Abiba Coulibaly on Mati Diop’s Dahomey and its vision of the museum as a space of colonial consumption & anti-colonial assertion.
Mambar Pierrette: All of Cameroon’s Cares on Her Shoulders
Abiba Coulibaly writes about Rosine Mbakam’s first narrative feature film, MAMBAR PIERRETTE.
Gold, Blue and Lilac: The Films of Zineb Sedira
Shasha Movies, an independent streaming service for South-West Asian and North African cinema, presents the first complete retrospective of French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira, whose filmography spans three decades and the breadth of the Mediterranean.
Neocolonial Grip: Ousmane Sembène’s ‘Tauw’ (1970) + Djibril Diop Mambéty’s ‘Le Franc’ (1994)
Currency takes even more of a centre stage in some of their lesser-known shorts steeped in acute political commentary: Le Franc (1994) and Tauw (1970) respectively, which delve deeper into many of the context-specific issues of cash—and lack thereof—in Francophone Africa, exposing the incomplete nature of the decolonial project.