“Heart of Darkness”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2noQowyoKQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] I generally like French film director Claire Denis’ work. Her previous film set in an
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Africa on Film: Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds is a recently released short documentary by Dutch filmmaker, Saska Vredeveld (view the film
Enjoy Poverty
How Euro-Americans - directly and indirectly - interact with the Congolese: only as victims.
The Judge
HBO has selected the documentary, “Courting Justice”, by American filmmakers Ruth Cowan and Jane Thandi Lipman
Africa on Film: Out of Africa
While reviewing this week’s film, Out of Africa (1985), for our series Africa on Film, I
Obrigado, Pelé
A short film imagines what if Pele, who can claim to be the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time), scored his final international goal against Argentina, Brazil's greatest rival.
Dirty Paraffin is "genre-defying"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5hvSTsYTGk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] We’ve been following The Fader’s Pitch Perfect documentary series since the start of the World
African Child
The comedy "Get him to the Greek" is a forgettable vehicle for Russell Brand, except for the spoof music video "African Child" opening the film.
Coming to America
How much damage, if any, did "Coming to America" do to a generation of young Americans' views of Africa and Africans?
Adopting Africa
We should talk about American celebrities' obsession with adopting African babies. The mostly unfunny comedian Pauly Shore is not our guide.
Africa on Film: Tarzan!
Few other authors in the 19th and 20th centuries made greater contributions to Hollywood’s racist images
After the Bulldozers
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11738776 w=500&h=281] Beautifully shot short film about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving
Africa on Film: A New Series
We also aim to educate. Over the next few months, Allison Swank will commence a new
Film: Filip De Boeck's "Cemetery State"
The Belgian anthropologist Filip De Boeck (remember his excellent “Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City“) recently
Chocolate Thor
From broadcaster Esther Armah‘s Facebook page: Thought for the Day. Idris Elba, 6 ft 2, Chocolate
Boers and Bantus
Vintage clips, from 1961, of Nelson Mandela, ZK Matthews, Helen Joseph, among others, on a Dutch TV program talking liberation from white supremacy.
Rankin does South Africa
British fashion photographer Rankin sets out on 'his own personal journey' to understand South Africa. The result is actually quite good.
'Every single day is hot in Mozambique'
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10636093 w=500&h=281] I want to see more of this film: The slam poet, Capela, is shown
People's Culture
[vodpod id=Video.3322857&w=450&h=370&fv=] Priceless footage of 1980s Community Arts Project in Durban, which, according to one of
Film director Shelley Barry @ NYU
An Evening with Shelley Barry Wednesday, April 28, 2o1o At the next disTHIS!, South African filmmaker