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Every year, Nollywood produces thousands of films that speak to the daily realities of Nigerians. From cinemas and streaming platforms to YouTube, the film industry guarantees yearly production, which shows how it continues to thrive despite structural challenges. According to popular claims, Nollywood is the second-largest movie industry in the world by production. However, despite…

South Africa: Anatomy of a Cover-up, a new documentary from BBC World Service’s award-winning investigative unit, BBC Africa Eye, draws on unprecedented access to evidence and insider testimony, examining whether a detective’s pursuit of the truth ultimately cost him his life. Piecing together the events that led to one of the most explosive criminal cases…

In the churning currents of 21st-century Afrobeats, few figures have exerted as decisive an influence on the genre’s texture and temperature as Kareem Olasunkanmi Temitayo, better known as Magicsticks. The producer, sound engineer, and DJ has engineered a sound that feels both rooted in the streets of Lagos and irrepressibly borderless. His producer tag, “Tune…