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Haile Gerima’s
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In his highly anticipated opus BLACK LIONS - ROMAN WOLVES, legendary filmmaker Haile Gerima unfolds a vast, thunderous meditation on resistance, memory, and sovereignty.
This treatise on Ethiopian resistance to the second Italian invasion in 1935 finally lets the men and women barefoot soldiers speak and correct the historic record long dominated by false characterizations by Italian and western narratives.
DIRECTOR WRITER EDITOR HALE GERIMA PRODUCERS SHIRIKIANA AINA GERIMA HAILE GERIMA
MUSIC ASCHALEW FETENE WAGNEW ASHENAFI ASSOCIATE PRODUCER SELOME GERIMA
Your tax-deductible donations to BLACK LIONS - ROMAN WOLVES are vital as we enter the last stretch of completing this 10 hour documentary series.
We're Expanding!
Sankofa Video and Books has been part of encouraging literacy in the black community since its inception in 1997, offering books, movies and events by people of African descent. In order to increase its local impact, the bookstore is partnering with Mypheduh Film Inc. and Sankofa Institute to expand its physical space and offerings.
Since '97
Founded by Shirikiana and Haile Gerima and named after the internationally acclaimed film SANKOFA they produced. It's symbol, the Sankofa Bird, looks backward constantly checking as she moves into the future.
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe is liberated territory that hopes to be a place where thoughtful consideration of the past and future can take place via books, films, and programming particularly generated by and about people of African Descent.
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Upcoming Events
Poetry as Protest - New Age Poetry Showcase and Open MicWed, Apr 08Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Film Screening: TEZAFri, Apr 10Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Selah Poets' Onyx Class 1 Showcase: Ink & AncestrySat, Apr 11Sankofa Video Books & Café
After the British: Independence and the Militarization of Post-Colonial UgandaSun, Apr 12Sankofa Video Books & Café
Book Talk - The Damned Don’t Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and OrganizerMon, Apr 13Sankofa Video Books & Café
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