Our Staff Picks column is a new addition that takes you back to a time when video stores reigned supreme and the "Staff Picks" section was the place to find out what films were worthy of one's time. Of course, our version has a decidedly nude angle, as we suss out which films from a certain genre with great nudity. This week: African films!
Africa is a huge, diverse content so the films that it churns out reflect that fact. From North Africa to South Africa, there are a variety of cultures, languages, and hot men to take a look at. These are the films from Africa that have the best dudity! African films are often overlooked, but not today. Let's check out these hotties from Africa:
Gaia
South African director Jaco Bouwer delivered this whopper of a fantastical horror film just last year. It takes place in the mysterious Tsitsikamma Forest in South Africa where hallucinogenic mushrooms, park rangers, and people living off the grid collide. A park ranger and her partner come upon survivalists down the river when a ranger gets caught in one of their animal traps.
The survivalists are not who the rangers have to worry about. They tell the rangers that there is a tribe of half-man, half-mushroom monsters in the woods who are after all of them. It turns out to be true! Carel Nel stars and connects with mother nature in a scene where he lays naked on some tree branches. We want to connect with that booty!
Touki Bouki
Let's head over to Senegal during the Golden Age of Sengelese cinema with this verifiable classic. Touki Bouki is a 1973 African drama about a cow herder who meets a college student. The two are young, in lust, and dreaming of something more for their lives. They go on an adventure to leave the city of Dakar and try to make something of themselves in Paris.
Magaye Niang is our leading man who has us wanting to herd his hiney when he stands up naked in a convertible with the top down. I looooove that view!
Canary
This 2018 film is about a small-town young man who has to serve his mandatory miitary service during South African Apartheid. This coming-of-age story shows this young man figuring out his sexuality and singing about it while he joins the military.
No, seriously he sings. This is a musical! We are singing like canaries at the sight of Beer Adriaanse and Emile Tredoux's cocks in the shower.
Shaka Zulu
This classic South African mini-series from 1986 basically said: do you want ass? Cause we've got ass! In this retelling of the rise and fall of the powerful Zulu king Shaka Zulu (played here by the extremely hot Henry Cele), we learn all about Shaka's life from birth to death as European colonizers came in and warred with the Zulu Empire.
There are so many hot shots of Henry's ass in this. Glen Gabela also plays Shaka at a different phase in his life and he shows off one of the perkiest peaches in a mini-series. Look at his round, delicious buns which we get to ogle in multiple scenes!
Did you want an even sexier ass? May I present actor Conrad Magwaza for your enjoyment? These Zulu hotties are zo zexy!
The Wound
The Wound is a South African co-production about an initiation ritual in the Xhosa tribe that stars all real Xhosa actors. Xolani is about to initiate a time-honored manhood ritual for teen boys in his tribe. He is played by Nakhane Toure and he starts a relationship while on this journey with Bongile Mantsai. The two are hot, gay, and hunky!
They even lay in the grass after lovemaking. Hey, is that a snake in the grass or are you guys just happy to see me?! Seriously, we see cock! This film is monumental for showing homosexuality and the Xhosa tribe.
As I Open My Eyes
Let's head all the way up to North Africa for a Tunisian flick! As I Open My Eyes is a 2016 film about the summer of 2010 in Tunisia, right before the Tunisian Revolution. A young woman has recently graduated from school and finds herself battling her family's expectations for her versus her desire to become a rockstar who makes political statements. When a political revolution breaks out, she worries that her dreams might not matter after all.
Before she reckons with what political revolution might mean for her and her future, she reckons with her lover's cock and balls. That's actually my favorite thing to reckon with. Montassar Ayari plays her beautiful lover who lays in bed naked and shows off his dick. That's a reason to open your eyes!
Moffie
Let's go back to South Africa's shameful Apartheid history for Moffie, a 2020 war film that takes palce in the 1980s. An 18-year-old named Nicholas, played by Kai Luke Brummer, is summoned to do his mandatory military service. Much like in the film Canary, Nicholas is feeling insecure and struggling with his sexuality. He crushes on boys even though homosexuality is strictly forbidden in the army. What's he going to do?
Things get difficult for our young hero when he and his friend, fellow recruit Ryan de Villiers, start to become more than just friends. Their flirtation becomes dangerous for both of them - potentially more dangerous than the battle at the border that they have both been drafted to fight.
Unlike Canary, this film is very serious and not at all a musical. But much like Canary, there are butt-naked shower scenes!
