Note on Terminology and Orthography -- Introduction: Charting the Voyage / Henry John Drewal -- Mami Wata and the Sierra Leone Diamonds: Wealth and Enslavement in Men's Dreams and the State Economy / ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dekanalog has picked up North American rights to the Sundance competition title Mami Wata, the third feature film from Nigerian filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi. Based on West African mermaid ...

A Nigerian film “Mami Wata” has been selected for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The annual festival, which is a convergence of original storytellers from ...

This photograph was taken by Dr. Henry Drewal while conducting field research in southeastern Nigeria, on a Fulbright-Hays Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from 1977 through 1978. Original title ...

The feature film has been selected as one of the six work-in-progress films of the 9th edition of Final Cut in Venice. C.J. Obasi's Mami Water produced by Oge Obasi ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Director C.J. Obasi’s Mami Wata is a monochromatic feast for the eyes that wants you to think about what it means ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi debuts his third feature Mami Wata in competition at Sundance later this month. Today, Deadline can share a first-look clip from the film. Watch the ...

Shot in dense, high-contrast black and white, writer-director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s “Mami Wata,” unspools like a mysterious dream. It’s both inscrutable and hypnotic, delivering indelible images while ...

Uunle Afolayan’s Anikulapo, Jade Osiberu’s Gang of Lagos, and CJ Obasi’s Mami Water have secured multiple nominations ahead of the 19th Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA. The board of the Africa Film ...

UNILAG Is Teaming Up With The University of Birmingham for a New Campus UNILAG’s partnership with the University of Birmingham deepens Nigeria–UK education ties and brings British-quality learning to ...