Following its Cannes premiere earlier this year, My Father’s Shadow has released the first trailer of its semi-autobiographical tale. Premiering Feb. 6 in theaters, via Mubi, the Akinola Davies ...

Nigerian films Dust to Dreams and My Father’s Shadow are set to screen at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival Every October, the British Film Institute (BFI) turns London into a global hub for cinema ...

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 ...

Adebayo Adeleye has had enough. The Super Eagles goalkeeper from Nigeria is asking the public to stop comparing him to André Onana, the Cameroonian shot-stopper for Manchester United. Currently in ...

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“Peace is not a silence you force into people’s mouths,” writes Maryam Bukar Hassan, a Nigerian spoken word artist and poet known as Alhanislam who has become the UN’s first Global Advocate for Peace.

With the African film industry experiencing a massive point-of-view switch over the last decade, the space is beginning to experience more African stories being told by indigenous writers and ...

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 ...

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever ...

Sopé Dirisu ('Slow Horses') leads Akinola Davies Jr.'s debut feature, which follows a father trying to connect with his sons over the course of a consequential day in Nigerian politics. By Lovia ...