Scribbles and Ramblings

Wonders in the Dark recently concluded a Best Films from Africa and Middle East poll. The inclusion of Iran, Israel and Turkey in this poll...

The challenge in making any top films list from a country or region is accessibility to quality works from that specific country/region. The...

 Soleil Ô (1967, Mauritania/France, Med Hondo) I had read about Med Hondo in a few posts over the years. Yet, I hadn’t seen any of his films...

The 15 films from the 5 African Nations taking part in the 2014 Movie World Cup have been selected. Given the difficulty in finding Africa...

The conclusion of the 2012 African Cup of Nations film spotlight. In the end, I was only able to view films from 10 of the 16 African natio...

In the past, I had to postpone an African Cup of Nations (CAN) Film spotlight due to the difficulty in tracking down an adequate number of ...

Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson The...

Back in February, inspired by an article in Sight and Sound , I sought out films from Africa. But the search proved challenging as most of t...