Nadia Sasso Explores Too African to be American, Too American to be African
"Am I?" follows women of West African descent in order to document their unique stories on identity development and the tensions experienced between their West African and American cultural experiences. It is written, produced, and directed Nadia Sasso, a ...
Listing of Select African and Afro-Diasporan Art Exhibitions Worldwide
Dynamic Africa provides a and-picked list of African and Afro-Diasporan art events happening around the world on its Tumblr page that is updated weekly. Dynamic Africa is a Pan-African Cultural blog with a contemporary focus. With a team of contributors b ...
Ava DuVernay distributes Ayanda South African coming of age drama in the US
Ava DuVernay, Selma director, and her distribution company, ARRAY, will be releasing Ayanda, a South African coming of age drama in the US, specifically theaters in Los Angeles and New York. Directed by Sara Blecher, Ayanda, tells the story of a young ...
Africa Doesn’t Need (Dumb) Volunteers: Who Wants To Be A Volunteer?
Rusty Radiator, the group who brought you the hilarious Radi-Aid (Africa For Norway) and Let's Save Africa - Gone Wrong videos, on November 7 uploaded its new video on YouTube. In the video, titled Who Wants To Be A Volunteer?, we meet Lily, a volunteer w ...
Why sub-Saharian Africa has little historical buildings and monuments
When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonder “Why there are no historical buildings or monuments?” The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of them. We only have left drawings and descriptions by travelers who have visited the pla ...
What I Wasn’t Taught In School: Black History Month!
There seems to be a lot you haven't told us, and you shut down and hold back on the bold ones who stand against the way you're trying to mold us. Here's a short spoken word film about a student who is frustrated at the repetitive black history teaching i ...
American Media and The Ebola scare
Russell Howard looks at the extreme difference in coverage of Ebola in the UK and USA. // fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); // ]]> Post by Football is a Country. // fjs.parentNode.insertBefore( ...
Madam Secretary’s Republic of West Africa
On October 26, Madam Secretary, the new CBS show starring the lovely Tea Leoni as an affable, idealistic secretary of state, aired its sixth episode titled The Call. IMDb lists the episode's synopsis as "Elizabeth faci unexpected consequences when she mak ...
Adam Sandler Went to Africa the Hollywood Way
Adam Sandler has a new movie out called “Blended”, starring Drew Barrymore. Adam's character, Jim, goes on a karmically bad date with Drew's character, Lauren. They somehow happen to know the same person who has TWO tickets to Africa. This person gives th ...
List of African countries (54)
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of Congo Republic of Congo Cote d'Ivoire Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gab ...