
Lagos street boys
Filmmaker Tolulope Itegboje humanizes the maligned area boys of Nigeria's commercial capital; presenting them with an opportunity to share their stories.
Filmmaker Tolulope Itegboje humanizes the maligned area boys of Nigeria's commercial capital; presenting them with an opportunity to share their stories.
Muammar Gaddafi occupies a contested space in the histories of postcolonial Africa. What about his Libyan opponents?
An interview with the filmmakers, Ousmane Samassekou and Aïcha Macky, about their films: two stunning documentaries creating new narratives about migration.
The intimate connection between the horror unleashed on Europe's Jews and the preceding centuries of atrocities perpetrated by the "Enlightened" West on those they colonized and enslaved.
The film "Finding Sally" grapples with Ethiopia's past, but may romanticize its present.
A new documentary focuses on using the soil’s carbon absorbent properties to solve the climate change problem.
Imagine if African films could enjoy shooting and editing on the continent, uninhibited by national and international politics.
Dieudo Hamadi’s film 'Downstream to Kinshasa' is a powerful antidote to the DRC's collective amnesia around the Six-Day War and its aftermath.
The performative documentary 'Sun of the Soil' restores the historical record of the 'great king' of Mali, Mansa Musa.
How economic disparities, inequities, and opportunities occur side by side in Lesotho.
Prince Louis Rwagasore, also known as “Burundi’s Lumumba," has been reduced to a political tool by the country's elite, but artists are doing his legacy justice.
A new documentary about Equatorial Guinea and the exiled writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel provides an honest, critical examination of the country's political, social, and cultural issues.
A new documentary about China's colonization of Malawi reveals how one colonial hand opens the door for another.
Political activist and award winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi wants to remake Kenyan politics. A new film charts his journey.
Rehad Desai's film celebrates the investigative journalists who expose the corruption of Zuma's regime in South Africa, comes with a depressing note: To date, no one has gone to jail.
What can we learn from the 256 hours of audio recordings of the 1964 Rivonia Trial's proceedings?
The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.
Because of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda occupies a complicated place in the world’s imagination. A new film, about the preceding 1973 pogrom, wants to demystify that view. Does it succeed?
A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.
A post-colonial visual meditation on archive, memory, and colonial violence.