. Africana Film Festival: La Noire de... (Black Girl). Directed by Ousmane Sembene (1966; Senegal). A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves from Dakar to the […]

. Africana Film Fest: La Noire de... (Black Girl). Directed by Ousmane Sembene (1966; Senegal). A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves from Dakar to the […]

La Victoire en chantant/Black and White in Colour. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (1976; Côte d'Ivoire). French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots […]