Author Africultures

Analyse

Mwanadamu ziwungo : le corps fait l’homme… Ainsi pourrait s’exprimer la relation au corps dans une société comorienne où, écartelée entre une modernité soumise au modèle dominant de la culture occidentale…

Analyse

L’évolution historique de l’image du Noir puise bien dans le racisme et dans ce qu’on avait besoin qu’il soit : retour sur un livre important de notre collaboratrice Sylvie Chalaye, suivi…

Editorial

 » Lumumba Comme rumba, conga ! Lumumba Comme rumba, Congo !  » Tchikaya U Tam’si Le Ventre, Présence africaine, 1978, p. 143.Il n’y a pas que les cyclistes du Tour de France qui se dopent :…

Critique

Evoking the trauma of immigration on a comic register is a courageous, but immediately endearing challenge. It is also a difficult one to rise to, especially when the film deals…

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Soudani has an eye for the visual. Cameraman and director of photography before turning to directing, he knows how to choose a frame that immediately does justice to its subject…

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Traumatized after seeing her father die through insufficient health care, Saïkati trains as a nurse. She dreams of working with the bush doctors who fly to treat emergencies. Back in…

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Five young twenty-year-olds form a highly cohesive group until one of them accidentally dies in an argument. The trouble with this film is that it combines two registers which compete…

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The historic fiction Sucre amer is a dense and fascinating film whose aim leaps right out of the screen: i.e. to restitute West Indian memory in the light of its…

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Zakia is beautiful, active, passionate. She presents a women’s television programme. She meets up with her lost friends, Leila, Keltoum and Ghita. The four women promise to keep in touch,…

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Awa and Adama (Adam and Eve) are very close twins. In order to help her scholastically less able brother, Awa (Nacky Sy Savané) sells her soul to the soothsayer Mousso…

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When she returns to South Africa after having lived in exile in the States, Nolutando, who has qualified as a doctor, wants to offer her father, whom she thinks has…

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