Africa’s Sequel: “When it opened five months ago, Hotel Rwanda garnered admiring reviews, especially for the performances of Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo. It went on to receive three Academy Award nominations and a raft of prizes. And it has been credited with increasing awareness of the 1994 genocide that killed some 800,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsi.

Clearly, it had a big effect on many who saw it. What’s less clear is the effect it had on the film industry. Will its impressive critical success inspire – or shame – American filmmakers to attempt more realistic portrayals of Africa than they have in the past? Or will its modest box-office success reinforce the financial logic behind the dark continent clichés that Hollywood has been dispensing for 70 years?” (New York Times )