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[Review] Tu Know Ma Life: TV Comes to the Web
Dzekashu MacViban The notoriety of the web serial keeps growing as years pass, and more independent directors are drawn to the internet as a medium which provides experimental and more targeted dissemination models for streaming shows which are cheap and…
Eka Christa and the New School of Cameroonian Cinema
Dzekashu MacViban profiles Eka Christa, showing how her style eschews stereotypical narratives and goes for stories which are simple, delirious, funny, and highly reflective of the Cameroonian society.
A Start-up’s Desire to Curb Malaria with an App
Dzekashu MacViban Though its death toll is dropping, Malaria still remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases, responsible for 500,000 deaths in 2013, which is smaller than the recorded statistics for 2010, which stood at 655,000, according to the Center…
[Music Review] Ibeyi’s Hypnotic, Kaleidoscopic Debut
Dzekashu MacViban Ibeyi; Feb 17, 2015. XL Recordings. When I first watched the unsettling video for “River” by Ibeyi ( [pronounced ee-bey-ee] made up of Cuban-born, Paris-based twin sisters, Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz), on Okayafrica, I was first confused,…
[Book Review] Reclaiming the Female Body in Stacy Hardy’s Fiction
Dzekashu MacViban Stacy Hardy’s fiction navigates a written landscape between sexual politics and ontology, as the stories in Because the Night challenge the fetishization and objectification of the female body. Stacy Hardy (photo credit Niklas Zimmer) Because the Night…
[Short Review] The Chairman of Nigerian Hip Hop
Dzekashu MacViban A skit which is as outrageous as it is hilarious introduces us to MI’s third album, The Chairman, setting the tone for the album’s treatment of its main thematic concern, which is overcoming the travails one encounters…
Tito Valery “I Am Particularly Interested In Working With Artists Who Have A Vision "
Interviewed by Dzekashu MacViban Last month I introduced a collaborative project Bakwa was working on with Tito Valery in the article “Black and White are Colours Too: the Ambitious Experiments of Tito’s Photography”, wherein I discussed the experimental…
Le Blanc d’Eyenga 2 and the Burden of a Sequel
Dzekashu MacViban One of the most anticipated movie sequels in Cameroon perhaps delivers as much as it falls short. Thierry Ntamack (middle) The desire to leave Cameroon for greener pastures, an issue which is ingeniously documented in the…
The Simpsons and the Challenge of Portraying Believable Nigerian Characters
In the second part of an on-going project on The Simpsons, we asked bloggers, writers, cultural thinkers and academics to comment on the episode “The Princess Guide” [s26 e15]. Below is a selection of the comments, with an introduction by Dzekashu MacViban.