
Just like in a science fiction movie
Black South Africans' concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.
Black South Africans' concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.
The film, "Veejays," comes across as an earnest attempt to learn about the ways people are remixing dominant culture industries to make their own.
I was surprised to find very few films by African directors in this year’s programme of
Here are another 10 films we’re hoping to see in the (near) future. First, three “fiction”
Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6F553L17g ‘I am Malawi’ is a short documentary by Geert Veuskens and Pieter de Vos. (Part
There needs to be another solution than free market capitalism globally to promote artistic creativity. The experience from Sierra Leone is not encouraging.
At the recent Film Africa film festival in London, the new Ethiopian feature film “Atletu” (The
By Basia Lewandowska Cummings We British are very good at honoring the dead. Last Friday Prime
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic 'greatest hits' and childhood wonder on film.
A critic of the documentary film, "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975," concludes that as an insight into black power, the documentary is utterly incoherent and useless.
Film Review by Elliot Ross* Making a film about an artist whose work is as beautiful
I'm still waiting for that entrepreneur who'll start a Netflix for African films. I'll be a customer.
The filmmaker hopes Congolese in Belgium can be given a stage to offer their own history and projections of Congo.
Who are the Kenyans who needed a soap opera as an impetus to change their attitudes about political violence and why did they need it?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5hvSTsYTGk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] We’ve been following The Fader’s Pitch Perfect documentary series since the start of the World
British fashion photographer Rankin sets out on 'his own personal journey' to understand South Africa. The result is actually quite good.
[vodpod id=Video.3322857&w=450&h=370&fv=] Priceless footage of 1980s Community Arts Project in Durban, which, according to one of
Sorious Samura joined African migrants trying to make it to Europe for menial jobs and loneliness.
European media's lopsided attempts to make sense of South Africa ahead of the World Cup, continues.