This is not your conventional film about Liberia
Most films about Liberia are feature films or gritty documentaries focus almost perversely on the horrors of the civil war. Not “Out of my hand.”
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Aaron Leaf
Aaron Leaf is managing editor of OkayAfrica.
The Disneyfication of Ellen Sirleaf Johnson
The Liberian president mostly gets away with soft pedal press in the West at odds with how Liberians view her or her legacy.
Press Freedom in Liberia
Liberian journalists are measured against the ideals of Albert Porte, a muckraking mid-20th century reporter. These days they’re doing him proud.
Searching for Redemption
In “Searching for Sugar Man,” Rodriguez the man feels more like an awkward prop in a story of white redemption rather than the star of his own movie.
Is Mads Brügger a journalist?
The Danish filmmaker believes his work contains qualities missing from most conventional journalism. Especially journalism dealing with Africa