Black Star Rising
Lord Paul Boateng spoke on challenges and opportunities for democracy in North and sub-Saharan Africa. Paul Boateng is a British Labour Party politician, who was the MP for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK’s first black Cabinet Minister inMay 2002, when he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Following his departure from the...
An African Election
Edge of seat tension as parties slog it out in run up to Ghana’s 2008 general election. Will dirty tricks win the day or will the process be held to be free and fair? AN AFRICAN ELECTION is filled with big personalities, colourful speech-making and high-stakes intrigue. Following the steps that lead to the election, the re-vote...
Hassan Eraji
Blind musician Hassan Erraji plays oud, violin, and percussion. Born in the village of Tazart, south of Marrakech, Hassan was introduced at an early age to the traditional music of the Atlas Mountains, practised and taught by ear and passed on from generation to generation. Now living in Leeds, Erraji has worked with the groups Arabesque...
Sing Your Song
Wonderfully archived, and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary, SING YOUR SONG, surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer, inspired by Paul Robeson, and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover...
Robert Mugabe… what happened?
Robert Mugabe… what happened?, charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country, and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist, then knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of...
