For Lovers of African Art
The African animation, VFX, and Video games industries have the potential to become a growth engine for the continent. We are witnessing the growth of various African animation firms and animators working on appealing...
Africa was predominantly represented by Western filmmakers throughout the colonial era. Western filmmakers depicted black Africans as “exoticized,” “submissive workers,” or “savage or cannibalistic” in the first decades of the twentieth century. See, for...
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is a 2019 Mosotho dramatization movie coordinated by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and co-created by Cait Pansegrouw and Elias Ribeiro. The film stars Mary Twala Mhlongo, with...
Ahmed Rachedi (born 1938) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for the film Z (1969), which he helped produce. His 1971 film L’Opium et le Bâton was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film...
Chronicle of the Years of Fire ( French: Chronique des Années de Braise; these names both mean “Chronicle of the Years of Embers”) is a 1975 Algerian drama historical film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It depicts the Algerian War of Independence as seen through...
The Battle of Algiers (Italian: La battaglia di Algeri) is a 1966 war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. It is based on events undertaken by rebels during the Algerian War (1954–1962) against the French government in North Africa, the most prominent...
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina born in M’sila in 1934 is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1975 film Chronicle of the Years of Fire. He is one of the most prominent...
During the period of French colonization, motion pictures were transcendently a misleading publicity instrument for the French pioneer state. Albeit shot in Algeria and saw by the neighborhood populace, by far most of “Algerian”...
Elechi Amada said that “An African writer who really wants to interpret the African scene has to write in three dimensions at once. There is the private life, the social life, and what you...
Zézé Gamboa is a director, writer, cinematographer and producer from Luanda, Angola. He received his degree in sound engineering in Paris and began directing films. He also served as jurist to quite a few...
Mariama Ba revered education. Not surprising since she was born into an educated Muslim family in which her father was the first minister of health in Senegal. Her father insisted she focus her...
I came from a family where culture prevailed. My folks gave me a love of culture. So there is nothing surprising about Shakespeare being in my life. It would be surprising if he weren’t....
The trees fall from time to time, but the voice of the forest never loses its power. Life begins.- Jacques Stephen Alexis Brought up into one of Haiti’s literary families, Jacques Stephen Alexis’s father,...
Namsa Leuba is a Swiss and Guinean visual artist noted for her colorful marination of African supernatural folktales and unique interpretations of the human body. Her bold work in exhibiting traditional Guinean ceremonies such as exorcism; which had...
