AFF is excited to collaborate with Weeksville Heritage Center to kick off our 19th annual Summer Series with Footprints of Pan-Africanism by the L.A. Rebellion's, Shirikiana Aina, in honor of the exhibition: From Africa to Weeksville: The Eric Edwards Collection.

Special programming

Preview of exhibition and community discussion led by Naima Nur of Sun Song

About the Film

The documentary ­­Footprints of Pan-Africanism revisits the era of Ghana’s emergence into independence, when Africans on the continent and in the diaspora participated in building a liberated territory. This movement, rooted in the determination to reassert black people’s humanity and recover from the impact of slavery and colonialism, constituted an essential, indispensable part of the global Pan-African vision for liberation, which in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s ushered in no less than a black political and cultural revolution. Footprints ultimately celebrates the challenges young generations continue to pose to those who have yet to pick up the baton of the great Pan-African dreamers.
About Shirikiana Aina

About our Summer Series

During this annual series, AFF presents free programs throughout NYC, in public venues and city parks, including screenings of African cinema and family-friendly events such as the annual Family Day Celebration on Governors Island. Learn More