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Meet Our Mangrove Session Fellows

Meet Our Film Fellow: Lanre Olupona Olanrewaju Olupona comes to The Sahara Centre with a decade of practice in visual storytelling, and a clear sense of what film can do when it takes social life seriously as its subject. His credits include Director of Photography on Battleground (MNET) and Gidi Blues, and editorial work on […]

Join us for Mangrove Sessions: I Am Osun Film Screening

How does indigenous spirituality, symbolism, and philosophy influence storytelling across film, music, visual arts, fashion, and pop culture? At our next Mangrove Session this Saturday, we are diving deep into the intersection of heritage and the modern lens. We will be screening I Am Osun: Òrìṣà in Pop Culture, Film, and the Arts, a beautifully […]

From Soyinka to Atta: Interpreting the Nigerian Experience

If you found yourself captivated by the intellectual restlessness of Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters, our next recommendation is a natural evolution. While Soyinka’s 1965 masterpiece gave us a poetic, fragmented look at the disillusionment of the post-independence elite, Sefi Atta, in Everything Good Will Come, picks up the baton for a new generation. Atta’s work […]