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Nigeria · Nollywood · Nollywood · Release preview and creative-work analysis
Ahead of the announced November 6 cinema release, a source-checked preview of Isime’s executive-producer debut, the collaborators behind it and the questions a trailer cannot answer about a finished film.
20 Oct 2026, 12:02 WAT
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Nigeria / United States / African diaspora · Nollywood · Publisher’s editorial · Career, memory and reinvention
A brief encounter during her DBN years left me admiring a talent Nigeria could have watched for much longer. Her journey from television and home video to American healthcare asks us to reconsider what an artist owes an audience—and what an industry owes its stars.
19 Oct 2026, 16:28 WAT
Ghana · Entertainment · Updated · Culture & television · Confirmed result
TV3’s affiliated newsroom confirms Nana Konadu as winner of the October 18 finale in Accra, with Sessinam runner-up and Ampomaa third. Our earlier preview is updated with the result and its cultural context.
Updated 19 Oct 2026, 06:00 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood · Film & screen · Festival preview
The November 1–7 festival offers different routes for film lovers and professionals. Our preview explains the advertised training programme, separate market badges and the booking details still to be confirmed.
19 Oct 2026, 03:04 WAT
Career histories and practical guides retain their original context and dates.
Nigeria · Nollywood · Culture feature
From Okonkwo to Lionheart, a career built on voice, restraint and presence helped make the Nigerian screen elder an unforgettable figure.
12 Oct 2026, 06:15 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood · Actor-director · Expanded culture guide
A career feature on creative leadership, the family-business story and the difference between being seen in a film and shaping its point of view.
Updated 12 Oct 2026, 06:15 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood · Culture feature
A distinctive comic presence, dramatic recognition and ensemble work show how much a celebrated screen comedian contributes beyond the punchline.
12 Oct 2026, 06:15 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood · Culture feature
Her stage and screen work matters alongside the institutions that help other Nigerian performers learn, rehearse and reach an audience.
12 Oct 2026, 06:15 WAT
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Nigeria / United Kingdom / African diaspora · Nollywood · Festival preview · Scheduled events
Olive Nwosu’s Lagos-set drama is listed for the festival’s November 1 closing night. Ahead of the October 23 opening, a guide to the programme, its women-in-cinema symposium and planning a visit.
17 Oct 2026, 21:26 WAT
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Lagos, Nigeria · Music · Culture feature · October 14 reporting in context
Reporting from October 14 confirms performances at the New Afrika Shrine during the October 12–18 festival. Beyond the headliners, the celebration connects Afrobeat with dress, debate and shared cultural memory.
17 Oct 2026, 21:25 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · News & context
The Presidency has celebrated a record-setting Lagos screening. Its significance reaches beyond a crowd count to the work of building a film audience.
1 Oct 2026, 19:50 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood · Tribute & appreciation
From a theatre rehearsal to marriage, shared productions and Lufodo, two remarkable actors built a partnership that gave Nigerian audiences much more than memorable performances. We remember Olu Jacobs and extend our condolences to Joke Silva and their family.
20 Sept 2026, 14:35 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood · Birthday tribute · Appreciation
At 68, Patience Ozokwor deserves her flowers for decades of unforgettable acting, a lasting example to younger performers and the joy she has brought to viewers—including our publisher, Young O. Akpasubi.
19 Sept 2026, 16:18 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood · Obituary
His family confirmed that the actor and film executive died on 16 September. The cause was not disclosed; his five-decade body of work and investment in performance training remain central to his legacy.
17 Sept 2026, 18:10 WAT
United States / African diaspora · Hollywood
Her Academy record spans Malcolm X, Amistad and the Black Panther films. The achievement is not only visual spectacle: it shows how research, silhouette and material can build character and political memory.
13 Sept 2026, 12:00 WAT
Benin / United States · Hollywood
Two Academy nominations established his dramatic authority, but the more revealing story is how a Beninese actor built range inside an industry that repeatedly narrows African men to type.
13 Sept 2026, 12:00 WAT
Nigeria / United Kingdom / United States · Hollywood
His 12 Years a Slave performance earned an Academy nomination, but acting is only part of the story. Writing and directing create another route for diaspora artists to shape whose point of view governs a film.
13 Sept 2026, 12:00 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood · Rediscovered
A September Kava listing returns Kenneth Gyang’s 2013 dark comedy to the conversation—and asks what it takes to keep Nigerian films discoverable.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Director
Ordinary People moves the estate thriller into an eight-episode frame. The creative challenge is making every return to its neighbours matter.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Business
The dated success of Behind the Scenes makes a broader point: audience trust, distribution and repeatable production matter alongside star power.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Director
KAP’s film village and a 2026 training partnership shift the conversation from a director’s visual ambition to the infrastructure that can sustain it.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Distribution
An August YouTube watchlist and Ordinary People’s September launch show overlapping routes to viewers. Reach, ownership and revenue still need separate measures.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Industry
Introduced in 2025, Kava now faces the lasting test of a streaming service: giving viewers a reason to return after the launch conversation ends.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Industry
September’s releases demonstrate several routes to Nigerian audiences. The right question is what each window contributes to a film’s life.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Industry
Dear Ajayi’s 2026 Giornate degli Autori selection brings the question into focus: how can international attention become a lasting audience for a film?
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Craft
From a room’s layout to the objects a family keeps, design gives Nigerian stories a material history—and its makers deserve to be named.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Craft
Clothing carries work, status, memory and change into a scene. The craft lies in making those choices belong to the person wearing them.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood · Business
A record is only informative when its period, territory and measure are clear. Here is how to celebrate a film’s success without confusing receipts with profit.
Updated 9 Sept 2026, 22:09 WAT
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Nigeria · Nollywood
Retrospective analysis: the 1992 film’s bargain between ambition and moral responsibility remains a productive way to think about status in Nigerian screen storytelling.
8 Sept 2026, 04:05 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood
Retrospective analysis: Arie and Chuko Esiri’s Lagos drama gives work, family responsibility and ordinary transactions the weight usually reserved for the journey abroad.
8 Sept 2026, 04:05 WAT
Nigeria / West Africa · Nollywood
Retrospective analysis: C. J. Obasi’s village drama offers a sharper question than tradition versus modernity—what gives either side a legitimate claim to rule?
8 Sept 2026, 04:05 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood
Retrospective analysis: Kunle Afolayan’s period thriller places a murder investigation beside a national transition, making celebration and unresolved violence share the same frame.
8 Sept 2026, 04:05 WAT
Nigeria · Nollywood
Retrospective analysis: Desmond Ovbiagele’s Hausa-language drama examines the fractures that violence can create inside a family, beyond the moment of abduction.
8 Sept 2026, 04:05 WAT