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Review: Mane documentary — two women, two stories, both winners
Senegalese documentary Mane — about a rapper and a wrestler — provides a fresh, feminist take on the country’s hip-hop generation
Ma Rainey robbed of complexity on a ‘Negro’ path leading nowhere
The life of blues pioneer Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey and her song Black Bottom have been turned into a film. Bongani Madondo laments its anticlimax
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Phumlani Pikoli and the art of quitting school to make it
Writer, skater and filmmaker Phumlani Pikoli says his artistic intention was ‘to play’