• William Shoki

On the next AIAC Talk, we’re talking about African film and TV in the age of streaming. Stream it live Tuesday on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.

• Sara Hanaburgh

Imagine if African films could enjoy shooting and editing on the continent, uninhibited by national and international politics.

• Taiwo Egunjobi

Director Taiwo Egunjobi disavows Nollywood’s penchant for crass comedies and maudlin dramas.

• Naima Kane

Dieudo Hamadi’s film 'Downstream to Kinshasa' is a powerful antidote to the DRC's collective amnesia around the Six-Day War and its aftermath.

• Sara Hanaburgh

The performative documentary 'Sun of the Soil' restores the historical record of the 'great king' of Mali, Mansa Musa.

• Anthony Johnson

How economic disparities, inequities, and opportunities occur side by side in Lesotho.

• Benjamin Talton

Thomas Sankara has emerged as both a lesson on the uncertainties of revolutionary change and the possibilities for people-centered development for the present and future.

• Vishnu Bachani

Nigeria’s 2021 submission to the Oscars probes the psychology and propaganda of militant jihadism through the eyes of two sisters.

• Rasna Warah

The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.

• Vishnu Bachani

Prince Louis Rwagasore, also known as “Burundi’s Lumumba," has been reduced to a political tool by the country's elite, but artists are doing his legacy justice.

• Wilfred Okiche

How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the protests of #EndSARS?

• André Soares

Angolans have made themselves in and out of Angola, in conversation with the world; they carry with them the deep look of permanent uncertainty. But also take with them the smile of resistance.

• André Soares

Ekwa Msangi, realizadora Tanzaniana-Americana, mostra a história de muitos imigrantes com a experiência de uma família angolana de imigração.

• Eke Ndukwe Kalu

Nigerian cinema is obsessed with films about the wealthy. Can class politics shine through?

• Haythem Guesmi

The history of Africa involves navigating utopian visions and brutal realities as the recent work of Egyptian filmmaker Tamer el-Said's and before that, Ayi Kwei Armah show.

• Dika Ofoma

Director Abba T. Makama's 'The Lost Okoroshi,' attempts to unpacks identity through masquerades in an increasingly ethnocentric Nigeria.

• Wilfred Okiche

The Nigerian drama 'Òlòtūré,' about sex work and sex trafficking in the country’s commercial capital, which premiered on Netflix, is mostly uncomfortable. And not in a good way.

• Lindsey Green-Simms

The new short film "Ifé" is a moving story about the delights and difficulties of human relationships.

• Vishnu Bachani

A new documentary about Equatorial Guinea and the exiled writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel provides an honest, critical examination of the country's political, social, and cultural issues.

• Wanuri Kahiu

The director of Kenyan film 'Rafiki' discusses leading the struggle against state sponsored censorship in Kenya right now.