Screens: A Panafrica Film Series (Chicago)

For modern and contemporary artists working between Africa and the diaspora, film and photography have been tremendously important forms of creative expression. The six moving-image makers featured in Screens share the planetary hopes of Pan-Africanism, a set of bold visions first developed before 1900 that have galvanized global struggles for freedom and solidarity ever since. The films […]

Origins of African Nationalism

Test venue 21 Elder Ave, London, United Kingdom

Continuity and Rupture in the Movements of Unity Emerging from the Struggle against Portuguese Colonial Domination, 1911–1961 Exploring the development and structuring of African nationalist sentiment, the intellectual and sociological foundations of African nationalism, and the origins and social and cultural identities of the participants who helped form the anticolonial movements in the Portuguese colonial […]

Revolution will be a poetic act

Test venue 21 Elder Ave, London, United Kingdom

This book is a collection of essays and speeches by MĂĄrio Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and one of Africa's most important 20th century intellectuals. His writings think through the task of intellectual emancipation of colonized people, which he saw as predicated on the necessary project of political […]

Sarah Maldoror – An Alternative Identity – Cataluña cinematek (Barcelona)

The season of films Sarah Maldoror. An Alternative Identity responds to the need to network with the city’s institutions to develop a de-localised programme and the desire to highlight a pioneer of African film like Sarah Maldoror, who left us a wonderful legacy on the subject of negritude. The season sets out to revisit Maldoror’s work, as […]

Sarah Maldoror – An Alternative Identity (Tapies Foundation)

The season of films Sarah Maldoror. An Alternative Identity responds to the need to network with the city’s institutions to develop a de-localised programme and the desire to highlight a pioneer of African film like Sarah Maldoror, who left us a wonderful legacy on the subject of negritude. The season sets out to revisit Maldoror’s work, as […]