The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
As with our last movie night post, we need to start with the bad news. 1.
In some ways all women are the same. We bleed every moon until you hit a
In the late nineteen-fifties, a brutal but secret war unfolded between French colonial authorities and the
Cameroon's police apparently interrogated Samuel Eto'o and took away his passport over the team's World Cup display.
Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world.
Jean-Marie Teno's film, 'Une Feuille dans le Vent' (A Leaf in the Wind), lays bare the affective costs of public silence in Cameroon.
The mistake of directing the hardline scorn we reserve for say Madonna and Fox News at small independent filmmakers or young volunteers at NGO's in Africa.
A group of graduate students in New York photograph the city's immigrant and refugee communities, especially the African ones.
What would happen if the president goes missing? The people wouldn't care. They've learned to live without him.
No.17 in our regular update on new African films to watch.
Number 11 in our series where we ask photographers about their 5 favorite photographs; how and where the images were made.
Alice Nkom, the brave, activist lawyer, harassed and imprisoned by Cameroon's repressive regime on the government's actions: "Threats like these show us that the fight must continue.”
Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.
Is it France's interests to reform its unequal, exploitative relationship with Africans?
When the good Lord handed down the Decalogue to Moses atop Mount Sinai, he limited himself
Twelve years after ground was first broken on an oil pipeline between Chad and Cameroon, the
Taking up the fashionable concept of the book trailer, Edgar Sekloka, one half of French hip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZcQKYdWKoY Cameroon (‘Kamer’) hip hop is churning out lots of videos lately. Like this one by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6aGKw6dng Video for Douala rapper Kastra. I haven’t yet figured out what he means with “I’m