Today the 2014 World Cup in Brazil ends. It was a fun ride, and I don’t think that anyone will disagree that this has been an unforgettable month of international sport, politics, and drama both on and off the field. The video below is my attempt at showing another side of Rio de Janeiro and a few […]
Cameroon's police apparently interrogated Samuel Eto'o and took away his passport over the team's World Cup display.
Most films about Liberia are feature films or gritty documentaries focus almost perversely on the horrors of the civil war. Not "Out of my hand."
The life and times of the great South African hip hop producer, Nyambz,
Youtube “ghetto pranks" are meant to expose poor black people as "naturally" and irrationally angry.
The last third or so of Director Phil Harrison’s film about Irish multinationals in South Africa suffers from needless flattening.
As photography in Ghana continues to gain recognition, Ofoe Amegavie is definitely one to watch. At 26 years old, Ofoe’s work has quickly gained an international audience with folks across the continent, Europe and North America, checking for his latest additions. The photographer is still finding his voice and evolving into his craft, but this […]
In February of 2013, I made a hurried decision to head to Lagos, in an attempt to shoot a pilot season for My Africa Is, an ongoing web documentary series, that aims to dispute the one dimensional portrayal of the African continent. We had been seeking funding for quite some time, and it just wasn’t […]
District Six was the start of a really vibrant, none racial South African and that’s why it had to die.
The struggle to Africanize folktales that have been thought of as “owned” by rigid European narratives and European aesthetic expectations.
In 2010, documentary filmmaker Sara Chitambo packed up five years’ worth of life in Cape Town and relocated to the eGoli, ePitori to be precise. Among her long list of priorities was to immerse herself the Pretoria hip-hop scene which, at its peak, had various artists from the city featuring regularly in the South African […]
The collective BE.BOP works to introduce a decolonial way of thinking about the visual arts in Europe and Africa.