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The Community Video Education Trust
A digital collection that enhances understandings of the South African struggle against apartheid through the medium of film.

Robert Sobukwe’s Children
The members of Johannesburg rock band, The Brother Moves On, see themselves as Pan-Africanists.

The tyranny of distance, up close
The larger story of the United States’s rapidly expanding military interests and presence on the continent.

Maghreb Lyon
The immigrant Maghrebi experience in Lyon, France, as told through cassette tapes.


Guatemala’s blackface president
Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's new president, is basically a proxy for the country's very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.


You Want Another Rap
You can’t separate Drake from Toronto or Heems from Queens. Young Cardomom and HAB rap like they are from Kampala, Uganda. Because they are.

Fallism For What
After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.

Our Eleven Minute Film about Fees Must Fall
"Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation" lets mostly women students, mostly from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment.

Archiving black South African LGBTQI
Muholi on inspirations: "Audre Lorde will always be my favorite because she informed a lot of us, gave us a new way of thinking."