In pictures: The glamour of Nigerian American femmes
Inspired by Old Nollywood aesthetics, photographer Marc Baptiste’s new photo series follows a group of ‘beautiful, confident’ women as they gallivant through Brooklyn
Black News 
As a child, Nollywood films frightened me. My mum would watch Nigerian movies while she braided my hair, and I’d often dread hearing the screechy, unstable audio and references to witches and juju that would keep me up at night. But even as I feared these films, I also struggled to look away. My eyes were especially glued to the large, melodramatic performances of the women actors; thesehellip;
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