Friday, March 23rd, 2012
In an astoundingly ambitious new series of 12 feature-length documentaries titled The Price of Kings (available to watch online) the British production company Spirit Level Films challenge the perception of leadership in provocative and imaginative ways. Through a creative counterpoint between historical ‘truth’ and memory, and supported by powerful archival material, the series thoughtfully and
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Rumours are circulating on various Hollywood gossip and film blogs that Stringer Bell also known as Idris Elba — the East London boy made good in Hollywood — is next in line to play Nelson Mandela. Surfing...
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Today, 22 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked free from a prison outside Cape Town. Four years later, in April, the ANC won South Africa’s first democratic elections and in May 1994, Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s...
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Nelson Mandela elicits divergent, incorrect and unrealistic reactions among his detractors and supporters.
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Friday, September 30th, 2011
So three of Nelson Mandela’s grandchildren will star in their own reality television show for South African television. The show will go on air in 2012. The main characters will be sisters Swati Dlamini-Manaway (34), and Zaziwe...
Outer Space
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March 6
6 Mar 2011 at 8:59 pm
‘A guide to the rest of Africa’
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T.I.A. (The Poster Edition)
8 Dec 2010 at 7:30 am
The Unfinished Revolutions
18 May 2012 at 10:50 am
Football is the Opposite of Politic...
22 Mar 2011 at 11:00 am
Renouncing the Rhino
12 Dec 2012 at 3:00 am
The Whitney Soundtrack
14 Feb 2012 at 9:00 am
Performing democracy in Zimbabwe
21 Jan 2013 at 6:03 am
