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Jan 12, 2025 | 
republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Seyi Lasisi
Photo illustration by Ezinne Osueke / THE REPUBLIC. Ref: Ake Arts and Book Festival @akefestival / INSTAGRAM.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Seyi Lasisi
Photo illustration by Ezinne Osueke / THE REPUBLIC. Ref: Ake Arts and Book Festival @akefestival / INSTAGRAM.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
whatkeptmeup.com | Seyi Lasisi
In 2022, when I attended and wrote about the S16 Film Festival, I closed with this reflection: “Like the closing film of the festival, Nollywood should know that the S16 festival isn’t seeking its Burial but creating a pathway for the Resurrection of cinema culture.” Two years later, the imposing strides and achievements of Nigerian indie filmmakers have proven that sentence undeniably true.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Seyi Lasisi
Egunjobi grew up in a family that encouraged reading and extracurricular activities. His late father was a professor. Thus, in his formative years, from late 90s to 2000s, he swiftly developed a quick sense of introspection. As a student of Subuola Memorial Nursery and Primary school, which Egunjobi told me had a good library, he started reading relentlessly.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Seyi Lasisi
Collage by THE REPUBLIC. Ref: With Difficulty Comes Ease movie / IG. Collage by THE REPUBLIC.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Seyi Lasisi
Collage by THE REPUBLIC. Ref: With Difficulty Comes Ease movie / IG. THE MINISTRY OF ARTS / FILM DEPT. Collage by THE REPUBLIC. Ref: With Difficulty Comes Ease movie / IG. THE MINISTRY OF ARTS / FILM DEPT. When Korede Azeez’s film With Difficulty Comes Ease begins, Zainab (played with measured depth by Uzoamaka Aniunoh) has just suffered a loss.
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May 23, 2024 | 
socialistmovementng.org | Seyi Lasisi
by Seyi LasisiOn March 25, 2024, according to official press releases, four women were killed and one dangerously injured in a stampede. These working-class and poor suffering Nigerians had gathered in Bauchi, to collect cash (of N5, 000) being handed out by a wealthy businessman in the state. Two days prior to this traumatic experience, two Nigerian students were crushed to death in a similar stampede in Keffi. The students and others had gathered to receive free bags of rice.
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May 10, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Seyi Lasisi
Stills from ‘Augure’ Trailer (Omen, 2023). Filmfestival Oostende / THE REPUBLIC.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Seyi Lasisi
To produce this indie and experimental documentary, El Moudir assembled family members and neighbours as cast and crew members: her gracious but mildly spoken father, her humorous and outspoken mother, her dictatorial grandmother, with assistance from two neighbours, Said and Mohammed. By co-opting people she shares familial and personal bonds with, El Moudir retains a sense of intimacy in the film.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
innollywood.com | Seyi Lasisi
Retro Nolly is a weekly series of retrospective reviews of classic Nollywood films by Seyi Lasisi. We will be looking at these films with modern eyes, dissecting what made them unique and how they speak to today’s filmmaking, culture and society. Directed by Zeb Ejiro in 1996, who had previously made Nneka the Pretty Serpent and will go ahead to direct another female-driven story, Sakobi: The Snake Girl, Domitilla hints at a filmmaking epoch when unruly female leads casually dominate the screen.
