The fifth edition of the Royal African Society’s annual film festival, Film Africa, is taking place on the 30 Oct – 8 Nov in London. Film Africa celebrates the best African cinema with a wide-ranging film programme. This year, over 60 films from 26 African countries will be screened. As one of the Friends of Film Africa, I have selected seven…
Archives for October 2015
The Guardian launches its books network
The Guardian has launched the Guardian Books Network featuring a selection of literary content from around the world. I’m delighted to share that my blog is a partner site. Look out for articles about writing from Africa, women, from historical, contemporary. philosophical as well as feminist angles and much more. Other partner sites include the…
What choices do women have? – A review of Woman At Point Zero
Reposting my latest article for The Guardian, which was titled “An Egyptian classic of feminist fiction”. It’s a review of the seminal book “Woman At Point Zero” by Nawal El Saadawi which is republished by Zed Books this month. This month, a 1975 novel by one of the most influential feminist thinkers in the Arab world is…
32 views on Afropolitanism
Last month, I took part in a panel discussion about Afroisms at Busseywood film festival. The panel, moderated by Tega Okiti, consisted of Emma Dabiri and Chardine Taylor-Smith, both opponents of Afropolitanism, and myself – a proponent of it. When I chose the name for my blog, I didn’t intuit becoming a proponent of Afropolitanism. The term…