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Issue 2
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Editorial
The SAMOSA Festival, the cultural arm of AwaaZ, (www.samosafestival.com) has held regular film screenings since 2005 and while…
WHITE MALICE – The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
Author: Dr Susan WilliamsPubl: PublicAffairs A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by…
Harry Thuku
A SPECIAL FEATURE The following document was exhibited by Kibacia Gatu at a Conference hosted by the Department…
Film: Vuta N’kuvute: (Tug of War) 92min., 2022, Tanzania
Dir: Amil Shivji The opening of the film with the turning off of streetlights in old time Zanzibar…
Short Book Reviews
Women in Iberian Filmic Culture (Book)Publisher: Intellect BooksA Feminist Approach to the Cinemas of Portugal and SpainEditor Elena…
Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal
Author: Kate McNicholas Smith Lesbians on Television: new queer visibility and the lesbian normal is a densely packed…
The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking – Minor Immigrant Cinemas in Sweden 1950–1990
Authors: Lars Gustaf Andersson and John Sundholm Publ: Intellect, Bristol, UK/Chicago, USA, pp. 170, 2019. (ePDF ISBN: 978–1–78938–053–8)…
Bombay’s Islamicate Histories
Editors: Richard Allen, Ira BhaskarPubl: Intellect, Bristol, UK/Chicago, USA Bombay’s Islamicate Histories, its editors Richard Allen and Ira…
Black and White Bioscope – Making Movies In Africa 1899 to 1925
Author: Neil ParsonsPubl: Protea Book House. ISBN: 978-1-4853-0955-0. 252pp An appreciation of the meaning of prefixes in the…
The ‘soft power’ of Indian Cinema in Africa
Indian films have been exhibited in cinemas in many parts of the world since the early 20th century.…