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Hosted by award-winning journalist Barbara Angopa and filmmaker Amaka Ugwunkwo, Hollywood Africans reframes the lives of misunderstood characters in the movies.
Silenced, underestimated, objectified, infantilised and vilified Africans on film get their podcast remake.
Barbara and Amaka weave in their personal experience, current affairs and social context to reimagine motives and devise alternative plots.
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English
United Kingdom
13 episodes
since Sept. 24, 2024
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If legendary detective Miss Marple was set in Africa….she’d turn out something like Precious Ramotswe in beautiful and tranquil Botswana.Despite being underestimated Precious and her band of friends and colleagues solve crimes… one cup of Red bush tea at a time.But is this lady sleut…
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Before Wakanda, Zamunda was the go to movie for fictional African kingdoms.But does the comedy Coming to America throw Zamundan women under the bus?Welcome to Hollywood Africans, the podcast which reframes, recasts and remakes Africa and Africans in the movies.
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What could go wrong for an undercover Zamundan Prince searching for a bride in Queens, New York?
Prince Akeem navigates culture shock and diaspora battles to preserve his family dynasty in the classic 1980’s comedy Coming to America.
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Mercurial and Malignant or misunderstood?
During a medical mission to Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of President Idi Amin.
But Garrigan soon realises that he’s become complicit in atrocities in a murderous regime and tri…
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Mercurial and Malignant or misunderstood?
During a medical mission to Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of President Idi Amin.
But Garrigan soon realises that he’s become complicit in atrocities in a murderous regime and tri…
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Out of Africa’s doomed romance, set against the backdrop of stunning Kenyan landscapes, was among the top box office draws in 1985.It tells the story of a Danish aristocrat who travels to Kenya in the run-up to World War One to set up a coffee farm in Kenya with her philandering husb…
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Out of Africa’s doomed romance, set against the backdrop of stunning Kenyan landscapes, was among the top box office draws in 1985.It tells the story of a Danish aristocrat who travels to Kenya in the run-up to World War One to set up a coffee farm in Kenya with her philandering husb…
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Why doesn't Tarzan have any African friends, despite being brought up by an ape family somewhere in Africa?
Explore this intriguing question and more on the long-suffering African carriers risking their lives for an expedition party in part 2 of Tarzan the Ape Man review.
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The 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man tells the story of European explorers on an expedition to find a fabled elephant graveyard to make billions selling the ivory.Along the way an epic romance is born when Jane meets Tarzan, a European man brought up by apes in the jungle somewhere in Af…
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Somali pirates steal the show in the 2013 film Captain Phillips.
It tells the true life story of the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama off the coast off Somalia. Tom Hanks stars in the titular role and Barked Abdi as the pirate leader Abduwali Muse.
But does the film ignore what&a…
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