Film Screening - Adwa: An African Victory
Sat, Mar 07
|Sankofa Video Books & Café
In honor of the 130th anniversary of the Victory of Adwa, join us for a special screening of Adwa: An African Victory, followed by an intimate conversation with filmmaker Haile Gerima!
Time & Location
Mar 07, 2026, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About the film
Adwa: An African Victory captures the independence and determination of the Ethiopian people. In response to the "Scramble for Africa," or carving up of the African continent by European colonizers following the infamous Berlin Conference of 1880, Ethiopians from all provinces and ethnic groups unified to defend their homeland from an Italian takeover. No one expected the Ethiopian army to successfully fight the well-trained and armed Italian army.
Haile Gerima was born and raised in 1946 in Gondar, Ethiopia. He grew up under the influence of the tales and stories of his mother, a teacher, and his grandmother as well as his father, a writer, playwright and former resistance fighter against the Italian colonialists.
After a brief period at the Creative Art Center of Haile Selassie University, Gerima emigrated to the United States in 1967 to attend the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago before transferring to…
Tickets
General Admission
$21.20
+$0.53 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00