African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) is thrilled to announce the 31st anniversary of its iconic New York African Film Festival (NYAFF), which runs from May 8 – May 30, 2024. …
What inspired you to become a filmmaker? I became a filmmaker out of defiance, to put an end to that antiquated boilerplate, those old clichés according to which, in the …
Liberation Movements and Cultural Representations of African Dreams The Indochina war, which ended in May 1954 with the battle of Dien Bien Phu, began to shake a colonial empire that …
The African Film Festival, Inc. is proud to present the 30th edition of the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF). Celebrating the ongoing evolution of artistic liberation of the African …
African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) is thrilled to announce the 30th anniversary of its iconic New York African Film Festival (NYAFF), which runs from from May 10-June 1, 2023. Under …
Selbé et tant d’autres (Selbé: One Among Many; 1982) by Safi Faye (born 1943) begins how it ends. It is carried by song in a cycle that does not allow rest. In …
In March 2015, students across South Africa continued work begun by a generation that sacrificed secondary-school education to fight Apartheid. The Rhodes Must Fall movement galvanized efforts to decolonize curricula. …
“Jom” is a Wolof word which has no equivalent neither in French nor in English. “Jom” means dignity, courage, respect … It is the origin of all virtues. It somehow means …
Fanon: Yesterday, Today. Directed by Hassane Mezine. France/Algeria, 2018. 87 mins. French. In 2009, during my second year as a grad student at Brown University, Angela Davis came to deliver a …
Helen Rose products are vegan and free from tree nut derived ingredients. How do these benefit the skin? All of the Helen Rose products are not tree-nut ingredient free, but …
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will celebrate the kickoff of the 29th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) at FLC from May 12 to …
After great anticipation, the annual New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) returns under the banner, Visions of Freedom. With both in-theater and virtual offerings, the 29th edition of the NYAFF …
“I am an Afrocentric,” Professor Sheila Walker declares in “The Virtues of Positive Ethnocentrism: Some Reflections of an Afrocentric Anthropologist.” For Walker, Afrocentrism is not an exclusionary form of “ethnic …
I said I love being Black.I love the color of my skin,it’s the skin that I’m in.I love the texture of my hair,and I rock it everywhere.I said I love …
Transforming Anthropology²The Journal of the Association of Black AnthropologistsFiftieth Anniversary Issue — Vol 28, No 2, 2020 Originally appeared inTransforming Anthropology 2.2 (1991) The editorial board of Transforming Anthropology, the …
The United Nations (UN) declared 2015–2024 the International Decade for People of African Descent with the guiding themes of Recognition, Justice, and Development. Recognition, the theme here, which might be …
The African Diaspora and the Modern World was the title of the 1996 conference I organized, with support from UNESCO, at the University of Texas at Austin when I was …
Introduced in Egypt in 1896, cinema rapidly evolved to a thriving industry producing more than 4,000 films to date and becoming a distribution center for American films and, to a …
The 28th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF28) is presented under the banner, “Notes from Home: Recurring Dreams & Women’s Voices.” Programs in this edition of the festival present the …
Still from Our Lady of the Nile The 28th edition of the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) returns with a virtual program celebrating the shared aspirations that drive humanity through time and …
I can say without hesitation that Talking About Trees was born from an epic yet real image that happened in front of my eyes. It was the first time that …
Tickets go on sale 11/23. Full film listing below. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center and African Film Festival, Inc.,the 27th edition of the NYAFF runs online December 2-6. Under the …
With a dialogue track in French and Wolof, with English subtitles, and an original score composed by jazz musician Randy Weston, Ousmane William Mbaye’s biographical documentary on the Senegalese scholar …
Watch the video below and use the activity cards to learn more, create and build your own stories! About the Story This animal tale values memory to accomplish something. Nyira …
Watch the video below and use the activity cards to learn more, create and build your own stories! About the Story A young villager’s wrong choice has consequences and he …
Watch the video below and use the activity cards to learn more, create and build your own stories! About the Story The trickster tale is a type of story motif …
Interior↔ExteriorSubjective space, intuitive, ambivalent, willfully partisan.ThenTrace, cross out, trace again.Glimpse a fragmented reading.Trace, cross out, trace again.1Joseph Gaï Ramaka Filmmaker Joseph Gaï Ramaka, who was born in St. Louis, Senegal …
Learn the Kuku dance from renowned dancer and choreographer, Maguette Camara. Kuku is the rhythm of the forest part of Guinea, in the region of Beyla. Although not part of …
INTRODUCTION Distribution remains one of the main challenges facing African cinema. Reaching domestic and international audiences is difficult despite the promise of digital technological innovations over the last fifteen years. …
Under the banner “Looking Back, Looking Forward: 20 Years of the New York African Film Festival,”our 2013 edition is dedicated to commemorating half a century of African cinema and two …
The African Film Festival, Inc. is pleased to present the 11th New York African Film Festival. The program will open with the US Premiere of Critical Assignment, Africa’s first action …
25 Years of the New York African Film Festival 25 years ago, African Film Festival joined forces with Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) to honor African cinema and give …