The fragmentary character of memory
John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Nelson Mandela (Hollywood; plural)
Rumours are circulating on various Hollywood gossip and film blogs that Stringer Bell also known as
The confused lens of memory and trauma
The Rwandan film, "Grey Matter," is part of prestigious traveling film exhibition, the Global Film Initiative.
Nollywood and Hollywood
A Nollywood director has reached the dizzying heights of Hollywood, and all the famous names that come with it. What can happen?
The First Black Woman to win Sundance Best Director
Aava DuVernay leads a movement to organize African-American film festivals and secure theatrical releases for black independent films.
Thandie Newton is bi-racial, and not Igbo
Thandi Newton choice as a female lead in the screen adaptation of "Half of a Yellow Sun" has some people upset.
A photograph cannot give you concrete information
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji's work does engage with her personal history of Indians' expulsion from Uganda.
Africans in New York City
"Afro-Spectacle," a music and film event by DJ collective, Dutty Artz, explores the working class African immigrant experiences in the city.
In Search of Pancho Guedes
A new film goes in search of the renowned architect and some of his work in Maputo, capital of Mozambique in southeast Africa.
Paul Simon’s Graceland Reconsidered
Paul Simon's Graceland album and tour defied the cultural boycott, yet some argue it positively influenced South African music and politics in the late 1980s.
Egypt on Film
Aflam, a new Belgian "festival of Arab cinema," features seven new and recent films about Egypt in Brussels.
‘Fictional’ Cape Town
How Cape Town is used by advertising firms as a cheaper, stand-in location for Euro-American locations.
Sending South African miners home to die
Sick mineworkers condemned to rural South Africa, die there with little or no continuation of care, follow up, or chemotherapy.
The Top 10 African films of 2011
2011 was a good year for African cinema. In various cinema seats and at home, I’ve
Dosunmu's 'Restless City,' the best African film of 2011?
I finally got to see director Andrew Dosunmu’s debut feature film, “Restless City,” this summer (at the
Celebrating African women filmmakers
Two events in London this year focused on female filmmakers working in African cinema. This is
New Films
This list is partly self-indulgent. It is also a way–hopefully weekly–for me to keep an online
Adapting African literature for the screen
In a recent video interview (first spotted on film blog Shadow and Act), Kenyan film director
Cyberpunk Thriller
Zoo City is set in an alternate Johannesburg, where criminals or those who have serious moral failings, get landed with an animal familiar as a permanent attachment.
No one wants to talk about “the disease”
"Life Above All" has an unbelievable plot and heavy-handed social commentary, but Khomotso Manyaka's excellent performance and a strong supporting cast redeem it.