February 2009

Honest African movie scene depicting traditional culture and drama, featuring African actors in vibrant costumes.

The Untold Truth

The Untold Truth  The Untold Truth explores a family situation we all have either witnessed or have been part of. I witnessed such situation growing up in my hometown: A rich and powerful man in my quarter had an only girl in all-girls dormitory, but she had the habit of stealing anything from her fellow girls: panties, shoes, dresses or anything she lays her hands on in seclusion, and she did this just for the heck of it. My neighbor’s girl continued […]

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Man and woman African movie star, romantic scene from Nigerian film, youthful couple in urban setting, African actors in stylish outfits, romantic drama film.

For Better or For Worse

For Better Or For Worse To put it bluntly, this is a movie that attempts at the inner state of mind of the center character, Sandra (Genevieve Nnaji), but we never get acquainted with her motivation for the kind of rebel without cause behavior of Sandra. Nwafor Anayo’s For Better or For Worse (2003), starts with Sandra entering her father’s living-room-turned-dance-hall, full of party guests, and with her nose in the air, she weeds unfavorable members from the guests and asks them out.

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Tonto Dike

By David Ajiboye “I intend to be in Nollywood for a long time,” says actress Tonto Dike. “I’m so sorry for the delay and recourse I have made you go through, sir,”  Tonto Dike, the fast rising Nigerian actress, who was one of the first housemates of the Next Movie Star, pleaded as she settled down in her Murano SUV and pleads with the director of the film on which location she was to have this chat with African Movie Star. That the screen siren

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