While there are many late 20th-century movie classics we all know and love, the crunchy video and audio quality is enough to turn off a generation that is used to Marvel-level productions. However, ...

Toward the end of her recently republished autobiography, "My Country, Africa," the political organizer Andrée Blouin reflects on the failures of the independence movements that galvanized so many ...

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'70s Week: Ousmane Sembène’s "Xala" and Souleymane Cissé’s "Baara" revel in caustic humor and the comeuppance of corrupt leaders to explore the class struggles of post-independent African nations.