Episode 248: When Refuge in Words Finds Voice with Vamba Sherif
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week our Writing as Activism @ Pa Gya! 2024 continues in conversation with Liberian novelist, journalist, film critic, curator, speaker and lecturer of African Literature and Arts at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Vamba Sherif. Vamba has written several novels…
Episode 181: Pictures Worth Thousands of Words with James Barnor Part 3
Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens!
I’m fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His caree…
Episode 180: Pictures Worth Thousands of Words with James Barnor Part 2
Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens!
I’m fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His caree…
Episode 179: Pictures Worth Thousands of Words with James Barnor Part 1
Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens!
I’m fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His caree…
Guelwaar
We inaugurate (and conclude) our coverage of Senegalese master Ousmane Sembène with a discussion of his 1992 feature Guelwaar, the late filmmaker's only work of the decade. In essence a minor comedy of errors revolving around the misplaced body of a departed community leader and political agitator,…
Black History Month: Ousmane Sembène's "Black Girl" (1966)
For Black History Month, we are exploring the roots of independent African filmmaking. Black Girl serves as a powerful starting point for this journey, tracing the movement of a young Senegalese woman from Dakar to the French Riviera. We discuss Sembène's transition from literature to film as a mea…
Iron & Wine
Sam Beam of Iron & Wine goes record shopping at Amoeba Hollywood in this "What's In My Bag?" episode. The singer-songwriter shares how Lindsey Buckingham's guitar picking and John Prine's songwriting helped shape his sound; talks about some of his favorite films, including La Strada & Paper Moon; a…
Who Really Was the Father Of African Cinema? — Ousmane Sembène, By His Son Alain
Some filmmakers don't just make great films, they change who cinema is for.
60 years ago, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl (La Noire de...) announced a new cinematic voice to the world. Through the story of a young Senegalese woman working for a French family, Sembène exposed the brutal realities of co…
Why Black Girl Still Matters 60 Years Later w/ Djeneba Saccoh
Who gets to tell a story? And who gets to see themselves reflected on screen?
Sixty years after its release, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl (La Noire de..., 1966) remains one of the defining works of African cinema. Restored in 4K and re-released by Odyssey Classics for its anniversary, Sembène's gro…
100th Episode: A Look Back
A hundred eps, a hundred eps, you can hear the whistle blow a hundred eps. On our 100th episode (if you ignore the bonus episodes, panel discussions, and two-parters, so, like, using Tarantino logic), Josh and Andrew rummage through the archives and search for which films are worthy of being a part…
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