Bolanle Austen-Peters

Although plagued with a problem seen in her movies, Bolanle Austen-Peters’ “Fela and the Kalakuta Queens” is saved by spectacle.

Nigeria’s Kunle Afolayan and Bolanle Austen-Peters and Kenya’s Kenneth Ambari and Philip Karanja are 2024 AFS fellows.

The recent Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti biopic will be screening at Harvard, as part of the 2024 Africa Alive! programme.

Latest Yoruba epic is flawed: its cinematography is mostly banal, its editing is frequently basic, and its direction slack.

This biographical account plays too nice and never rises to the full height and daring of its great subject.