Nollywood 3.0
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/03/nollywood-3-0
Independently produced Nigerian films face a tough road in today’s increasingly consolidated environment. Nigerian multiplex chains continue
Nollywood 3.0
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Independently produced Nigerian films face a tough road in today’s increasingly consolidated environment. Nigerian multiplex chains continue
A cinema of dissent
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Burkinabe, African and world cinemas have lost one of their most singular voices. Idrissa Ouédraogo, the director of
Nipsey’s immigrant hustle
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In mid-February 2018, rapper Nipsey Hussle released his first studio album, Victory Lap, a paean to his complicated
Do we need another David Goldblatt show at a prominent museum?
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David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzy, and Zanele Muholi are the South African photographers frequently showcased
African storytime with George Clooney and John Prendergast
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The actor George Clooney and the human rights activist John Prendergast are determined to make us believe their story: the cause of civil war
The Angolan regime’s least favorite journalist
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The journalist Rafael Marques is the most prominent anti-corruption campaigner in Angola. For that, he has been
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Wakanda’s feminist scorecard
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Black Panther is a pretty standard superhero origin story centered around T’Challa, the new King and protagonist, who faces
The peculiar nostalgia for the former Bantustans in South Africa
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In January this year Lucas Mangope – one of the most notorious Bantustan leaders in South Africa –
The peculiar nostalgia for Bantustan homelands in South Africa
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In January this year Lucas Mangope – one of the most notorious Bantustan leaders in South Africa –
African feminism in Wakanda? Well… kinda.
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“Black Panther” is a pretty standard superhero origin story centered around T’Challa, the new King and protagonist, who faces
And what for future generations in Sierra Leone ?
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Sierra Leone’s civil war from 1991-2002 was widely viewed as fueled by a crisis of youth.
#MeToo, Africa too ?
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The success of the #MeToo campaign in 2017 has undoubtedly empowered many survivors of sexual abuse to talk
Check out our new clothes
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Africa Is a Country relaunches their new website under the banner of the Jacobin Foundation.
When Rex Tillerson toured some of Africa’s “shithole” countries
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The African Union’s partners still fund significantly more of its budget than its member states, which
What is behind the economic crisis in Sudan?
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With a weak and divided opposition that lacks a comprehensive plan for a political transition, the
The shadow networks that govern migration across Africa
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The global refugee crisis has resulted in over 65 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, with 20 people displaced
Addressing the genocide in Namibia
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It took almost 110 years until the German government was willing to accept the classification of
Love and life on the flipside of Dar es Salaam
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It is nice to see two female leads in an African film that are not doing
Love and life on the flipside of Dar es Salaam
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The Tanzanian film collective Kijiweni Productions, with filmmaker Amil Shivji at the helm, wants to “create a platform for all kinds of stories that do justice to a culture of resistance and resilience. To tell our tales from the continent; those that are either unheard of, only whispered about and/or are told from a ‘single story’.” To that end they released their…
Addressing the genocide in Namibia
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner Colonial rule in “German South West Africa” (1884-1915) was a relatively short period during the final stages of the so-called Scramble for Africa. But in even a shorter period of time (1904-1908) it marked a military encounter, which today is termed the Namibian War.…