Now Showing: The Gods Must Be Crazy

 
Last week, the French Cultural Center here in Bamako put a big banner out front advertising an African film festival on July 4 and 5. I was imagining that they might show films by Malian, Senegalese, or Ivorian directors. When I picked up the brochure for more details, most of the films seemed to be by [...]

Fête de la Musique

Saturday night brought me to the Fête de la Musique–an annual event held in Bamako, this year at the public monument fondly known as the Bougie, because it looks like a candle. Except only sort of. This year, it was sponsored by Castel beer, and we, being, you know, white, somehow got classified as special [...]