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17.01.2020

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Chinonye Chukwu

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Claire Diao

Khadidia Djigo

Maimouna Doucouré

Rahmatou Keïta

Marème N'Diaye

Pascale Obolo

Akosua Adoma Owusu

Chinonye Chukwu

Chinonye Chukwu to helm first two episodes of Lupita Nyong'o HBO Max Series "Americanah"

Source: Deadline.com by Patrick Hipes. 15 January 2020.

https://deadline.com/2020/01/chinonye-chukwu-americanah-director-lupita-nyongo-hbo-max-series-1202831886/

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga: 'Reading Toni Morrison's Beloved Changed my life'

Source: Guardian.com 10 January 2020.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/10/tsitsi-dangarembga-books-that-made-me

Khadidia Djigo

Les Émissions CANAL+ Afrique

Claire Diao - TV s'est rendue au CanalOlympia Téranga de Dakar pour rencontrer sa directrice Khadidia Djigo

Source: Les Emissions CANAL+ Afrique Facebook Videos. 06 January 2020.

https://www.facebook.com/emissionscanalplusafrique/videos/461228978161992/

Maimouna Doucouré

Netflix Buys World Rights to Maimouna Doucouré’s Sundance-Player ‘Cuties’ - (Mignonnes)

Source: Variety.com by Martin Dale. 14 January 2020.

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/netflix-buys-world-rights-to-maimouna-doucoures-sundance-player-cuties-1203467013/

Rahmatou Keïta

Tête à tête avec Rahmatou Keïta

Source: Cameroon-tribune.com by Maimounatou. 07 janvier 2020.

https://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/article.html/30184/fr.html/CT-article

Marème N'Diaye

Les Émissions CANAL+ Afrique

Claire Diao - TV a rencontré l'actrice sénégalaise Marème N'Diaye actuellement en tournage sur l'île de Gorée, à Dakar

Source: Les Emissions CANAL+ Afrique Facebook Videos. 15 January 2020.

https://www.facebook.com/emissionscanalplusafrique/videos/505709106965048/

Pascale Obolo

Rencontre avec Pascale Obolo, cinéaste et fondatrice de la revue d’art Afrikadaa
« On ne peut plus continuer à parler de nous, sans nous ! »

Source: 9lives-magazine.com. 14 janvier 2020

https://www.9lives-magazine.com/48413/2019/01/14/rencontre-avec-pascale-obolo-cineaste-et-fondatrice-de-la-revue-dart-afrikadaa-on-ne-peut-plus-continuer-a-parler-de-nous-sans-nous/

VIDEO

Akosua Adoma Owusu

White Afro Trailer by Akosua Adoma Owusu

https://vimeo.com/348566057

Synopsis
A barber school haircut training video on how to give a white person an "Afro" hair-do.

The final film in Owusu’s hair trilogy, White Afro (2019), employs an archival instructional video produced by the educational department of the Barbers, Beauticians, and Allied Industries Association on how to offer curly perms or body waving services to their white clientele, ostensibly for financial gain. The training video is intermingled with Owusu’s mother’s experience working as a hairstylist at a predominantly white hair salon called Fantastic Sam's in Alexandria, Virginia. Offering a rare perspective on the Afro hairstyle—as an unmistakable marker of Black collective power that becomes a desirable, and appropriated, aesthetic during liberation movements—the film also expands on the abilities of non-Black beauticians and barbers to wield their shops as spaces for political change. -- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

White Afro Trailer by Akosua Adoma Owusu from Obibini Pictures LLC on Vimeo.