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  Love Brewed in the African Pot 1980

  ★★★ Added 1

  African love contends with the weight of class, colonial offcuts, warped gender politics and even ethereal forces in Kwaw Ansah’s 1980 debut feature, ‘Love Brewed…. in the African Pot’. When this brew of African love is fully realized, the strong taste of despair lingers as our director guides us towards the source of his true affection.

  ‘Love Brewed….’ bends to familiar archetypes in the first act. Set presumably in ‘80s Accra, the initially sweet and coy Aba Appiah (Anima Misa),…

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  The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020

  ★★★ Added

  Chants of “the whole world is watching” linger after sitting for Aaron Sorkin’s timely ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’. Having absorbed news on protest movements all week; from Nigeria to Belarus to Hong Kong, this chant rings even truer and may score my future engagements with fiery citizen power. However, the conviction of protestors worldwide is something Sorokin lacks in his sophomore directing effort.

  Unlike an earlier Netflix stand out, 'Da Five Bloods', which meshed seamlessly with the Black…

Popular reviews

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  The Burial of Kojo 2018

  ★★★½ Added

  It would not an exercise in hyperbole to say ‘The Burial of Kojo’ was my most anticipated film of 2018. It goes without saying that the Ghanaianess of this production anchored this sentiment. But it’s also to do with being roped in behind the curtain as Writer-Director Samuel ‘Blitz’ Bazawule (Blitz the Ambassador) rallied film fans globally behind his vision with a Kickstarter campaign.

  That Bazawule is the brain behind the African Film Society comes with its own brand of…

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  Atlantics 2019

  ★★★★ Added

  It’s unfair the amount of baggage I took to 'Atlantics', French-Senegalese director Mati Diop debut feature. This film has already appeared in some best of 2019 lists after winning the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where Diop, became the first black woman director to be in contention for the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or. So naturally, expectations were quite high. And oh, she happens to the niece of one of Africa’s filmmaking greats Djibril…