Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classmates become their port of safety, joy and...

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal...

Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in...

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is...

For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. This...

There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...

October 2014. Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is the scene of an unarmed uprising that ousts the dictator in power since 1987 and later...