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I promised to post my 2005 article on the Souleymane Cisse film retrospective, and how British Consulate officials rained on the Malian dir...

Nollywood star power with more than a little Ghollywood help last night in Nairobi at the Africa Movie Academy Awards' Nominations event...

3 outstanding scripts from Tyger Williams' lab were selected for AFRIFF's Script-to-Screen project. Pictured here with Williams (in...

Hello, patient blog readers, who have watched uncomplainingly while Wordsbody took a long snooze. The failure to update this blog is never i...

Seen Abouna ? Simply one of the most touching films you'll ever see. Following the journey of 2 brothers who run off in search of a fath...

Even before news broke of the untimely death of the actor Heath Ledger , I'd been intending to recycle this minor blog classic of mine ...

Nigeria has been at the polls and we look anxiously on. I've had so many worrying sms messages from Lagos and Ibadan in the last week, a...

13th February, and I attended a screening of Abderrahmane Sissako 's Bamako at the very arty Renoir Cinema in Russell Sq. The director...

Tonight @ the Curzon Mayfair in London, the actor Danny Glover attends the Gala screening of Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako. The event ...