Ultimately in his story, Nigerian writer and director C.J. Obasi is asking pertinent questions of West Africans in particular, and Africans at large.

Mami Wata is the mother of the water who originated in African culture and was borrowed by North and South Americans from African immigrants beginning in the 16th century. Last Friday, the Chazen ...

Through her films and TV series, she wants to show a different image of the African continent. Her work on the myth of mermaid Mami Wata has earned her an award at the FESPACO, the Pan-African ...

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I was trying to find my place in the world.” In that existentialist state, Obasi had a vivid black-and-white vision of the mermaid-like deity known across West Africa as Mami Wata.

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Mami Wata,’ the Sundance-winning film by Nigerian film director C.J. Obasi has been celebrated for its cinematography and its riveting storyline at the Afrika Eye Film Festival.

Mami Wata is the female West African water god still worshipped in Iyi, a fragile, matriarchal village redoubt against modernity. Writer-director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s third film makes Iyi a ...

Shot in transfixing black-and-white by Lílis Soares, director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s Sundance sensation beguiles with family tensions and spiritual dimensions.

No character has invoked her yet, but we already sense the immensity of Mami Wata, the mother-like water deity that appears across African myth and the diaspora. In a feat of miraculous cinema, ...