As part of our storytelling project, this tripartite video animation series captures the various ways in which the pandemic has had disproportionate economic impact on the urban poor (economically vulnerable households), with serious implications on family relationships.
Film
Arts, Culture and Sport Is’xaxa: How to do it for the culture — while trying to stay alive
How a collaborative music project spanning three countries over two continents was made in the depths of a global pandemic.
Arts, Culture and Sport The Kenyan film director taking on the world – with positive stories of black life
It wasn’t just the film Rafiki – a joyful lesbian love story – but also the experience of going to watch it after it was unbanned that created a new kind of freedom.
Lifestyle Healthcare’s ‘toxic’ working conditions exposed in student’s documentary
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the South African healthcare system and highlighted the need to protect the country’s frontline workers and its limited healthcare resources. It has also brought renewed attention to the working conditions experienced by frontline healthcare workers.
Arts, Culture and Sport Towards Wakanda – Chadwick Boseman’s passing and the power and limits of Afrofuturism
Both Black Panther and Beyoncé’s Black is King represent a utopian vision of empowerment and connection to Africa.
Arts, Culture and Sport ‘Big Brother Naija’: Nigeria’s unlikely public relations campaign?
Big Brother Naija continues to dominate cultural conversations among African youth. Is this Nigeria’s strongest PR move?
Arts, Culture and Sport HBO’s sci-fi horror series Lovecraft Country relives the Jim Crow era
Lovecraft Country, a must watch landmark show is a story which grapples with America’s troubled past and present, a binary opposite defined relationship of us versus them is pitted throughout the narrative, be it law enforcement vis-à-vis policing and white American supremacy in the fray. It can be read as an allegory for the Black American horror reality.
Arts, Culture and Sport How grassroots video is building a film industry in Zimbabwe
Low-budget, grassroots video-film efforts are beginning to blossom and will shape the film industry in the long run.
Arts, Culture and Sport Netflix’s Cook Off – An authentically Zimbabwean no-budget romcom which can reinvigorate the film industry
A pulsating, multi-layered, engaging narrative, endowed with that infectious Zimbabwean sensibility, with a mix of mbira music playing in the background; interspersed with the familiar high-rise Harare buildings iconography, the dusty streets of Budiriro high density suburb, Cook Off feels authentic to the Zimbabwean experience.