
Martin Scorcese namechecks Ousmane Sembene
Scorcese not only restores prints of African cinema classics, he also counts Ousmane Sembene as one of cinema's greatest directors.
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Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.

Scorcese not only restores prints of African cinema classics, he also counts Ousmane Sembene as one of cinema's greatest directors.

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The case of Nigeria's missing president, Umaru Yar'Adua, can be added to the already long list of problems in Africa's largest democracy.

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Van Heerden was a fixture in Cape Town's jazz and alternative music scenes. His music is now available for purchase online.

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Batman watches Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro addressing US media in an imagined black-and-white 1959 photograph.

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A selection of news items, videos, music from and drive by commentary before I shut down for December 2009.

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Platon, the New Yorker staff photographer got many of the world's leaders to sit for portraits. A number of African leaders obliged.

The historian John Edwin Mason's photographs of Cape Town's New Year's Carnival.

Recently advertising and the movies in the West have have been hard on Nigerians. Even when they mean well.

Since it is Friday, I might as well put up a few music videos.

Manic Street Preachers pay homage to the greatest American of the first half of the twentieth century, Paul Robeson. The music video by Nigerian Andrew Dosunmu is a tribute too.