Blood Sisters and Another Nollywood Ówàḿbẹ̀
*Some initial reflections on the movie. In Netflix’s Nigerian original series, Blood Sisters, directed by Biyi Bandele and Jeremiah Gyang, Ówáḿbẹ̀ is once again thematically affirmed and reengaged as a collective praxis of social celebration, one that enables an endless reproduction of an economy of pleasures in Postcolonial Lagos. Ówàḿbẹ̀ is Nigeria’s flamboyant party culture […]
By Train to Kingston
The journey started from nowhere as journeys sometimes do. I am in Cabin 6604 on a train speeding to Montreal, reading Fanon preach of a violent decolonization, and enjoying the melange of city and country that spreads out farmhouses and silos in the middle of nowhere. With wintry winds on its sail, the metallic horse […]
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