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TechCabal, the flagship publication of Big Cabal Media (BCM), a Nigerian digital media company has appointed South African journalist and editor Adrian Ephraim as their editor-in-chief...

March 13th, 2021 in Featured. Closed NYC-based Ethiopian-American filmmaker Jessica Beshir's new movie “Faya Dayi” about life in Ethiopia’s eastern highlands "is less a documentary than a poem," the Economist observes in a review published this week. "The experience is as intoxicating as qat, but beneath the surface is a sombre evocation of the boredom, frustration and anger which afflict a generation of Ethiopian youth." (Photo courtesy Jessica Beshir) The Economist Qat and conflict: “Faya Dayi” evokes what it means to be young in Ethiopia CHILDREN BATHING in a ...

January 31st, 2021 in Featured. Closed Sundance: Jessica Beshir's striking, black and white hybrid docu-drama meditates on the legend of khat, a stimulant leaf, which was found by Sufi Imams in search of eternity. (Photo: Courtesy photo) IndieWire ‘Faya Dayi’ Review: A Hallucinatory Documentary About Ethiopia’s Most Lucrative Cash Crop Ethiopian legend has it that khat, a stimulant leaf, was found by Sufi Imams in search of eternity. Inspired by this myth, Jessica Beshir’s “Faya Dayi” is a spiritual journey into the highlands of the walled city of Harar, a place...