Black World Cinema presents a discounted preview screening of “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love” a day before the documentary about the iconic Senegalese singer and activist opens for a weeklong run at Chatham 14.
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The Athlete
“The Athlete,” a biopic about Ethiopian gold medalist Adebe Bikila, screens 10/13 and 10/17 in the Chicago International Film Festival.
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Geof Bradfield’s African Flowers
Chicago jazz reedist Geof Bradfield unveils an ambitious new suite inspired by his African travels.
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Soul Power
“Soul Power,” the documentary about the all-star Zaire 74 concert starring James Brown, screens Thursday 10/1 at Chatham 14.
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African Festival of the Arts
Featuring Ahmad Jamal, Ohio Players, the Pharcyde, Booker T. Jones, and George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
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“Only the white people can go there for the gold”
Robert Nugent’s “End of the Rainbow” “Only the white people can go there for the gold,” a soldier tells a crowd of Guinean farmers displaced by a gold mine in Robert Nugent’s “End of the Rainbow,” screening Sunday, Aug. 8 at the DuSable Museum of African American History.
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Making waves
Local filmmaker Bob Hercules presents portraits of two great community organizers and a controversial Holocaust survivor in three documentaries screening this week in the first Chicago Independent Film Festival.
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A line of African-inspired clothing that helps actual Africans
Suno, a new line of modern separates made from Kenyan textiles by fair-trade workers in Kenya, debuts locally at Ikram.
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Tuesday linkfest
Why you should be thankful for U. of C. scientists, and public breast feeding.
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Ali Farka Toure
In Mali, when a family loses a child, by custom they give the next baby an unusual nickname. Ali Toure’s mother had borne nine boys who died in infancy, so when she had her tenth she called him “Farka,” which means “donkey.” And the young Ali did turn out to be stubborn, bucking his country’s […]
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Ali Farka Toure
Ali Farka Toure sometimes sounds like he has one foot planted in the Mississippi Delta and the other in the Niger. His work is deeply rooted in Malian tradition; in one interview he explained that he sings about “education, work, love, and society.” But although he sings exclusively in West African languages, he sounds like […]