A remarkable celebration of African cinema
At this year's New York African Film Festival, we saw films united by key thematic concerns, some of them quite unexpected.
Articles by
Noah Tsika
Noah Tsika is an assistant professor of media studies at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of “Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora.”
Nollywood Tackles #MeToo
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Sidney Poitier and Capitalist Decolonization
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The golden age of the Nigerian short film
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Hey VICE! Put some respeck on Nollywood’s name
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Abba Makama’s exuberant comedy Green White Green (2016) belongs to a new breed of Nigerian art
Nigeria’s ‘brain drain’
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The Nigerians are coming
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