5 New Films to Watch Out For, N°30
From the director and singer-actors of the 2005 film U-Carmen eKhayelitsha comes a new “opera” film.
Sudan
Benefit Packages
Israel to African nations: take our asylum seekers and we will give you arms.
Philosophy and dancing outside the European tradition
A couple of weeks ago Hamid Dabashi’s article “Can Non-Europeans Think?” was making the usual hype motions on
Literary Sudans
The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans," is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.
Discovering a country through film
Number 3 in our series of short descriptions of ten new African films to watch out for.
In Sudan, women set the spark
The women of Sudan have had enough. On the evening of June 16, 2012, women dormitory
African Asylum Seekers in Israel
Guest Post by Anonymous* If you follow current headlines, you may have noticed a seemingly new
We’ve always been migrating
A film about a Sudanese migrant to America explores a general fact of contemporary existence.
The Sudanese pioneer of African cinema
In 1969, Gadalla Gubara and his friends, Ousmane Sembene, Timité Bassori and Mustapha Alassane came up with an idea: FESPACO.
The Two Sudans
On July 6 2011, the world’s diplomatic elite flocked to one of the globe’s most underdeveloped
Football Underdogs and Politricks
The fortunes of Sudan and Equatorial Guinea at AFCON 2012. The latter especially, a squad cobbled together by naturalizing players from Brazil and Spain.
The Sudan Report
Omar al-Bashir has a bigger problem than the ICC: Ordinary citizens, including the middle classes, taking to the streets against the effects of austerity on their lives.
A road accident doesn't make a revolution
Recent demonstrations in Sudan’s capital Khartoum over road conditions and traffic signals have led some observers
'First Time in Sudan Africa'
Another one of those videos I was forwarded over the break. It’s become something of a
This is Africa: Sudanese TV in Dubai Edition
Sudan's vast diaspora in the Gulf reflected in media available via satellite in Dubai.
Bangs: A Fine Mess
Bangs, the Australian rapper of Sudanese descent, who has made mediocrity into an art form, makes
Saving Darfur
More than a year later these lines–written by journalist Eamon Kircher-Allen as part of the reaction
Do you know Omar al Bashir?
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan's president.
The Sudanese architect
The film "Limbo" covers the frustated life and dreams of Sudanese immigrant and trained architect, Issam.
The Worse Rapper on The Internets?
That’s the only way to explain the “career” of the really bad rapper, Bangs (Sudan-born, Australian-based),