The philanthropic foundation set up by US billionaire Bill Gates quietly co-finances experiments with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in several African countries. In the age of philanthropic capitalism, billionaires "save the world" and make money in the process. But who is helped the most, ordinary Africans or the food industry?

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is d...
"A Walk to Beautiful" tells the story of five women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirt...

There are thousands of people working as scrap workers in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana, and Abdallah i...

Local, organic, and sustainable are words we associate with food production today, but 40 years ago,...

Poet, agricultural engineer and revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verde...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

Railroad of Hope consists of interviews and footage collected over three days by Ning Ying of migran...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet...

In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their...

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage...

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leo...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of...