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Movies & TV The Black Book: the Nollywood thriller that topped Netflix charts worldwide
The Black Book, directed by Editi Effiong and starring Richard Mofe-Damijo as a grieving father hunting corrupt police, was released on Netflix in September 2023. It reached the global top ten of non-English films and became one of Nollywood's biggest streaming successes.
Movies & TV Kemi Adetiba: from music videos to The Wedding Party and King of Boys
Kemi Adetiba directed music videos and presented TV before making The Wedding Party in 2016 and the political crime drama King of Boys in 2018. Its Netflix sequel series, King of Boys: The Return of the King, followed in 2021.
Movies & TV Queen Sono: Netflix’s first African original series and its spy heroine
Queen Sono, released in February 2020, was the first original series Netflix commissioned from Africa. Created by Kagiso Lediga and starring Pearl Thusi as a South African spy, it was renewed for a second season, then cancelled.
Movies & TV Blood & Water: the Cape Town teen drama that became a Netflix global hit
Blood & Water, a South African Netflix original that premiered in May 2020, follows a Cape Town teenager who suspects a classmate is her sister, abducted at birth. Starring Ama Qamata and Khosi Ngema, it became one of Netflix's most watched African series.
Movies & TV Lionheart and the Oscars: why Nigeria’s first submission was disqualified
Genevieve Nnaji's Lionheart, the first Netflix original film from Nigeria, became the country's first Oscar submission in 2019. The Academy disqualified it because most of its dialogue was in English, sparking a debate about language and colonial history.
Movies & TV Atlantics: Mati Diop’s Dakar ghost story that won the Grand Prix at Cannes
Atlantics, Mati Diop's 2019 debut feature set in Dakar, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Diop was described as the first Black woman to compete for the Palme d'Or. Netflix acquired the film, and Senegal submitted it for the Oscars.
Movies & TV King of Boys: Kemi Adetiba’s Lagos political thriller and its queen, Eniola Salami
King of Boys, written and directed by Kemi Adetiba and released in 2018, stars Sola Sobowale as Eniola Salami, a businesswoman and political godmother with a criminal empire. Its sequel series, King of Boys: The Return of the King, arrived on Netflix in 2021.
Movies & TV Anikulapo: Kunle Afolayan’s Yoruba fantasy and its sweep at the 2023 AMVCAs
Anikulapo, Kunle Afolayan's 2022 Yoruba-language epic for Netflix, follows a cloth trader named Saro who gains the power to raise the dead. It won Overall Best Movie and four other awards at the 2023 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards.
News Netflix to explore Daejon Love’s $1.3 million wire fraud scheme in new documentary
Daejun Love's $1.3 million wire fraud scheme will be explored in a gripping new documentary by Netflix.
Movies & TV Beasts of No Nation: the Netflix war film shot in Ghana and its Ghanaian star
Beasts of No Nation (2015), directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and shot in Ghana, was Netflix's first original feature film. Ghanaian newcomer Abraham Attah won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at Venice for his role as Agu.
