Olaoluwa, a young and promising Nigerian filmmaker was said to have been shooting at a location in Ogun State before he ...

communes with Mami Wata, a water goddess who provides good harvests and grants Efe powers to heal the sick. But Efe’s powers seem to dim after one of her daughters, Zinwe (Uzoamaka Aniunoh ...

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 ...

and tones using water and beaches in “Mami Wata.” In one shot, the ocean looks like textured stained glass. In another, drops of water glisten off of a man’s forehead like a constellation of ...

On the beach two women stand, deep in discussion about the unseen woman in the water. Her name is Mami Wata, a goddess with whom their community is falling out of faith. A boy has died and she did ...

Mami Wata is set in the remote West African village of Iyi, where Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata, the synopsis reads.

When we worry about rainfall, pollution and the creeping privatization of water supplies, perhaps we wish we could appeal to some superhuman agency for deliverance. All of which makes "Mami Wata ...

The film takes place in Iyi, the village where Mami Wata, the water deity of West Africa and its diaspora cultures, has reigned via her intermediary Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) for decades.

Mami Wata is set in the remote West African village of Iyi, where Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata, the synopsis reads.

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 ...