Culture
Casting Djimon Hounsou
Actor Djimon Hounsou doesn't take his own advice about the media he makes about Africa.
World famous in South Africa
Detriot singer Sixto Rodriguez’ albums are masterpieces - at times on par with some of Bob Dylan's work - but he was only famous in South Africa
Louis Moholo’s Drum
The drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, now 72 and the last surviving member of the famed jazz bands The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breath, is still out there performing.
A visual history of African LGBTQ
A quick review of films showing at two festivals with a focus on gay people: The Out in Africa Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Out in Africa
Writing gays and lesbians into the political and social history of South Africa – a history from which LGBT people are so often obscured and ignored.
The Afrikaans Film Template
Feature films produced for the Afrikaans market in South Africa, have many distinctive characteristics, including that they're exclusively white.
Letter to the Republic
The duplicity of France's ruling classes preoccupy most of this week's entry - number 10 - of Paris Is a Comment.
There is nothing left in Alexandria
In Egypt, the revolutions of the present may, in the future, become the failed revolutions of the past.