Sexuality – especially queer sexuality – has always been one of the most heavily policed themes in African film.
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Despite harsh laws, a growing number of African countries are representing queer life in their cinema.
Discussions about the films on social media and online forums show that African queer lives are complex and don’t tell a single story.
Lesotho’s first-ever entry at the Oscars is a powerful story based on true-to-life events in which a village is to be forcibly evicted to make way for a new dam.
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Nakhane’s artistic oeuvre makes visible marginalised masculine identities.
The decision by South Africa’s Film and Publication Board to ban the film Inxeba has been widely criticised.
The banned film Inxeba certainly deserves more than to languish in the mire of South African scandal.
