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A remarkable amount of new films in recent months have used migration, detention and illegal sea crossings as their subject matter.
The film, “Come Back, Africa,” first released in 1959, challenged how white liberals imagined black people or tried to shape their struggles in South Africa.
A locally produced arts festival creates panic for Angola’s authoritarian government, who has, predictably, responded with panic and repression.
Kenyan activists raise their voices, placards and fists over US$500 million allocated but not yet spent for anti-retroviral medications. That’s a lot of money, drugs, and lost lives.
Malians have little patience for Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali’s former president, deposed in a coup on 22 March.
Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.
Britain’s secret service, MI5, passed on sensitive information to their Libyan colleagues to torture dissidents.
Globetrotter’s organizing logic may be a bit elusive, but the content itself is often quite captivating.
A comment on the enigmatic, and ambivalent, presence of rebel leader and former president, Charles Taylor, ten years after he left Liberia.
The video, “African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes,” made by an American NGO, is part of the “Brand Africa” discourse that’s all the rage now.
Djibril Diop Mambéty’s film “Touki Bouki” is an excellent example of how the contemporary can be read through the (re)construction of myths and narratives from a collective memory.
One of the striking facts of Nabil Ayouch’s film is that Israelis love the land and the Palestinians love it too.