Jarreth Merz is a Swiss-Nigerian actor living in Los Angeles. When his father passed away he was summoned to Nigeria. He is the first born so, according to the local customs, he is in charge of the burial ceremony and the family wealth. While not completely aware of the Nigerian traditions and their implications, he [...]

Jaguar (1967) is a movie by famous French moviemaker, anthropologist, explorer and storyteller Jean Rouch. He has spent more than sixty years making movies in Africa, thus creating a new movie style called ethnofiction. He is widely considered to be the father of Nigerien movie industry (Niger, not Nigeria) as he is the first director [...]

Ideally, any Westerner who has an interest in African culture and African beats should attend the African Footprint show. As this is not always possible, mainly for monetary reasons, a convenient alternative is now on the market. You can rent or buy the DVD featuring South Africa’s most famous cultural show. But firstly, what is [...]

Lesley Bilinda, the widow of a Tutsi pastor who disappeared during the Rwandan genocide without ever being seen, goes back to Kigali in search for the truth. There are hundreds of thousands of people whose killers are still walking free and her husband’s killer is one of them. She fluently speaks Kinya-rwanda, the most widely [...]

It is my pleasure to blog about the unique opportunity to experience Africanity in the city of Chicago. Chicago, a city that over the years has become the cradle of immigrant expression, also hosts one of the greatest events of the year for Africans and lovers of African culture, art and music: The African Festival of the Arts. It takes place every year at the beginning of September.

The Interpreter is a flashy, glooming, huge budget movie featuring a white African expat, from a fictional state called Matobo who works at the United Nations headquarters trying to change the world with the “belief that words and compassion are the better way…even if it’s slower than a gun.”

The story of the 1896 battle of Adwa is being told by Ethiopian-born director Haile Gerima. He explores European colonialism from an African perspective and the significance of the legendary battle that defeated the Italian expansionist movement and kept Ethiopia the one and only African country that was not occupied by a European colonial power [...]

Mortu Nega, like Nowhere in Africa, is a movie that capitalizes on war without directly showing it. It is, as the title suggests, a movie about Those Whom Death Refused – the internally displaced people, the veterans, the widows and the orphans – that survived the independence struggle and are trying to start all over [...]

60,000 US dollar digital library is launched in Egypt. Five managers of the government-owned Kenya Pipeline Company and privately-owned Triton Petroleum Company have been charged with fraud in Nairobi. South Africa is a source, transit and destination country for trafficked men, women and children Museveni, president of Uganda: China is not a threat to Africa [...]

Yaaba first brought international recognition to African director Idrissa Ouedraogo, winning, among others, the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989. Like other African movie, Yaaba is a movie characterized by pragmatism, simplicity and serenity.