Coping
Coping, directed by Ghanaian film maker Edem Dotse, is a short film that looks at issues of mental health from the perspective of the mentally challenged. In this award-winning film, […]
Books, Films, and the Arts
Reviews and discussions of new books, films, and other forms of artistic expression that offer a creative perspective on African politics and society.
IAS Film Screening: Ota Benga
Last week, the Institute of African Studies continued their semester’s IAS Film Series with Ota Benga – a film reflecting on the life of Ota Benga.
Ota Benga, a pygmy from the Congo—then […]
Fanon: Freedom for the Wretched or Servitude to Marxist Orthodoxy?
By Cilas Kemedjio
Frantz Fanon attended the All-Africa Conference convened by Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah in 1958. He met with anticolonial leaders, including Congolese Patrice Lumumba and Cameroonian Felix Moumié. During […]
Review of Jeffrey Gettleman’s Love, Africa: A memoir of Romance, War and Survival (Harper, 2017)
By: Uduak Amimo*
I was asked by the CIHA Blog to write a review of Jeffrey Gettleman’s memoir, Love, Africa, after ranting on Twitter about foreign correspondents who spend years in […]
VICTORY IN THE SHADOWS
By Bangirana Albert Billy, University of KwaZulu-Natal
‘Victory in the Shadows’ by Teju Cole is a well-crafted analytical piece positioning contestations of power within photography, especially on how photography continues […]
The Many Faces of Lament: A Response to Emmanuel Katongole’s “Born from Lament”
Emmanuel Katongole, associate professor of theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda, recently published his […]
AfroBubblegum: African Sci-fi offers alternatives to “Hopeless Africa” narrative
By Angela Okune
At CIHA Blog, we recently highlighted how African cinema is serving as a key avenue through which important critiques of humanitarianism are being made. Continuing the conversation, […]
Pan-African Cinema: Critiques of Western Humanitarianism
By Thomas Barker, University of California – Irvine Intern
As African cinema gains increasing success internationally with films such as Sembene, there is a potential for films to […]