Date: June 9, 2012, 2:00 PM 

Venue: Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001

 Presented by Caribbean Association of World Bank and IMF Staff (CAWI), Caribbean Professional Network (CPN), Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS), TransAfrica, and AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

in Celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Venue: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW, Room 221, Washington, DC 20001-4531, (Nearest Metro Station: Gallery Place on the Red Line).

Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006, 52 min), by Robin Shuffield – examines the story of African leader, Thomas Sankara, who initiated revolutionary changes in Burkina Faso.

Sankara came to power in Burkina Faso, in 1983, and immediately set the country on the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent.  He even changed the name of the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, ‘Land of Upright Men.’ 

Oil on Water

April 30, 2012, 6:30 – 8:00 PM

Busboys and Poets, 2021 14^th Street (14 & V), NW, Washington, DC

Join TransAfrica and BloomBars as we commemorate Earth Day 2012 with two films involving Africa and the fight for Environmental Justice.

The Stinking Ship (2011, 27 min), by Bagassi Koura – chronicles the humanitarian catastrophe that occurred after a Swiss-based oil and commodity shipping company unloaded its cargo of toxic waste in the middle of the largest city in Côte d’Ivoire.

No Fear: Truth Above All–The Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Story (2011, 10 min promo short), produced by Tylon Washington – tells the dramatic story of human rights activist and whistleblower Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, and details her fight on behalf of miners poisoned by Vanadium in South Africa, and her fight on behalf of federal whistleblowers facing reprisals in the U.S.  Her story is being made into a full-length documentary.  We will watch the promo short.

Film/Book Discussion on Africa and the African Diaspora

Monday, April 2, 2012, 6:00-8:00pm

Busboys and Poets, 2021 14^th Street, NW (14^th and V Streets), Washington,DC

An insightful and comprehensive collection of essays on the year’s events, African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions offers in-the-moment comment and analysis as well as informed reflection on the 2011 African uprisings. While the tumultuous uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have seized the attention of media analysts, the concurrent rebellions in Benin, Gabon, Senegal, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, and in other parts of the African continent have gone virtually unnoticed.

Tuesday, March 20th, 7 pm 

The Manuscripts of Timbuktu
(2009, 52 min), by Zola Maseko

The Manuscripts of Timbuktu examines the life of one of Africa's greatest scholars - Ahmed Baba - and the ancient manuscripts from one the ancient worlds' preeminent centers of learning.