• Masauko Chipembere

A new documentary about China's colonization of Malawi reveals how one colonial hand opens the door for another.

• Julie MacArthur

Political activist and award winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi wants to remake Kenyan politics. A new film charts his journey.

• William Shoki

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.

• Liz Timbs

What can we learn from the 256 hours of audio recordings of the 1964 Rivonia Trial's proceedings?

• Jordan G. Teicher

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.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

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?

• Serawit Bekele Debele

A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.

• Duane Jethro

A post-colonial visual meditation on archive, memory, and colonial violence.

• Shahenda Suliman

Capturing the absurdity of everyday life in Sudan under, now ousted President, Omar al Bashir.

• Danê Jaheem Sosaba

Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.

• Matt Carotenuto

A new documentary film tells a tale of everyday class, religious, and educational contestations around land in Kenya.

• Tsogo Kupa

For this group, politics is often framed as a series of never-ending discussions about social justice: The experience from South Africa.

• Lissell Quiroz

New French film on decolonization in Africa and Asia incapable of avoiding the Eurocentrism the filmmakers wanted to steer clear of.

• Yousef Khalil

Meryam Joobeur’s film, Brotherhood explores Tunisia's outsized role in the Syrian conflict.

• Kristof Titeca

A new film about Kony 2012 is a lesson in how not to fight simplification with more simplification.

• Jordan G. Teicher

Mitigating climate change's impact on the Sahel by planting trees across it, is not enough. Averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.

• Nathan Yardy

While Sisulu's political career is less celebrated than Nelson Mandela, it was as remarkable.

• Steve Howard

The guardians of women's femininity and virtue and their use of public space come up against a women's football team in the Sudanese capital.

• Boima Tucker

How socialist Cuba's foreign policy of solidarity with Africans, midwifed a new genre of music on the island.

• Lindsey Green-Simms

A new documentary film aims to promote awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ in a country where living openly as a gay woman is often a silent and secret struggle.