Making films against amnesia
The director of the Oscar-nominated film ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently.
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Zahra Moloo
Zahra Moloo is a Kenyan-Canadian researcher, documentary filmmaker and PhD candidate in Human Geography at the University of Toronto.
Bill Gates and his technofix dream for the planet
Philanthrocapitalists are driving massively profitable schemes dressed up as eco-friendly, pro-poor solutions to climate disaster.
An ambivalent sense of belonging
Janet McIntosh’s fascinating book, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, forces an interrogation of the past.
The crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Judi Rever’s account of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath challenges the official narrative.
The hubris of western science
The tendency of science and research in the Western world to treat issues in isolation, as if one part has no relationship to larger webs of complex interconnection.
The ‘Brazil of Africa’
That’s not a compliment. It is about how development institutions are financing land grabs in the Democratic Republic of Congo.