Congo on Our Mind
Sun, May 18
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
In Honor Of Malcolm X Centennial Birthday - Join Haile Gerima and Sankofa Video & Books in this space of Artistic Expression and Protest!
Time & Location
May 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About Elvie Banda
Elvie is Kinshasa born digital activist and organizer with the Future of Congo, a Congolese-led non-profit dedicated to empowering communities, promoting education, and creating opportunities for displaced children and vulnerable communities in Congo.
About Keith Mapeki
Keith Mapeki is a Congolese-born revolutionary advocate and creative designer whose vision aims to transcend and challenge political labels. Rather than identifying through ideologies, she defines herself by what she fights against (colonialism, capitalism, imperialism...) and by the liberation and role of Africa in leading a truly transformative revolution that is radical and rooted in ancestral wisdom, community, collective imagination, and spiritual memory.
About Kahwit Tela
A semi-lifelong southerner and the son of Congolese Immigrants, Kahwit Tela is originally from Nashville, Tennessee (a.k.a. Music City). He is a writer, a human rights advocate, a journalist, and a cartoonist. He is the co-founder of Kemi’s Friends, a family-run non-profit that aids displaced…