• 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.

• Hannah Borenstein

When a young Ethiopian, Haile Gerima, made a film about the exploitative nature of American college sports and the role of Black athletes in society.