Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat film review — dizzying history of colonialism, murder and jazz in the Congo
The musical cast of documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is stellar: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Nina Simone just some of the jazz titans whose work fills the film. And the coup? Well, that is ...
Doc Talk Podcast: Oscar-Contending Director Johan Grimonprez Explains How He Pulled Off Incredible Filmmaking Feat In ‘Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat'
In February 1961, a remarkable outburst took place at the United Nations in New York – jazz artists Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, ...
Africa’s best national parks – and how to experience them
With over 300 national parks across the 52 countries, there is much to consider when planning a wildlife holiday in Africa ...
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GIJN Webinar: How Africa Connects to Your Story: Investigating Multinational Misconduct, Natural Resource Exploitation, and Impunity Beyond Borders
GIJN is excited to bring you this webinar in which African journalists who have done impactful collaborative investigations ...
Netflix's new documentary from an Oscar-winning director is heartwarming... but not for the reasons you'd expect
When I started watching Netflix's new documentary called The Lost Children, I thought I could tell what it'd be like from the ...
At UN climate talks, nations big and small get chance to bear witness to climate change
The United Nations' annual climate conference continues Wednesday with brief speeches by nations big and small ...
Transcript: Culture chat — ‘Anora’, the unlikely film leading the Oscar race
Lilah Raptopoulos Anora has received glowing reviews from critics. It received the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival and is being tipped as a frontrunner for the Oscars. And because it’s not the ...
Judith Jamison: Remembering the Trailblazing Dance Legend
After a 15-year run as Alvin Ailey's star dancer and muse, Jamison returned to lead the dance company as artistic director.
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Foreign Sec Speech: Indigenous Peoples, Forest Protection
At COP29, David Lammy spoke at an event on scaling support for the role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ...
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat: A fleet-footed chronicle that never lets up
The film never lets up. Pieced together from carefully colour-graded archive footage and the contemporaneous testimonies of Khrushchev, Andrée Blouin, In Koli Jean Bofane and Conor Cruise O’Brien ...
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Top Africa orchestra began with brake cables for strings
When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra -- one of the most famous in Africa -- in 1994, they had so ...
WHO to convene emergency meeting on mpox on Nov. 22
The World Health Organization will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine whether mpox remains a ...