Nayola, by José Miguel Ribeiro: when an animation film opens up forbidden memories
This review was originally published in French in Politique Africaine (n°171/172, 2023-3). A shorter version was sent for publication to the African Review Journal. “Here, even the past is unpredictable,” under this provocative title...
Revelations, a workshop about documentary photography
This post reproduces the catalogue of the exhibition created in December 2021 by the participants in a workshop I organised in Luanda with my colleague Ingrid Bamberg, from the Centre for Visual Methodologies for...
“Film review” or why a work of fiction speaks to a geographer
The text below is the full-length version of a paper I originally wrote for the academic journal African Studies Review. It was actually the first time I was tasked with writing a “film review”....