Ethiopian-born Salem Mekuria’s Ye Wonz Maibel coordinates elements of personal and national political history and ponders Ethiopia’s fate, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, in order to mourn the dead and ease the birth of a future struggling with unfamiliar democratic forms.      The binding image is a “river storm” barely contained by the river’s banks. […]

The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis We were taught one rule: Silence.      The death of an ex-bey who may have […]

The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis On the Mexico-U.S. border, Tijuana is the principal setting for The Garden of Eden. […]

The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis From Ghana, Burkina Faso, Germany, United Kingdom, and the United States, Ethiopian-born Haile Gerima’s […]

The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis From Cameroon, Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s dazzling Quartier Mozart is set betwixt farce and fable. In […]