This thesis seeks to write a comprehensive history of documentary film in Africa, from the beginning of the cinema until the eve of independence in the late 1950s. It looks at documentary practice and ...

The film "Continent of Africa: Land Below the Sahara" explores the complex history and geography of Africa, particularly focusing on the impact of European colonization and the subsequent rise of ...

The film begins with a Congolese man opening a camera case and turning over its contents. This shot, which could easily be read as a symbolic shorthand for the technology of documentation being in the ...

The archive film centers on native Africans’ fight against colonialism in the 1960s and 1970s. It includes excerpts from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. The 1961 book presented analysis of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a ...

Africa is producing some of the world’s most captivating documentaries, a genre that allows filmmakers to tell riveting stories that revisit the past while challenging the inequities of the present.

A new HBO documentary explores the impact of Wizkid's music — internationally and in his native Nigeria Music Box: Wizkid: Long Live Lagos traces the artist's roots and Nigerian identity, and how his ...

We support the establishment of an African Platform for Environmental Justice, tasked with identifying affected areas, assessing the damage, supporting the States concerned, and formulating ...