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How to make a movie about Muslims
The South African comedy drama, "Material," portrays Muslims and Islam without resorting to the regular comedic clichés and slapstick.
Reverse Colonization
How the economic crisis in Portugal has sent the Portuguese to the shores of former colonies in search of employment.
A Spaza Shop Job
Postapartheid South African music culture is one big cut and paste job.
The Truth and Reconciliation Film
On the screen, South Africa's TRC has invariably been sensationalized into a showcase of trauma-as-entertainment.
Spoek Mathambo’s World
The Soweto-born rapper-producer talks his biography and his influences.
The fragmentary character of memory
John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.