Charles Okafor is recognised as one of the veteran actors in the Nollywood film industry. In 1996, he appeared in his first movie Domitilla and in 1999 rose to fame after starring in the blockbuster movie End of the Wicked. Since then, Okafor has won many African movie awards including...
Media entrepreneur and filmmaker, Mo Abudu announced recently the adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman for the screen by EbonyLife Films. This was disclosed on Instagram after a meeting with Professor Soyinka in Scotts, London. EbonyLife Films is a company of Ebony Life TV, an Africa entertainment...
The largest film industry in Africa is the Nigerian cinema, better known as Nollywood. Having grossed revenue of NGN1.72 trillion (US$10 billion) in 2013, it is rated the third most valuable film industry in the world, behind India and the United States. In terms of the number of annual film...
The evolution of theatre, TV and film in Nigeria is in consonance with William George Jordan’s assertion in The Power of Peace that Charles Darwin’s 1859 book, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, was inspired by Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population. Other writers also...
At 41, Aïssa Maïga is one of the familiar faces on the big screen. Since she was a teenager, she has gracefully navigated her way through the French film industry. Some have often wondered what it takes to succeed in the film industry, not just in France but anywhere else...
“My Black African female body has been historically on a collision course with power, with masculinity, with whiteness, at times validating these presences but often refuting them. My body, therefore—my Black African female body—is a gloriously terrible fact, a weapon, a laboratory, an experiment, a theory, a cultural and global...
Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and researcher Wilfred Ukpong recently received a special film award at the ITB Berlin, the world’s largest annual tourism trade fair. His Afro-futuristic Arthouse short film Future World won the excellent golden award out of 120 international film entries under the Eco-Tourism category at The Golden...
From March 22 – 25, documentary filmmakers and enthusiasts from around Africa and parts of Europe and the West, will converge on Lagos for the 2018 edition of the yearly I-Rep International Documentary Film Festival. Produced by the Foundation for the Development of Documentary Film Festivals in Africa, the festival...
One of the most anticipated events Social Media Week Lagos will once again converge the biggest names and players in the tech space. With an attendance of about 15,000 people in its last edition and a 454 million global online view, this 6th edition of Social Media Week Lagos, tagged...
We present the concluding part of the interview with award-winning film director, cinematographer, scriptwriter and editor Izuchukwu Ojukwu, first published on Monday, January 8, 2017. Read more: In Conversation with Izuchukwu Ojukwu (Part 1) Why are you re-enacting Nigerian history, and in particular, the General Muritala Mohammed story? Democracy in Nigeria is still...
Izuchukwu Ojukwu is an award-winning film director, cinematographer, scriptwriter and editor who educated himself in the trade through voracious reading and experimental work. He is credited for several films including the 5 that launched the acting careers of the winners of the Amstel Box Office (AMBO) reality TV show such...
British-Nigerian actor, David Oyelowo will star in the upcoming American action comedy, Gringo, alongside leading South African actress Charlize Theron Blaze. Combining dark comedy with dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides across the border into Mexico, where all is not as it seems for mild-mannered American businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo). Crossing the...
