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.
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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.
Sport, Arts and Culture 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.
Sport, Arts and Culture ‘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?
Sport, Arts and Culture 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.
Sport, Arts and Culture 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.
Sport, Arts and Culture 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.
Sport, Arts and Culture Netflix Naija: creative freedom in Nigeria’s emerging digital space?
For Nollywood to fully compete at the global level, it should adopt a smart, proactive approach.
Sport, Arts and Culture Michelle Obama’s Netflix documentary ‘Becoming’ — a towering portrait of a phenomenal woman
Becoming, review: Michelle Obama’s inspirational and poignant Netflix documentary — Becoming shows us at close quarters the minutiae traits of an exceptional woman. The eclectic film tells us her story and underlines Michelle’s charisma, and ability to connect with diverse people, regardless of race, class, gender or differing backstories.