Ninah’s Dowery
Whew! Watching Ninah’s Dowery (2012), a movie from a small Camaroon film crew, directed by the sure-handed Victor Viyuoh I was carried into the …
Category Archives: Africa
Making the Crossing: Migrants in the Movies
Mediterranea at the Mill Valley Film Festival couldn’t come at a better time. Though several years in the making, and …
The Dawn of Humanity: Science at Work
The find of an extraordinary number of early hominid bones and subsequent naming of a new species — —homo naledi …
The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco
Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in …
Mali: Pain and Poetry
Though war and armed assaults in Mali have been much in the news lately good things continue to happen. Here, …
Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti
A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters …
Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely …
The Veil – Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt/U.K.
Ahadaf Soueif, is a Cairo born, Egypt and U.K educated, writer, predominantly of fiction. She got major attention with her …
“I Think of You” — Stories from Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt and England
Giving birth in a Muslim hospital where a sign in English reads, ‘Under no circumstance you must be alone with …
The Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli: A Novel from Iraq
The ascension of Saddam Hussein to the peak of Iraqi power began in 1958 when a coup led by Brigadier …
Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih, Sudan
I’ve been trying to keep my focus on fiction and film from the North African/Middle Eastern countries where the 2011 …
Music: Mali
Last week at the Human Rights Watch dinner in Santa Barbara a band of African musicians brought together by the …