• Noah Tsika

Dare Olaitan’s film Ojukokoro gets some room to breathe in New York, after being stifled at the box office in Lagos.

• Aboubakar Sanogo

Burkinabe filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo was a singular talent in African cinema. His films championed marginalized people and cultures.

• Shona Kambarami

How the celebrated film Black Panther stacks up in its depiction of decolonized African feminism.

• Marta Tveit

It is nice to see two female leads in an African film that are not doing hair, casting some sort of ju-ju curse or throwing vases at cheating husbands.

• Peter Limb

Solomon Mahlangu was a famed liberation fighter in South Africa hanged by Apartheid in 1979. His legacy is the subject of a new film.

• Ainehi Edoro
• Bhakti Shringarpure

In the Global North, Africa never inspires radically new terms of representation. It always presents itself as an entity grounded in an anthropological reality.

• Matthew J. Smith

Long before Walter Rodney wrote 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,' he was profoundly shaped by his studies in Jamaica.

• Russell Rickford

Anyone committed to an expansive concept of Pan-African liberation must regard 'Black Panther' as a counterrevolutionary film.

• Noah Tsika

The book 'Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire' takes a journalistic approach to that industry without falling back on the bombast of most popular accounts.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

An interview with the South African director and writer of 'Five Fingers for Marseilles,' a Western set in that country, and starring an all black cast.

• Wilfred Okiche

“A Hotel Called Memory” concerns itself with elements of mood and scene and downplays aspects relating to plot or story.

• Nikkie Wiegink

The violence of Mozambique's civil war between 1976 and 1992 is generally silenced. Very little of the war’s history has been written down. 

• Wangui Kimari

What characterizes daily life in Kenya: a seemingly simultaneous flagrant zest for life and hesitant fascination with death.

• Noah Tsika

Nigerian filmmakers are embracing the short form as more than just a cinematic calling card.

• Kenichi Serino

There have been few protests in South Africa’s post-Apartheid history that are as documented as Fees Must Fall. Add Aryan Kaganof’s “Metalepsis in Black” to the list.

• Didi Cheeka

What personal and collective memory is evoked when we encounter films from a historical period?

• Káyọ̀dé Fáníyì

What's missing from feminist readings of Nollywood romantic comedy 'Isoken' are readings that gets at the film's racial politics.

• Wangui Kimari

The vivid cinematography of "Waithira," a film about Kenya, aside, the author would have preferred more knots to be tied and a little less untethering.

• Rich Blint

The latest entry of the brilliance of James Baldwin on film, "I Am Not Your Negro," lays bare the fiction and terror of race in American life.

• Katarina Hedrén

Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' should be seen as part of the Afrofuturism genre, which offers physical and mental liberation through supernatural or non-realistic means.