This thesis seeks to write a comprehensive history of documentary film in Africa, from the beginning of the cinema until the eve of independence in the late 1950s. It looks at documentary practice and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2021, 26 treasures that French colonial troops had pillaged from the African kingdom of Dahomey in 1892 made the long journey ...

“The African experience is global,” said Niyi Coker, E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor at UMSL. “This festival allows you to understand the experiences that Africans are having in other countries ...

A documentary advocating reparative justice for Africa’s colonial past has premiered in Bamako, Mali, drawing political leaders, academics, and cultural figures to its unveiling. The film, titled ...

NYFF: "Making films is fighting against all the stereotypes that colonialism has created," Diop told IndieWire of her documentary about the repatriation of Beninese artifacts. Mati Diop cuts a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a ...

During the 19th and 20th centuries, Europe's major powers — Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Great Britain — engaged in a fierce struggle for supremacy through African colonization. This ...