Back to Black Africa Without a White Tour Guide

My first experience with black Africans in the cinema was when my mother took our babysitter Nana (aka "Nana from Ghana") to see Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. I wasn't in the theatre to witness this culture clash and not to suggest that Nana wasn't amused or didn't find some relief in a darkened theatre away from three pesky kids, but I sensed then that her takeaway was probably restricted. At age seven, I had already seen and was dumfounded by the humor in Monty Python's The Holy Grail (a...