This is my Africa + Black Business

This is my Africa
D: Zina Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria/Great Britain 2008, 48 min, English OV

‘Close your eyes and think of Africa. What do you see?’ Twenty people were asked this question, among them the artist Yinka Shonibare and the film-maker John Akomfrah. A crash course in African identity/identities: ‘I wanted to make a film that used private reminisces to challenge and re-balance the way Africa is talked about publicly - which is often negative and reductive.’

Black Business
D: Osvalde Lewat-Hallade, Cameroon/France 2007, 90 min, Engl. subtitles

A moving film about Cameroon in the 1990s when the police got out of control while fighting crime. Hundreds of people disappeared. Black Business combines shocking interviews with sensitive observations of people’s grief and asks how justice can prevail even in a brutalised society.