• Danny Hoffman

The physical and psychic ruins of colonial mining practice in a small town in Liberia.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

The erratic electricity supply in Nigeria is a metaphor for life there.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel

There is a long history of white artists representing black people in France, reproducing stereotypes and failing to capture the people they claim to represent.

• Maja van der Velden

Two sides of the same e-waste documentary.

• R. Joseph Parrott

The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.

• Max Nelson

The late Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety once said his films are not based on premeditation or planning.

• Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku

The new comedy 'Matwetwe' hits all the right chords to tell a story about the current place and time of South African youth.

• Maja van der Velden
• Martin Oteng-Ababio

The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called "largest electronic waste dump in the world."

• Nabil Ayouch
• Theo Zenou
• Joseph Pomp

A discussion with Nabil Ayouch, the French-Moroccan filmmaker, who captures the struggle for outsiders who exist in an oppressive society.

• Sydelle Willow Smith

Sunshine Cinema is repurposing a tool of 20th century European colonial and neocolonial capitalist domination.

• Bentley Brown

Med Hondo (1936-2019) was Morgan Freeman and Eddie Murphy in French. His first film premiered at Cannes in 1970. And in 1979 he wrote a manifesto: “What is the cinema for us?”

• Seun Babalola

I have the privilege to fight, argue or board a plane when I feel like I've had enough. The vast majority of women on the continent do not have that option.

• Duane Jethro

A documentary film about a black filmmaker and her struggles to make a film about Marike de Klerk.

• Noah Tsika

Poitier is a pioneer in Hollywood (the first black male actor to win an Oscar), but, like in most of his US acting roles, he also played it safe in African roles he took on.

• Ethel-Ruth Tawe

The film, "The Burial of Kojo," sparks a vital conversation about the intersections of heritage, politics, and spirituality in Ghana and in Africa at large.

• Lindsey Green-Simms

Director Wanuri Kahiu went to look for hopeful African love stories and made a lesbian love story, amid court sanctioned homophobia.

• Zoé Samudzi

The legacies of colonialism and the African slave trade on religious practices in the African diaspora.

• Bentley Brown

2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of Chad's first feature film, 'Bye Bye Africa.'

• Bolaji Kekere-Ekun
• Rafeeat Aliyu

Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The links between knowing history, media and political agency in northern Ghana.