
Set in Togo, West Africa, Ashakara is a modern African tale. An African doctor finds Read More »
Tag Archives: Burkina Faso
Eye of the Storm / L’oeil du cyclone (2015) Sekou Traoré, Maimouna N’Diaye, Fargass Assandé, Abidine Dioari

In a nameless, African country riven with civil war, a young female lawyer is the court-appointed counsel for a rebel leader. Read More »
Sankofa (1993) Haile Gerima, Kofi Ghanaba, Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Alexandra Duah

A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation Read More »
Dreams of Dust AKA Rêves de poussière (2006) Laurent Salgues, Makena Diop, Adama Ouédraogo, Rasmané Ouédraogo

A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. Read More »
Zan Boko (1988) Gaston Kaboré, Mathias Bayili, Colette Kaboré, Joseph Nikiema

In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member Read More »
Guimba the Tyrant (1995) Guimba, un tyran une époque

Documents the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba Read More »