Ali Baylay

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: […]

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One on One

One On One The first love between two adolescents is so powerful and pure. It’s the kind of love without reason, for they’re blind and innocent, virgin to the true intricacies of living a life. It is pure romance. The kind of love which the name of a partner, ‘Vivian’,’ Michael’, evokes magic and charm. With

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Aminata

Aminata  Aminata is a pastoral story of a tyrant Chief, Adikali Momo who can marry any woman or underage girl for his taste in his chiefdom. This time, he wants Kelfala (Mohamed Bobson Kamara), the village drunk’s daughter, Aminata (Aissatou Bah) to be his nineteenth wife. Being a poor husband, Kelfala is easy to consent

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Wicked Intentions

By Ali Baylay The last time I was ridiculed, confused, and puzzled by a literary genre was when I read Wole Soyinka’s Interpreters. I read it twice with no success at understanding the novel, until an O’level class friend of mine recommended Fourah Bay College Edred Jones’ treatise, Interpreters Interpreted. Even at that, I can’t hardly have

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Corporate Maid

Corporate Maid It’s Mercy Johnson again! This time she’s a three-dimensional character in a convoluted story. She plays Miss Rose, a straight-jacketed English maid who has a lesbian affair with the lady of the house; then she sleeps with the husband of the house and tops it off by sleeping with the house cook in her quarters. Corporate

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Sins of Rachael

  Sins of Rachael Director Emeka H. Umeasor takes a close and personal look at Sins of Rachael. You can find it so in the composition of the shots as they interpret on screen.  The excessive use of extreme close-ups and medium close-ups bring even viewers closer to the events and characters on screen. Beautiful shots befitting beautiful story.

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Afro Hollywood Awards

AFRO HOLLYWOOD AWARD HOLDS IN LONDON, NOVEMBER: Patience Ozokwor, Van Vicker, Uche Jumbo, Yemi Solade, Saidi Balogun, Mike Ezouruonye etal bag awards. African Film Awards  also known as Afro Hollywood Awards  will hold at the Indigo-02 Arena in London, on Wednesday 12th of November 2008 with a-list actors and actresses from across the continent of

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My Story

    My Story My Story is a hybrid form of Fatal Attraction. Vickey, a married woman, introduces Stanley to her elegant pad like a lion lures a prey to his den. Once in the den she eventually succeeds in seducing him with a kiss (I nominate this kiss as Nollywood’s on-screen kiss of the year) and

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