Now It Can Be Told. The roots of disaster went back to last November, when the drive against General (now Marshal) Erwin Rommel’s sand-bitten Afrika Korps and his allied Italians had barely started.

Trailblazer of African cinema was the winner of the jury’s prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for his film, Yeelen. A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people ...