The earth doesn’t lie
COLONIALISM: Charting the French civil rights movement and the interwoven anti-colonial liberation struggles on the African continent through the life of activist and photographer, Bouba Touré.
Senegal
Democracy in French-speaking Africa
AFRICA: France has strangely managed to preserve hegemony over its former colonies, including the dissemination of knowledge. This book is a much-needed exception, providing the background for understanding the recent coup in Mali.
Crises are good business
AFRICA: A considerable number of consultants and commissioned researchers have profited from the crises in the African belt. Sahel has emerged as a crucial area for not only Norway but also for the EU and the USA.
Re-foresting the desert humans made
CLIMATE CHANGE: Malian musician Inna Modja takes an epic journey down Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall project where 8,000km wall of trees is to stretch across the entire continent.
More than sun and heat
MIGRANTS: An uneven book about people who move with a desire for a better life but encounter problems when they move «home» again.
MY NEIGHBOUR, MY BROTHER: Two shorts from Berlinale 2019
Experimental documentaries take centre stage at the 2019 Berlinale.
It is «you whites» who created «us blacks»
AFRICA: It is false to strive for justice «at home» while constantly exploiting «over there», writes one of the contributors in a new anthology.
Walls of fear
The Border Fence draws out the anxieties and fears of a community in the grip of a shifting political landscape, provoking unavoidable parallels with an increasingly divisive Europe.
The power of mobilisation
AFRICA: Political resistance in Africa is led by the middle-class, while the poor gather in the streets.
Two films about modern industrialized fishery and agriculture
Curiously, two feature docs have been released in Austria at the same time dealing with the same theme: modern industrialized fishery and agriculture – and both films were supported by the Austrian Film Institute and the Vienna Film Fund.