Filmmaker and popular curator, Femi Odugbemi has opined that Nigerian films are already culture superpowers across the globe.

Akinola Davies, the director of "My Father's Shadow", Nigeria's first film to win an award at the Cannes film festival, is savouring his return to Lagos, the country's cultural capital, where the ...

Akinola Davies, the director of "My Father's Shadow", Nigeria's first film to win an award at the Cannes film festival, is savouring his return to Lagos, the country's cultural capital, where the ...

In Nigeria today, one doesn’t have to attend a church service to hear a sermon. The pulpit has moved – onto screens, into living rooms, and across YouTube. Along with this shift, a fascinating genre ...

HBO's doc provides social, cultural and political context to Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun's rise to stardom. The narrative starts when the Grammy winner is asked to play the Tottenham Hotspur stadium in ...

This is a masterclass in hustle, ownership, and unapologetic black storytelling 10 Tyler Perry films every aspiring Nigerian filmmaker should study Say what you want about Tyler Perry, but when it ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Director Akinola Davies Jr. poses for a portrait ...

Cannes: Akinola Davies Jr.'s semi-autobiographical feature debut stars Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as an absent father who tries to set a good example for his sons as their country burns around them. June 24, 1993 ...

It would be a historic and special moment just simply for the fact that Akinola Davies Jr.‘s debut feature, My Father’s Shadow, is the first film from Nigeria to be selected to play in the Cannes Film ...

Exclusive: Set over the course of a single day in Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, the film premieres in Un Certain Regard. In 78 years of the Cannes Film Festival, it’s hard to believe ...

NFWP is focused on addressing the specific constraints that limit women’s productivity and upward socioeconomic mobility, while bolstering their economic opportunities and challenging conventional ...