• Yousef Khalil

Meryam Joobeur’s film, Brotherhood explores Tunisia's outsized role in the Syrian conflict.

• Kristof Titeca

A new film about Kony 2012 is a lesson in how not to fight simplification with more simplification.

• Daniel Okechukwu

Filmmaker Akin Omotoso shows the Lagos that pushes the sane to insanity, the meek to thuggery and the lawful to anarchy.

• Jordan G. Teicher

Mitigating climate change's impact on the Sahel by planting trees across it, is not enough. Averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.

• Daniel Steyn

South African film production house kykNET's dominance skews storytelling on the country's screens.

• Nathan Yardy

While Sisulu's political career is less celebrated than Nelson Mandela, it was as remarkable.

• Steve Howard

The guardians of women's femininity and virtue and their use of public space come up against a women's football team in the Sudanese capital.

• Boima Tucker

How socialist Cuba's foreign policy of solidarity with Africans, midwifed a new genre of music on the island.

• Zachary Mondesire

Director Hajooj Kuka's first feature film focuses on the contours of masculinity and the contradictions of war in Sudan.

• Nuotama Bodomo

In the 50th year since humans first landed on the moon, we take you back to Zambia's attempt to achieve that feat.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In Cape Town, gangs have come to dominate social and economic life for the city’s mostly coloured working class.

• Lindsey Green-Simms

A new documentary film aims to promote awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ in a country where living openly as a gay woman is often a silent and secret struggle.

• Haythem Guesmi

Fanon is your revolutionary's revolutionary. His life and work continue to inspire and empower a new generation of dreamers and fighters.

• Noah Tsika

At this year's New York African Film Festival, we saw films united by key thematic concerns, some of them quite unexpected.

• Daniel Okechukwu

Africa is apparently hot in Hollywood, but can Hollywood be trusted with African stories?

• Hannah Borenstein

What a documentary film on running can tell us about Ethiopia's development trajectory.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

A documentary film takes Fanon's ideas out of the past and tracks the ways in which his ideas are resonating with today's young across the planet.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

A commentary on how Egyptian society treats the abandoned, disabled, or those suffering from ailments and thus deemed a risk.

• Paolo Israel

The film 'The Sound of Masks' explores dance, memory and the meaning of life, ancestry, culture and political struggle in postcolonial Mozambique.

• Noah Tsika

Director Dare Olaitan’s Knock Out Blessing (2018), is nothing less than a meditation on rape culture.