Orji Victor Ebubechukwu

1 month ago | opencountrymag.com | Paula Willie-Okafor |Orji Victor Ebubechukwu |Iheoma Uzomba |Otosirieze Obi-Young

There are days when I think that Nollywood film critics are too harsh and more days when I think they are not harsh enough: it reflects an inconsistent industry from which the two biggest streamers, first Prime Video and then Netflix, have pulled out — a business many of whose stakeholders seem to not understand that there is no extent of “branding” or trumpeting of “numbers,” no annual feature in Variety or The Hollywood Reporter stalely announcing “the rise” and “arrival” of “African...

2 months ago | opencountrymag.com | Orji Victor Ebubechukwu |Otosirieze Obi-Young

When I wrote my first book, Osun’s Daughters, a mentor of mine called attention to how many citations I had in both Spanish and Portuguese: “If I were you, if I had that dominance over different languages, I would put the quotes within and translate them myself rather than counting on whether they were published or not.” - Valdes...