A New Day in Côte d’Ivoire?
The incumbent Alassane Ouattara’s electoral sweep might be a good outcome for Côte d’Ivoire.
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Beasts of No Nation and the child soldier movie genre
The film is doubly removed from the West Africa in which it was made and in whose name it claims to speak.
What is the university for?
We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.
The Community Video Education Trust
A digital collection that enhances understandings of the South African struggle against apartheid through the medium of film.
Robert Sobukwe’s Children
The members of Johannesburg rock band, The Brother Moves On, see themselves as Pan-Africanists.
The tyranny of distance, up close
The larger story of the United States’s rapidly expanding military interests and presence on the continent.
Maghreb Lyon
The immigrant Maghrebi experience in Lyon, France, as told through cassette tapes.
Guatemala’s blackface president
Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's new president, is basically a proxy for the country's very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.
