“There’s this song by Dolly Parton, called my Tennessee Mountain Home,” says the man in the dusty African village, “and when you listen to that song it’s like Dolly Parton was telling the story of my life.”

“The woman I’m about to interview is from The Philippines, which is considered a safe country,” explains the Home Office interviewer, “so see what you think - and don’t be too soft. We have a bit of a joke in the office — if you’re seen as too soft you’ll find the office teddy bear on your desk.”

Jihad is a mid-20s Brit of South Asian origin. He wants to be a journalist. But his career never takes off (“I got nothing to show for it”) until he enters a competition.

During the 1991 Gulf War Maysoon Pachachi  was in London and recalls that “watching the news, I never saw one ordinary Iraqi person on screen. They were absent.”

Goodbye Julia Is perfect proof that the personal is political.

A teacher asks his young class what what they should model today. A tank, suggests one. A rifle, says another. “No,” responds the teacher, “I don’t like objects of war.”

You want an action movie? Forget Superman or Wonder Woman. Watch Mambar Pierrette.

It could have been bad taste to make a film about making a film at the time of the cataclysmic 2020 chemical explosion in Beirut that killed 218, injured 7,000, caused $15 billion property damage, and made about 300,000 people homeless.

It starts with a production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly more than a century ago: the handsome visiting white US military officer and the pliant, Asian doll-woman.

The Old Oak is a film about what happens when Syrian refugees move into a run-down, dead-on-its-feet north-east English town.

So, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered because his assassin was brought up as a girl to appease the Gods and was symbolically killing the father who had metaphorically castrated him?

Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea is uncategorisable but funny and entertaining.

Bobi Wine: Ghetto President pitches you face-to-face with the rough and tumble of Uganda’s political and election battles as pop star-turned-MP Robert Kyagulanyi  takes on the country’s 36-year dictatorship.

Brassic FM is a two-barrel blast at the authorities trying to police aspects of working-class British cultural life.

Lagos Peckham Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes is full of energy, humour and invention - just like the thousands of Nigerians in the south London district of Peckham, part of 12,000 Nigerians in the borough of Southwark.

Extraordinarily, while Rabiah Hussain was writing her new play, a brain tumour attacked her ability to communicate. Extraordinary, because Word-Play is about language.

Kwame Kwei-Armah has compared living with his Grenada-born parents in Britain to existing with two types of theatre: he would be serving rum to his father and his pals, while his mother was hosting church meetings in the living-room. His new play is also like two types of theatre.

A Playlist for the Revolution at the Bush Theatre is a blast.

From the moment you enter A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography, you know you’re in for something a little different.