Africa’s Premier League
The story of Africa's long-distance love affair with English football, told by fans in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya & DR Congo.
Film
This film is about revolution
Who, ultimately, can speak with authority on recent events in Egypt, and, more importantly, how?
Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs
Except for one-year, when Mohamed Morsi was President, modern Egypt has only been ruled by military regimes
Shadow and Axed
The latest installment of our film news series, #MovieNight.
It’s good for the future of cinema that Africa exists
Reviving our #MovieNight feature: A fortnightly feature rounding up movie news.
A Decade of Scotland’s Africa-in-Motion Film Festival
2015 marked the tenth anniversary of the Africa-in-Motion film festival, the showcase for African cinema in Scotland,
Akin Omotoso’s Hustle
To every passing person, he calls out variations of one question: "What film are you watching? Are you watching my film?
We watch movies (and trailers) for you
This is the first edition of a new weekly series of posts/listicles we’ll be doing to
The failure in understanding the Congo
The new documentary film, "We Will Win Peace," skillfully debunks many myths behind conflict minerals in the Congo.
Beasts of No Nation and the child soldier movie genre
The film is doubly removed from the West Africa in which it was made and in whose name it claims to speak.
Our Eleven Minute Film about Fees Must Fall
"Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation" lets mostly women students, mostly from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment.
The stories of Ghana’s young filmmakers
Heritage inspires content and art conjures thought. With this ethos guiding us, Rebecca Oheneasah Hesse and I launched
The technological circuits of the African diaspora
Given this history of Black dispersal and displacement, what might a liberatory mobility look like?
The holy fire that burns in the home
An interview with Richard Pakleppa, director of 'Paths To Freedom', a film on Namibian liberation.
Awkward is the New Black
Our short film of the creator and star of "Awkward Black Girl," Issa Rae, whose father is Senegalese and mother is African American and who spent part of her childhood in Dakar.
How a child deals with loss
For the first time, an Ethiopian film, "Lamb," was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. We interviewed director Yared Zeleke.
New South African feature ‘Endless River’ makes film history
South African film director and auteur Oliver Hermanus has made film history this week and his
The Dream is Free
A documentary film follows basketball Serge Ibaka on his return to the country of his birth, The Republic of Congo.
African films in Colombian cinemas
How would Colombian audiences react to films from Africa?
Freedom, youth and remembrance
In the documentary "Remembered Futures" the filmmakers interrogate the ways South Africans understand their own history and how this affects their futures.