Representations of the nude female body have historically played determining roles in the visual arts, particularly in the cinema. However, the essence of its erotic connotation in Sub-Saharan African cinema has often been overlooked. Françoise Pfaff’s fundamental…

Celebrating 25 years of Afro-Canadian filmmaking — 2020marks the 25th anniversary of Canada’s first ‘Black’ directed and casted feature length film; Rude (1995). This piece intends to celebrate the Jamaican-born Torontonian auteur Clément Virgo. He redefined not only how Canada was perceived on the big screen, but also what a Canadian film can look like. Through these…

The Cultural Enrichment of Dutch Wax Prints in Ghana — The vibrant eye-catching patterned cotton textiles universally known as ‘African prints’ adorn fashion runways and are continuously in vogue. It is in accordance with Ghanaian fashion and textile historian Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel that I claim that this designation must be complicated and necessitates a process of definitional reconstruction. Generalizing these…