In that existentialist state, Obasi had a vivid black-and-white vision of the mermaid-like deity known across West Africa as Mami Wata. “She was standing in the ocean with locks of hair dripping ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dekanalog has picked up North American rights to the Sundance competition title Mami Wata, the third feature film from Nigerian filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi. Based on West African ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi debuts his third feature Mami Wata in competition at Sundance later this month. Today, Deadline can share a first-look clip from the film.

Director C.J. Obasi’s Mami Wata is a monochromatic feast for the eyes that wants you to think about what it means to believe in something larger than yourself. Director C.J. Obasi’s Mami Wata ...

Dekanalog releases the film in select theaters on Friday, September 29. Mami Wata is a multifaceted figure whose personae is as diverse as the diaspora that venerates her. A patroness of beauty ...

You don’t need to believe in the generosity of an ancient water deity to be transfixed by Nigerian director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s folklore melodrama “Mami Wata.” Respecting the ...

The film Mami Wata is doing something different. Firstly, while many (well-made) films set on the African continent — at least those made by Africans themselves anyway — often take the time to ...

A rebellion begins to simmer, preparing the way for an emerging era. In “Mami Wata,” the archetypes are familiar, but they work to make this Nigerian film a distinctly economical masterpiece.

Simi is Mami Wata — one of seven mermaids created by the Yoruba deity Yemoja. When the first West Africans were abducted and enslaved by the Portuguese and taken from their lands, Yemoja ...

Yet there is one that rises above the others in the pantheon, and her name is Mami Wata: a goddess of the water who, much like the realm she presides over, has the power to give life and to take ...