ACCRA, GHANA — Frustrated by the difficulty of accessing quality African content abroad, a group of Ghanaian entrepreneurs have teamed up to launch a service they’ve dubbed the African Hulu. ReelAfrican.com, a new streaming video service now beta-testing ahead of a planned fall launch, will offer original African films and series using a model similar …
A LadybrilleNigeria Exclusive: Interview With Kayode Martins of Xsightn, Nigeria’s Top Wedding Photographer
LadybrilleNigeria readers, we have a very nice treat for you! On our Facebook and Twitter fanpage, we told you all we had a surprise for you! Well, here we go! The surprise is our full-length and exclusive interview with Kayode Martins, one of Nigeria’s top photographers! Now if you know anything about Kayode Martins, you …
Introducing GidisDrummerBoy Debola Akinsanya- Nigeria's Rising Prolific Drummer
Debola Akinsanya aka GidisDrummerBoy is fast becoming a You Tube sensation. A talented young drummer who continues to perfect his talent with fierce passion, Akinsanya has done covers for a variety of songs ranging from Linkin Park, DA GRIN, Cold Play to Kid Konnect’s remix on the hit song “Look at Me Now.” “(I’ve) been …
Nollywooduncut.com Bola Aduwo Nominated Script Writer for City People Awards 2011
LadybrilleNigeria.com salutes Bola Aduwo of nollywooduncut.com who has just been nominated as Script writer of the Year at the 2011 City People Entertainment Awards. “Bola Aduwo is a writer, publicist and trained broadcaster who has worked as a producer in the Nation’s foremost radio station Radio Nigeria (Kapital FM Abuja) for a number of years. …
Film Review: ‘Hey Boo’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
(DVD Review) In 1961, Harper Lee, an unknown white woman from a small town in Alabama, won a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Released at the height of the African-American struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the book played a pivotal role in raising the country’s awareness of racism while simultaneously …
Film Review: ‘Shanghai Red’ – Grieving Widow Dates Admirer in Cleverly-Concealed Mystery
(Chinese DVD Film Review) Meili Zhu (Vivian Wu) was inconsolable in the wake of the murder of her husband, Lian Wei (Kenny Bee), because she had not only suddenly lost her life partner but would now have to raise their 7 year-old son, Bebe (Lu Yao), alone. Obviously, we all mourn differently and, in the …