When Europe's great powers raced to colonize a continent in the so-called "Scramble for Africa" just before the First World War, the tiny coastal Kingdom of Dahomey in the south of modern-day ...

For her first feature-length directorial effort, Atlantics, writer/director Mati Diop told a saga of love and ghosts. Specifically, she wove a yarn set in Dakar about Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) and ...

When it came time to decide what movie would kick off this year’s Through the Lens of Black Women series at the Museum of ...

In November 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey plundered by French colonialists in 1892 were returned to Benin, the west African nation that now encompasses Dahomey that gained its ...

Albuquerque’s Guild Cinema screened the new documentary “Dahomey.” Directed by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, the ...

The following are a few of the films of note that will be shown at Albuquerque’s Guild Cinema in February. From Feb. 4-6 at 3 ...