The award-winning **THE WOMAN KING** airs on Studio Universal (DStv 112) this New Year’s Eve at 8 PM (CAT), starring Viola ...

These days, moviegoers rush to watch films about battling superheroes, smooching tennis players, and existential fashion dolls. For much of movie history, however, film fans loved to watch epics.

It was mindful of the rights of women ... as a warrior; in off hours she enjoyed male concubines. Surely a ripe source for creative imagination. In what we now call Benin once stood the Dahomey ...

Nanisca (Viola Davis), her big-ass machete and her army of all-female warriors protect the African kingdom of Dahomey in Gina Prince ... Looking at Some of the Women, You Patriarchal F—s’ ...

The story of the all-female unit of African warriors who sought to protect the Kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th Century. Why it is one of the best movies on Hulu: Based on true events, The Woman ...

Mati Diop likes summoning spirits. In 2019’s Cannes-premiering Atlantics, the ghosts of young Senegalese men lost in the ...

Women’s emotions are celebrated when it comes to the spiritual battlefield – but these expressions aren’t welcomed in leadership.

Far from the frontlines of Sudan's devastating war, a new generation of amateur women filmmakers is gathering in the formerly sleepy city of Port Sudan to explore the untold stories of their troubled ...

Narrative change organisation Africa No Filter and Cairo International Film Festival have awarded a new prize, the Africa Narrative Change Film Award, to Dahomey, a documentary that follows 26 ...