesn’t take itself too seriously and therein lies its magic
A successful pivot to video.

AV Club: The guys behind “Dawn of Thunder” want to bring our very own thunder god to life
Sango for d gyals dem.

AV Club: Daniel Obasi’s new fashion film is a facile narrative about gender in Nigeria
Almost a masterpiece, but not quite.

AV Club: Mr Eazi’s “Tilapia” short film is both surprisingly unimpressionable and meaningless
We picked Tilapia apart and found nothing

AV Club: Olu Ososanya’s takes through Hollywood’s stereotyping of Africa.
Unpacking all the single story stereotyping that has crept into African