Overview of articles
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La nuit des rois
The power of storytelling underpins this stifling, inventive film from Côte d’Ivoire about life inside a gigantic prison.Published on: -
Adanggaman
In 17th-century West Africa, a village on the Slave Coast is attacked and plundered. Ossei goes looking for his imprisoned villagers. ConfrontationalPublished on: -
To Repel Ghosts
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is shown around by an Ivorian painter. Exhausted by depression Basquiat seeks salvation in local rituals.Published on: -
Abusuam
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Sur la dune de la solitude
Inspired by Mama Watta, a legendary water goddess who seduces men into captivity: the symbolic encounter of a man and a woman one night on…Published on: -
La femme au couteau
African traditions are called into question through the difficulties of a young intellectual traumatised by too strict an upbringing in Africa.Published on: