Walking through the ruins of French Cameroon
A new documentary revisits how Mongo Beti used literature and political writing to confront the suppressed history of French colonial violence in Cameroon.
7 Article(s) by:
Zahra Moloo
Zahra Moloo is a Kenyan researcher, political ecologist and documentary filmmaker. Her work looks at violence, conservation and the forests of the Congo Basin
Making films against amnesia
The director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record — and help us remember differently.
Bill Gates and his technofix dream for the planet
Philanthrocapitalists are driving massively profitable schemes dressed up as eco-friendly, pro-poor solutions to climate disaster.
An ambivalent sense of belonging
Janet McIntosh's fascinating book, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, forces an interrogation of the past.
The crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Judi Rever's account of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath challenges the official narrative.
The hubris of western science
The tendency of science and research in the Western world to treat issues in isolation, as if one part has no relationship to larger webs of complex interconnection.
The ‘Brazil of Africa’
That's not a compliment. It is about how development institutions are financing land grabs in the Democratic Republic of Congo.