Blaxploitation, Italian style
The stories of the Afro-Italian, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean actors and crews who helped shape Italy's film industry.
Film
A different kind of girl power
In recent years there has been a global convergence on the “girling of development”; in other
Senegalese struggles play out on screen
The 24th edition of the New York African Film Festival put Senegal in the spotlight, featuring five short films from there.
The second life of ‘Daughters of the Dust’
The classic film, first premiered in 1991, is making a comeback. Not least: Beyoncé’s visual album 'Lemonade' borrows liberally from Julie Dash's film. Why is the film so influential?
By the light of the arrivals gate
Guinea's electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country's postcolonial maladies
Power against Power in Ghana
Art – especially music – occupies a double-edged place in Ghanaian history in its relation to power.
Nigeria’s ‘brain drain’
The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.
Opening Angola’s past to public debate
The stories of those who fought on the frontlines, were imprisoned, or wanted to establish real democracy after independence in Angola.
The lives and times of Africans in Guangzhou
The film 'Guangzhou Dream Factory" is a rich account of the complexities of living in China as an African migrant.
The grapes of wrath
“For me personally, it seems as if modern day slavery is practiced on many farms, and
The Nigerians are coming
Nigerian cinema is finally being embraced outside Nollywood for its diversity and capacity to adapt to dramatic technological and infrastructural shifts.
Not standing on the sidelines anymore
A number of recently made, small budget films are doing the festival rounds. They give great insight into African women as actors, characters and filmmakers.
Colonial Sahara
The constant struggle of the Sahrawi to assert their identity in the face of a permanent occupation by Morocco.
No Victims and No Culprits
Congo needs fewer metanarratives from the West and more of Radio Tele Manika.
Ousmane Sembene invented a new cinema for Africa
An interview with Samba Gadjigo, the late Ousmane Sembene’s longtime friend and official biographer about the resurgence of Sembene’s work.
Still doing the right thing
It is eerie (and tragic) how relevant the themes of racial tension and structural violence of Spike Lee's 'Do the right thing' still is--both in America and South Africa.
In Africa, there should be djembe drums
For the last three months, we have been working on the sound design of my first
Are you an African artist?
Why are we so averse to acknowledging complexity, difference, subtlety and agency when it comes to art that emerges from and in Africa?
Suburban Bliss
Is the new benchmark in South African cinema “Happiness Is A Four Letter Word"?
What is happening at the Durban International Film Festival?
As with our last movie night post, we need to start with the bad news. 1.