Okay, so it’s not exactly “unlikely.” Africa is pretty much a bastion of wacky everything. And I’m here to tell you, movie posters aren’t much different. And it should probably ...

as well as West African films. To attract viewers, the video clubs needed to advertise their offerings. But they did not have the original movie posters, or the means to print alternatives – the ...

In an era where an increasing number of African painters train overseas and paint largely for western audiences, Ghana’s golden age of movie posters points to an era when it was possible to ...

Movie posters are plastered on dorm rooms ... at the green books that this movie is based on — the principle that African Americans had to read books in certain parts of the country to find ...

“This was a direct Hong Kong-to-Africa transmission, without any kind of Western filtering,” Wolfe writes in a curatorial essay. “I consider these Golden Age movie posters to be the visual ...

that's what creates this hilarious love for our movie posters." Accept Manage my choices ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and ...

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