Culture

Yesterday and Tomorrow
Nine young filmmakers and artists look into Congo's histories, its present and future desires.

The Good Guys
This film "Mugabe and the White African," is too busy picking sides, to ignore and obscure land dispossession by Whites of Blacks, instead hoping to posit White farmers as outside of history.

The Scramble for Vinyl
The trend among rare-groove DJs to make money of "discovering" and "rediscovering" old vinyl in Africa and then rereleasing the music under their own labels.



The Liberation of Afrikaans
A new film - and play - want to mainstream Afrikaans' creole origins; a historical reality odds with Afrikaner nationalist visions of language.