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This is a great time to be in Nollywood! Each month we hear new and great things coming out of it. First it was 'Through the Glass', then 'The Figurine', 'Ije', Tango with Me, Inale, Black Gold etc now its 'I'll Take My Chances'! A dance movie! There is hiphop, salsa, traditional dance, romance, drama, suspense, name it! This  is really a great time to be in Nollywood! Watch this space! Will keep you posted!

Don't know about you but I love me some Michael Ealy... gosh!  where has that guy been? Ok! He is fine or isnt he?  For those of you that have been living under a rock, he appeared in the Beyonce video, 'Halo' which has been viewed about 87 million times! I kid you not! Go check! On acting opposite Beyonce in the video, he said;  ' Beyoncé—she’s Beyoncé!” he explains his motivation. “Once I heard the song, I had to do it. It was my second time being asked to do a Beyoncé video. The first was ‘Irreplaceable”’ –where the singer explains that her lover is indeed replaceable—“but I didn’t want to do that. I said, ‘Call me when you have a hero role.’” Well, it doesn’t get much more heroic—or angelic—than “Halo,” although Ealy says that “the original video wasn’t so fluffy. People weren’t sure what it meant. And Beyoncé said, My audience is young, this is too dark for them. “So I got another day of hanging around Beyoncé,” he continues. “Poor me. How many men can say they hav...

A friend recently invited me to watch the movie 'Desert Flower' and when I saw the trailer, I was a bit skeptical. I went, 'yeah, yeah, another chance to bash Africa again!" "Making fun of the African girl as she learns to walk in high heels and waits to be saved by the Great White Hope!' Classic!  But I went along all the same... what did I have to lose? It also came with free pop corn and drink so it was all good!  When the lights dimmed and the movie started, I was sucked in, immersed in the story. I left the theatre seriously humbled! Yes it did have the same old story of the African being 'saved' by the white man, but it also told the awe-inspiring and gut-wrenching story of Waris Dirie who survived several odds including walkg for several days in the desert without shoes, food or water to escape marriage to a 65 year old man! As well as surviving the horrible experience of undergoing female genital mutilation!  I still can not wrap my brain arou...