Chris Ihidero

Writer. Director. Producer.

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

For the past four years, I have been writing what will be my first feature film in my head.

The idea first came to me in 2016 as we rounded off HUSH. I started outlining on the 25th of Jan, 2019. Finally found an appropriate name for the hero in 2019 too.

I'm excited.

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

If I catch Harlan Coben. SMH.

[Chioma Agwuegbo @ChiomaChuka]

For a few years, @TechHerNG has run a GBV Emergency Response Fund that provides money for survivors within 24 hours of approval. Yesterday, we resourced surgery for a 4-year-old girl who was raped so violently that her bladder ruptured. A 4-year-old. Death to rapists everywhere.

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

Nollywood will not extract maximum value from its value potential as long as the NTA isn’t its first home.

Because of NTA’s failure to do its statutory duties, Nollywood remains the motherless child that can’t afford to have a wound on its back.

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

YouTube is an ideal platform for the Nigerian can-do trading spirit. Shouldn’t surprise anyone Nollywood has found a home there.

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

Had a lot of fun chatting with @DoubleEph and Tobi Lawson recently in Lagos.

I’m a fan of @1914Reader podcast, Frontier Matters and talking about everything Nollywood and my upcoming film, Aloma, and was really cool.

Listen and subscribe to the podcast!

[1914 Reader @1914Reader]

New Frontier Matters episode: @Chrisihidero on Nollywood's Grass and Trees https://t.co/xhWByl2OvN

[Immersia_AnthillStudios @AnthillImmersia]

We had our first show yesterday. 120 kids aged 4-15 and over 50 adults. The show continues from Wednesday May 27… everyday till Sunday May 31st. Two shows per day. Buy tickets at https://t.co/7YKAA2i0ez

[Immersia_AnthillStudios @AnthillImmersia]

Shows about to start… but first let’s have fun!!! Buy tickets at https://t.co/7YKAA2i0ez

[Immersia_AnthillStudios @AnthillImmersia]

I don’t think people understand what’s going on with AI in visual effects. This took less than an hour.. it would have taken a week before. Anyway come see the real monster from May 27-31st at the Immersia theatre in Oregun. Buy tickets at https://t.co/7YKAA2i0ez

[deji toye @dejitoye]

This--Jumoke Verissimo's essay on form and poetry--I predict, will enter into anthologies and readers. I don't know which portion will achieve the memorability of Coleridge's "best words in their best order," but I propose this screenshot portion.
https://t.co/9hiqT8uHdP

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

If you’ve read A Very Gidi Christmas or A Nollywood Christmas (even if you haven’t), you should anticipate Tomilola Coco Adeyemo’s next novel, Efun’s Jazz, published by Masobe in Aug. Read her Substack post, a glimpse of what’s coming. https://t.co/F11deAq4cl

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

@dejitoye She definitely wasn’t a film critic of any note. And you’re right about Onoshe, probably the most important voice of that generation re TV/film.

[Malthouse Press Nigeria @malthouselagos]

✍🏽 Submissions for the Biyi Bándélé Bursary for Emerging Writers of the African Diaspora open on 1 June 2026

ℹ️ The Biyi Bándélé Bursary is a new initiative established by his family in partnership with Brixton House and Curtis Brown to honour his legacy.
#MalthousePressNigeria

[deji toye @dejitoye]

A great retrospective on the stars of 80s big screen, many who never survived into the video era. Think about Ramota Adaramola (female lead, eponymous "mother"). She was the original Oriṣabunmi of Jimoh Aliu's company. Also, Ray Eyiwumi's consulate performance as classist Judge.

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

By publishing the restored feature film Iya Ni Wura (originally released in 1984), the estate of the charismatic travel theatre actor turned filmmaker Adeyemi Afolayan, popularly known as Ade Love, has bridged at least two generations. Millennials and Gen Z film enthusiasts who were too young when Ade Love passed away at 56 in 1996 can watch at least one of his films on YouTube. The older generation can also reflect on what early Yoruba cinema looked like and on its similarities with Yoruba travel theatre and popular music traditions. 

In a recent post on X, I wrote about how the great thespian Herbert Ogunde is often remembered for his films and plays, but little is said about his music and his vibrant band, which once included an all-women horn section. Remembering Ade Love’s legacy as a lead actor, scriptwriter, director, producer and composer has been the effort of his family, not the Nigerian state. At the forefront of this is Kunle Afolayan, a leading filmmaker in his own right, who corrected a viral X tweet about the first lead actor to play identical twins in a Nollywood film. 

It was not Ramsey Nouah in Tade Ogidan’s Dangerous Twins; it is Ade Love in Iya ni Wura. Like most films of its time, as Professor Akin Adesokan opined, Nigerian cinema of this period, Iya ni Wura, is  “...heavy on dialogue and histrionics, and invested in supernatural themes”. I think it succeeds in its medley of interlocking social commentaries on the conflict between tradition and modernity, as well as on the metaphysical aspects of the twinning phenomenon among the Yoruba. It is also steeped in the social realism of the floundering postcolonial nation that was Nigeria in the 1980s. The conflict between record label owner illustrates this and his most popular musician staged both in the courtroom and elsewhere. The famous battle between Sunny Ade and his label boss Chief Abioro of Take Your Choice records may have been Ade Love’s source of inspiration.

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

I have seen Hamnet.
Hmmmm

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

The Pitt is really good. Really good.

[deji toye @dejitoye]

Biodun Jeyifo will be buried tomorrow in Ibadan, where he was born 80yrs ago. In this essay, I tried to establish his place in our intellectual history, as a leader among young post-Civil War thinkers who sought a sociopolitocal redirection of the country. https://t.co/0YaPl4TwfG

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

Just started watching this show. Really good television.

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@oladotunayeni @JustGiving @bhmng @F316Consulting Well done!

[Chris Ihidero @Chrisihidero]

@ms___dale *Chris gazes curiously at rows of Sebamed at Boots, wonders what the problem is here. He sighs at the thoughts of a genius child not being allowed to be great. Chris shudders as he walks away.*