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SITABAOMBA, CHEZ LES ZEBUS FRANCOPHONES

Nantenaina LOVA, Madagascar, 2023 SYNOPSIS Ly is one of the last farmer orators in Madagascar’s capital. His life was turned upside down in 2016 when long-armed speculators began coveting the land he farms. Like an egg arguing with a pebble, Ly and his farmer...
RESSACS, A TUAREG STORY

RESSACS, A TUAREG STORY

Intagrist el Ansari, Algeria, 2024 SYNOPSIS:RESSACS, A Tuareg Story is a film that explores the memory and identity of the Tuareg people through a filmmaker’s letter to his son. It recounts the history of the Kel Ansar, a tribe from Timbuktu, highlighting their...
DANIEL OUEZZIN COULIBALY, AFRICA’S PATHS.

DANIEL OUEZZIN COULIBALY, AFRICA’S PATHS.

DANIEL OUEZZIN COULIBALY, AFRICA’S PATHS. Bernard YAMEOGO, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS:Born in 1909 in Pouy, Burkina Faso, Ouézzin Daniel Coulibaly emerged as a charismatic and iconic figure in the struggle for the independence of French West Africa (AOF). Alongside...
Our Land, Our Freedom

Our Land, Our Freedom

Meena Nanji, Zippy Kimundu, Kenya, Portugal, Allemagne, 2023 SYNOPSIS Our Land, Our Freedom tells the story of two extraordinary Kenyan women – a mother and daughter, Mukami and Wanjugu Kimathi. Mukami was a freedom fighter in Kenya’s 1950s independence...
Yambo Ouologuem : La Blessure

Yambo Ouologuem : La Blessure

Kalidou Sy, Sénégal, 2024 SYNOPSISIn 1968, when Le Devoir de Violence was published, Yambo Ouologuem was still an unknown young Malian writer. Addressing themes of slavery and crimes between Africans before French colonization, his book quickly brought him out of...