The Wizard of Zimbabwe
What do you when your 70 year old South African father wants to meet Robert Mugabe for his birthday. Make a film about it.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
A beautiful vision of resistance
“Timbuktu,” the first film by an African-born black filmmaker to be nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar, transcends the present.
Romance and the average Yoruba girl
Are quirky white people with thriving, trendy careers in New York City, the only ones to find love?
The average person in Uganda
Ugandans are confronted by a cultural and political paradigm which pushes a preference for Western lives and lifestyles from multiple angles.
I hate Spur!
Nothing about the popular SPUR restaurant chain in South Africa is Native North American.
What if black people inverted South Africa’s township tours?
Two black Capetonians went to rich Camps Bay and filmed white people going on about their lives.
Some problems between the people and the police
What Egypt’s latest football tragedy says about social divisions in the country.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Hawa Essuman
Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like “African stories” is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.
The hierarchy of refugee stories
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
Do we really need new street names?
The renaming of a popular Cape Town road after Apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, opens the debate about memorials in postapartheid South Africa.
Stuart Hall in Africa
Though Hall’s work was written from the vantage point of the black immigrant experience in the UK, some of it resonated in South Africa.
Economics has an Africa problem
There is an established tradition in Economics of talking about Africa from afar, western scholars leading the discussion.
Party like its 1999
Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.
Yes, we have some #AdviceForYoungJournalists
It's been a glorious week for journalism, hasn't it? Those fearless warriors for truth and justice,
The West are not those most affected by terrorism
Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s film “Timbuktu” complicates the Jihadist narrative in Africa.
The Grammys are irrelevant
Why are the Grammys so clueless about what is contemporary Latin pop music? They keep handing out awards to veterans like Ruben Blades or Vicente Fernández.
#SAHipHop2014: When South African Hip Hop Met The Internet
It’s all my father’s fault! Sometime towards the end of the nineties, I remember him bringing
The African Rock Art Digital Archive
Last summer, I got the chance to visit the Origins Museum on the University of the
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Jim Chuchu
The Nairobi-based filmmaker and musician aims to bring stories, pictures and sound together to create something immutable on the screen.
Maputo’s masked Mapiko dancers
A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country’s post-socialist modernity through dance.