Naira aka the ‘Small Lowkey’ is a  popular Nigerian tiktoker, content creator and fashion brand ambassador who shot to fame in 2025.

This is the new face of Nollywood filmmaking. Technology is quietly transforming how Nigerian filmmakers tell stories, shoot ...

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is one of his best works and was a hit in 2001, but Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress is significant competition.

The 2000s were an interesting period in the history of cinema. Computer-generated imagery had advanced considerably since the 20th century, but not to the point of supplanting the narrative aspect, as ...

Nollywood, Nigeria’s prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century. At first Nollywood films were screened in ...

Solomon Waliaula received funding from the International European Research Council as a contributor to the book Contemporary African Screen Worlds: Decolonizing Film and Screen Studies (2019-2025).

More than 20 years since the first movie was released, the Fast and Furious series is still going strong. Along with the fans who have been seated in theaters each time a new movie in the popular ...

This story is featured in the March/April 2025 issue of ESSENCE. In 2017, sisters Tochi and Ebele ­Anueyiagu shared a single image on their new Instagram account: a still of Nigerian film and beauty ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

In 2020, Netflix, the streaming giant, officially launched its presence in Nigeria, becoming the first major platform from its league, including Hulu and HBO, to enter the Nigerian market. However, ...