The Screen Score: Accra After Dark
A nocturnal portrait of Accra's underground music scene that works better as a document than as a narrative.
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The Screen Score: Blood Meridian, Cape Town
A neo-noir that relocates McCarthy's brutal moral landscape to post-apartheid South Africa with sobering results.
The Screen Score: The Last Griot
A fable-like drama about a Malian oral historian trying to preserve his village's memory before it is swallowed by a dam.
The Screen Score: Kinshasa Cowboys
A raucous, energetic road movie that tears across the DRC with a punk spirit and genuine heart.
The Screen Score: Lagos Vice
A crime thriller that wears its influences on its sleeve but earns the comparison through sheer execution.
The Screen Score: Dust & Harmattan
A slow-burn drama about inheritance, land and silence that asks more of the viewer than most Nigerian films dare to.
The Screen Score: The Nairobi Protocol
A taut political thriller that uses its Kenyan setting to ask genuinely uncomfortable questions about sovereignty.
The Screen Score: Daughters of the Volta
A generational saga about three sisters navigating identity, tradition and ambition across two continents.
The frame travels
Lagos is writing for a screen that no longer sits still in one country. What happens to a film when its first…
Against the word “emerging”
Nollywood has been emerging for thirty years. At some point the word stops describing an industry and starts describing who is doing…