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Girl, the debut feature from rising Glasgow talent Adura Onashile, will receive its UK premiere at the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival.

The Paris Philharmonic is devoting an immersive exhibition to the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, inventor of Afrobeat in the 1970s, who "had a real love affair with France."

The Brooklyn-based Afrobeat emissaries Antibalas have developed their own post-modern take on Fela Kuti’s legacy

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Actor aims to tell the Scottish poet’s story ‘using my whole body’ in a production at the 75th Edinburgh international festival in August

Lagos was the scene of some of Fela Kuti’s worst nightmares; where, in the 70s and 80s, he was badly beaten and jailed multiple times by a brutally

Listen to this playlist of Fela Kutis best songs from Rich Medina, the DJ who introduced an American generation to Afrobeat.

Ghosts Adura Onashile is a star on the rise. She wrote Expensive Shit, set in a Scottish toilet and Fela Kuti’s nightclub in Lagos, and was due to portray Medea at last year’s Edinburgh international festival. Her latest is an audio drama about empire, to be heard on a walk through Glasgow. Rider Spoke

The Skinny on… Adura Onashile As Adura Onashiles short film Expensive Shit arrives in film festival programmes this month, we quiz her about dream dinner guests and memories of the before-times Feature by The Skinny | 08 Mar 2021 Adura Onashiles short film Expensive Shit gets quite the airing in March. The project started life as a theatre production at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016, where it won a Fringe First award, and takes us inside a Glasgow nightclub to tell the story of...

Your tip sheet for navigating this year’s online Glasgow Film Festival. 22 February 2021 Minari (2020) Last year’s Glasgow Film Festival was one of the final film festivals in the world to proceed as planned as an in-person event, concluding just 3 days before the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic. In the 11 months since, British film festivals have shifted to largely online models, with some physical cinema arrangements depending on their timing i...