Chimamanda Adichie, Uzodinma Iweala and a bunch of other amazing writers are proof that Nigerian books deserve a spot on the big screen.
23-year-old Tomi Adeyemi’s debut fantasy novel, ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ recently got signed by Fox 2000 – which means another Nigerian adapted film will hit the cinemas real soon!
The Black Lives Matter- inspired book (which is not even published yet), tells the story of a little girl, Zelie Adebola and her stand against oppression.
While details of the film are still unknown, we can only wait impatiently to see how great this film turns out.
Also, you can keep up with Tomi Adeyemi’s work w=on her website, TomiAdeyemi.com.
1. When teenagers go and cry to their parents about heartbreak.
Wait! So no slaps and a lecture on facing your education? WOW
2. When a teenager says “shut up mom” or “shut up dad” in a moment of rebellion and the next scene is not their funeral.
How please?
3. When a character in an action movie can travel around the world impromptu without a single visa interview.
Wow so you can just move around like that? Must be nice.
4. When a character ignores a whole table of food because they are late to work.
So you will waste all that food like that.
5. When the villain wants to kill the protagonist and starts making one long unnecessary speech.
Face your killing work please.
6. When white people hear a “noise” even though they’re the only ones at home and decide to go and investigate.
If you sit down and ignore it is it not better?
7. When a group of friends decide to play with an ouija board or visit a haunted house “for fun”.
If you are looking for death, please just say it.
8. When the underdog wins even though he/she has been inept throughout the movie.
How please?
So that’s how one Lagos boy just finished watching a nollywood romance movie and started feeling inspired
So he does more “research” and plots and plans like a real Lagos boy
It’s a serious matter!
He first takes one babe for a picnic in the park
Eat. Love. Nature…. “romantic sometings”.
But then all the insects in Lagos decide to join them
Na wa for Lagos nature oh.
On to the next babe… because he has many.
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
He decides to take the next babe on a long drive
Love in the time of potholes.
But then they enter one deadly traffic
Mo daran!
Then he decides to up his game and write her a “not so anonymous” anonymous letter
Shakespeare abeg shift, the real writers are here!
Only for her to complain that one idiot wrote her an anonymous letter talking rubbish
Can you imagine? After all his hard work oh.
Then he battles another traffic just to play romantic music outside her window
This one must click.
Only to get to her gate and hear “ah madam said I should say she is not around oh”
You say what?
Then finally he tries to do a real romance and kiss in the rain
Come on baby!
Only for her to start shouting that he ruined her hair and now she has cattarh
Aunty you will not kill someone sha!
So he decides to give up and goes back to his normal level of late night call, credit and shawarma
Son of man cannot come and go and die. Not everything is for everybody abeg!
Moral of the story; not everytime copy-cata, sometimes face your front
Leave romance for nollywood, biko.
Not every time bash Nollywood, sometimes give them props.
Because for every not-so-great movie and confusing translation…
People like Tunde Kelani, Stephanie Linus, Emem Isong and Kunle Afolayan come through with awesome movies that make us fall in love with Nollywood all over again.
After blessing us with The Figurine and the award winning October 1, Kunle Afolayan has made a new movie, titled The CEO, and it first premiered on a flight from Lagos to Paris.
One of the actors, Haitian Jimmy Jean Louise, (aka the hot guy from Phat Girls) who was in Nigeria for the official premiere of the movie couldn’t stop gushing about Nollywood and Nigeria.
According to him, Nigeria is one of Africa’s leading countries with the most potential and power. He even added that Nollywood has a better representation of African cinema. Nice!
The CEO movie should be a mind-blowing movie, anyway, we expect nothing short of perfection from Kunle Afolayan.
The movie which also features Angelique Kidjo, is about a group of top executives of a multi-national company who begin to die mysteriously during a short business trip. Watch the movie trailer here.
So respected veteran actress of the Hollywood industry made a really controversial statement recently, when she was in Berlin heading up her first international film jury.
When she was asked if she was familiar with world cinema, particularly films from Africa and the Middle East, she said she had recently seen the Jordanian film “Theeb,” about a Bedouin boy on a hazardous mission in the desert, and also “Timbuktu,” about Islamist militants taking over the fabled Malian city.
But what really caught everyone’s attention was:
The thing that I notice is that there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And after all, we’re all from Africa originally, you know. We’re all Berliners; we’re all Africans, really.
This statement followed an uproar over the all-white Oscar acting nominee selection for a second straight year. The brouhaha forced the movie industry to confront how blacks, Asians and Latinos are represented in Hollywood.
It later came to light that Meryl Streep’s “We’re all Africans, really” comment was a direct response to a question about Arab and African films, not a response to questions about the Film Festival’s all white jury, as originally suggested.
But according to science, we really are all Africans, so even if she was taken out of context, she’s might still be right.
Watch the video below:
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Featured image via The Daily Beast.
