• Tom Devriendt

This new batch of films are set in Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Sudan, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius.

• Shamira Muhammad

A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?

• Tom Devriendt

• Wills Glasspiegel

The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

Number 3 in our series of short descriptions of ten new African films to watch out for.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Dan Moshenberg

• Marissa Moorman

The posters are tied to the Ghanaian and Nollywood film industries that emerged in the late 1980s.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

I participated in Sight & Sound's once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time. I included at least two African films: "Borom Sarrett" and "Mapantsula." Hopefully, they make the cut.

• Dylan Valley

• Tom Devriendt

• Basia Cummings

Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.

• Evelyn Owen

Africa-focused sci-fi films redirects science fiction so that it becomes a fissure in which new subjects can be seen and heard. One question, however, is who makes these films.

• Basia Cummings

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

• Basia Cummings

'Dear Mandela' questions whether the history of South Africa's ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC's power head on.

• Loren A Lynch

Denzel Washington's new thriller, "Safe House," plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can't tell. That's deliberate.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.

• Megan Eardley

The fantasies of Blackwater, the Michigan firm of mercenaries and as contractor to imperial powers. Also, how it employs Africa as a rhetorical device to get more business.