
James Baldwin on Film
The latest entry of the brilliance of James Baldwin on film, "I Am Not Your Negro," lays bare the fiction and terror of race in American life.

The latest entry of the brilliance of James Baldwin on film, "I Am Not Your Negro," lays bare the fiction and terror of race in American life.

Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' should be seen as part of the Afrofuturism genre, which offers physical and mental liberation through supernatural or non-realistic means.

Ranjith Kally (1925-2017), a legendary photographer, documented South African Indian life in famed magazine Drum.


If being Nigerian meant anything, the presidency wouldn’t be rotated every eight years between the North and South or along tribal lines.

How does rhetoric of a 1960’s failed secessionist state in Nigeria flow into a sleepy industrial city in southern China, amongst young Nigerian merchants, none of whom lived through the war themselves?

An in-depth look at the life and times of Winnie Madizikela-Mandela largely in her own words.


The mass murder of Nama and Herero by German colonists is now the subject of a documentary by the South African director, Vincent Moloi.

In the film, "Maman Colonelle," a Congolese policewoman takes on ghosts of the past.


The systemic challenges faced by black South Africans in even getting onto the field to play cricket in the first place.

The stories of the Afro-Italian, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean actors and crews who helped shape Italy's film industry.

The originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.



The decision to relocate Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks's home from Detroit to Berlin, Germany, is another case of white savior complex.

The film depicts the mutually transformative friendship of three “ethnically different” Nigerian young men in break with their elders' attitudes.


The re-emergence of racialized modes of thinking, racism and discrimination across the West, makes reading and re-reading Stuart Hall urgent.