“Don’t chase me away”: The crisis of social belonging in tumultuous times A desperate mother makes a painful sacrifice: she sends her son away to an uncertain future in order to spare him from an almost certain death.  The last thing she tells him is “Go, live and become” and these words will resonate heavily [...]

Somewhere in West Africa, Karaba is a mean sorceress who has killed almost an entire generation of warriors. She is so loathed and feared that she lives away from the village, on top of a hill, where her only friends are dreadful walking trees and little robot-like spies that keep her informed at all times. [...]

There are no easy solutions in life, and Disgrace, the movie adaptation of Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize winning novel of the same name, tends to express that reality more dramatically than any movie I have watched in recent years. Before going into details about the movie, I would to stress the fact that [...]

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.”

There is hardly any doubt in viewers’ minds that The Constant Gardener is a good movie. And a very depressing one, for that matter. If it were simply a movie about Africa, where unfortunate events happen often without a logic or context that we, as Westerners are familiar with, it would have been just another epic tragedy translated in a visual account of Africa.

This is a review I wrote two years ago on Blood Diamond. I decided to publish it here so that the movie is included in the Discover African movies section. This is a longer review because it is analyzed from an academic perspective. I rank the movie 9/10. “Blood Diamond” doesn’t bring anything new into [...]

Nowhere in Africa might just be the most touching and most caring Western movie on an Africa-related theme I’ve seen in my life If you were to leave the comfortable and safe environment of your upper class house, and move to a completely new place where the customs, morals, habits and the language you speak [...]