All of my colleagues at the various Foreign Policy Association Blogs are doing wonderful work and I hope that you are reading all of them regularly even if your main interests lie in African affairs. (And I want to thank you if your interests lie elsewhere but you came over here anyway.)
In recent weeks Sean Murphy at the FPA Global Film Review Blog has written a number of posts, with video links (as you’ve probably noticed, I am fairly bells and whistles free here at the Africa Blog — something I am going to try to rectify) pertaining to Africa. You should check out his work on The Battle of Algiers (1966), General Idi Amin Dada (1974), Ghosts of Rwanda (2004), The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), and Darfur Now* (2007). Please check out these fine, concise reviews and some of the video footage provided.
*I am wary of some of the shallow activism embodied in Darfur Now, which has its heart in the right place and time, but which, like so much about Darfur, tends to simplify it all into self-righteous can-do-ism, or what Texas in Africa calls “badvocacy.”
