Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's lawyers have complained to the makers of a new movie about her life, saying she was never consulted about the film starring Jennifer Hudson, local media said Tuesday.

Nigeria's 1986 Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka will lead a protest march and rally Tuesday in Abuja against President Umaru Yar'Adua's long absence from office, organisers said on Monday.

Early in “Sherlock Holmes” — and also again, later on — the famous sleuth demonstrates his ratiocinative powers in a way undreamed of by his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Marguerite Abouet's hugely popular series of books, centred on the life of a young woman in a cheerful Ivory Coast suburb, show an Africa far from stereotypes of war and disease.

For more than 100 years, movies have been made in the same basic way: you put actors in front of a camera and photograph them.

If you read my blog at all, you know how much I write about the situation in Zimbabwe. Over the summer, a friend from one of the local bookstores passed me a galley of the The Last Resort, a memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers.