Discusses how Africa is changing as it enters the twenty-first century, describing changes in population, living conditions, disease prevention, education, the economy, the environment, and political and personal freedom.

Over the past decade, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam has distinguished herself for her quietly observational documentary portraits of African women. With Mambar Pierrette, her feature narrative debut, Mbakam turns her documentarian's eye to the eponymous Pierrette, a gifted & beloved neighborhood seamstress who works to support her young children and mother. As a rainstorm threatens to flood her workshop, one of many misfortunes, Pierrette will...

"A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century"--