10 best African films streaming on Netflix
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Queen Sono
February 2020 saw history being made with Netflix’s first script-to-screen African Original Series, Queen Sono. Created by actor, filmmaker, writer and comedian Kagiso Lediga, who also co-directed alongside TV director Tebogo Malope, this six-part series showcases how well African filmmakers can rise to the challenge of producing glossy global entertainment, when there is a realistic budget.
Stunning South African model turned actress, Pearl Thusi (see image above), takes the lead as the kick-ass defiant, deadly, sometimes vulnerable Queen Sono.
A rollercoaster spy action thriller on South African terms, with a splash of family drama and intrigue thrown in for good measure, Queen Sono tells the story of an espionage heroine dedicated to protecting the African continent.
Transcending the cell
Coppedge spent 12-14 months of his incarceration in a Special Housing Unit (SHU). Each cell is about 100 square feet and each prisoner is confined in his cell for 23 hours a day. In 2019,
The Altamont Enterprise, an Albany, New York, news outlet, editorialized:
It takes a rare person, like Damion Coppedge, to come out of an SHU sanction with his humanity in tact [
sic]. It looks to us like the things that sustained Coppedge in prison a session where he was first introduced to Buddhism, mail that allowed him to play chess, a radio through which he heard poetry are what will make him a productive member of society now that he is out of prison.