I am tired of doing this. Because it is getting predictable. The top-heavy and scattered Tribeca Film Festival starts tomorrow. There’s three Africa-related films on the schedule (correct me if my research was shoddy): a short from South Africa (“Father Christmas doesn’t come here“), a documentary about Rwanda’s genocide and a film that looks like being about the midlife crisis of an American in Cairo (above). There’s also two other films in which Africa is a part-focus (on deaths in child birth and on climate change). I know. Even worse, this is the fourth year (?) that Tribeca decided to partner with ESPN to show sports films. If you’re wondering there’s one sports film with a soccer theme: a film about the connection between the murders of the Colombian drug dealer, Pablo Escobar, and the football player, Andres Escobar, who was murdered 10 days after he scored an own goal for Colombia against the US in the 1994 World Cup.  I know. It had to have something to do with the US. Oh, and these are films already shown as part of ESPN’s 30th year anniversary on television.

Further Reading

Whose game is remembered?

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.

Sovereignty or supremacy?

As far-right politics gain traction across the globe, some South Africans are embracing Trumpism not out of policy conviction but out of a deeper, more troubling identification.

From Cape To Cairo

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

The road to Rafah

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.