Writing

 
Eyimofe
A Specialized Technique
  • [Article] Where to begin with Ousmane Sembène?, BFI, June 2021

  • [Review] Five recommendations at BFI Flare 2021, BFI, March 2021

  • [Essay] The Watermelon Woman at 25: the Black lesbian classic that wears its brilliance lightly, BFI, February 2021

  • [Liner notes] Leontine Sagan, a life in movement: careful libertinage and kaleidoscopic selves, BFI DVD, February 2021

  • [Review] MLK/FBI is one of these stories America loves to tell about itself, Sight & Sound, January 2021

  • [Essay] “Notes from the Nigerian New Wave”, Sight & Sound, December 2020.

  • [Interview] Damilola Orimogunje, director of For Maria Ebun Pataki, The British Blacklist, November 2020

  • [Review] “Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) charts broken dreams of migration in an indomitable Lagos”, BFI, October 2020

  • [Review] “Lovers Rock finds respite and rapture in a Black London house party”, BFI, October 2020

  • [Review] “The Eagle’s Nest is a funny, cynical take on the tired trope of African desires of migration”, TBB, October 2020

  • [Interview] Olivier Assoua, director of The Eagle’s Nest, The British Blacklist, October 2020

Audiovisual Essays & Interventions

 

Video essay on The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt, for Birds’ Eye View & Mubi.

 

“Audio review of TIME: How Garrett Bradley’s temporal symphony clocks the cruelty of mass incarceration”, BFI, October 2020 [Listen | Transcript]

 

A Conversation with Merawi Gerima, Los Angeles Filmforum December 2020 [Watch]

 

Video essay on Women, Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Cinema, BFI, March 2021 [Watch]