'70s Week: Ousmane Sembène’s "Xala" and Souleymane Cissé’s "Baara" revel in caustic humor and the comeuppance of corrupt leaders to explore the class struggles of post-independent African nations.

Without Kentucky Fried Movie, the first film from Jim Abrahams and his partners, Jerry and David Zucker, we might never have gotten Animal House, Airplane!, or The Naked Gun films. We also might not ...

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Toward the end of her recently republished autobiography, "My Country, Africa," the political organizer Andrée Blouin reflects on the failures of the independence movements that galvanized so many ...