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Mohamed Challouf was born in Tunisia in 1957. In 1983, with some help from a group of friends, he created the Giornate del Cinema Africano di Perugia and attended to its artistic direction until 1994. In 1992, he realized his first photographic book called I Figli del Sud and organized the exhibition, dedicated to his childhood in Africa (exhibited in more than 30 African and European cities). He was the co-author and producer of Italiani dell’altra Riva, a documentary about the memory of the Italian community in Tunisia and produced the film, Anastasia di Bizerta, that was selected for the Venice Cinematographic Art Exhibition. In 2000, he produced and directed the documentary, Ouaga, capitale du cinéma, selected for the Venice Cinema Exhibition in the same year and broadcast in Italy by Tele +. Since 2005 he has organized Hergla’s Film Encounter (Tunisia), a new festival dedicated to African and Mediterranean short and documentary films. Tahar Cheriaa: Under the Shadow of the Baobab documents the career of one of the core fathers of Pan-Africanism and founder of Africa’s first film festival, the Carthage Film Festival. After Tunisian independence, Cheriaa used all his energy to bring the first authentic images of postcolonial Africa to broader audiences. The film depicts Cheriaa’s ideas and projects, with interviews and archival material creating a complete portrait of the man and his fight for both Sub-Saharan African cinema and African cinema as a whole. Ouaga, capitale du cinéma - Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in the world, was the scene of an exciting cinema utopia. With the support of the young president Thomas Sankara, the festival became a symbol of the cultural renaissance of a whole continent. The assassination of Sankara stifled the hopes of millions of young Africans, but the dynamism of FESPACO and African cinema did not stop. Merawi Gerima is a filmmaker, organizer with the DC Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and DC Native.

Join us for a dynamic conversation on The World In My Bones: The Diplomat Queens Made with author Jennifer Erie (“Fête Jen”) and Dr. Jessica Whitaker, exploring identity, culture, and global journeys.

What does it really mean for Black boys to fly? Join us live at Sankofa Video Books & Café for an unforgettable conversation around Black Boys Fly—where storytelling meets healing, truth, and transformation. Author Shayler R. Barnes Jr. and Xavier Morgan dive into the realities, the resilience, and the rising of Black boys and men navigating today’s world. #BlackBoysFly #LiveInDC #BookTalk #BlackVoices #HealingInCommunity

Join us for a special screening of a film that follows two Kenyan women working to restore/reimagine a historic public library in Nairobi while grappling with questions of colonial legacy, access to knowledge, and the future of public institutions. Followed by a conversation with Dr. Greg Carr

Brian Mushana Kwesiga is a Ugandan-born entrepreneur, engineer, and diaspora civic leader whose work explores Uganda’s politics, diaspora-state relations, governance reform, cultural identity, and Africa’s place in the global economy. He is the Founder, Principal, and CEO of The eHub Group, LLC, a U.S.-based import-export and strategic advisory firm advancing a “trade, not aid” approach to African market access and diaspora-led development. Kwesiga was a 2024–2025 Africa Policy Accelerator Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. His writing and commentary have appeared in New Vision, Daily Monitor, and other outlets, where he has addressed issues including dual citizenship, diaspora rights, national identity, trade policy, and institutional reform. He previously served as the youngest-ever President & CEO of the Ugandan North American Association (UNAA), where he led reforms in governance, transparency, and diaspora engagement. Before entering entrepreneurship and policy work, he spent 15 years in aerospace and defense with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon Technologies. He holds degrees from Tufts University, Southern Methodist University, and Dallas College. Milton Allimadi is a PhD student in the History Department at Howard University. He was an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and at John Jay College. He's a co-founder and the publisher of Black Star News and an investigative reporter. He is the author of 'Manufacturing Hate--How Africa Was Denonized in Western Media.' He hosts a weekly 'Black Star News' show on WBAI 99.5FM New York Radio.

A special screening of Haile Gerima's 2008 film, TEZA and a discussion with actors Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur and Abby Tedla

Join us for a screening of The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up, a powerful documentary about two men who fought to prove their innocence after a wrongful conviction. The screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Too Black and Evan Wright.

ከጸሃፊ ተካልኝ ገዳሙ ጋር "አብዮታውያን በነገስታት ዙፋን ላይ" በተሰኘው መጽሐፍ ዙሪያ

Join us for an engaging conversation with author Dr. Bianca J. Baldridge, in dialogue with Brandelyn Anderson.

Join author Johnzelle Anderson in conversation with Paula G. Akinwole as they discuss Mixtape: A Memoir. Don’t miss this engaging evening of dialogue and reflection.

Join us for a discussion of Julia Wright’s powerful new poetry collection, moderated by Professor Greg Thomas. Julia will join via Zoom to share insights and answer questions.

About The Event Haiti and the Revolution Unseen invites scholars and artists of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) to know Haitians as Ginens (African Haitians) and Haiti as Ayiti Ginen (Africa Haiti). This form of knowing demands a decolonial understanding of the Haitian Revolution that privileges Africans and the immense political influence of their knowledge practices in Saint Domingue; and it also demands a reevaluation of stories of the Revolution as told by influential twentieth century Caribbean writers and supported by scholars who teach and write about Caribbean classics of the Revolution. These stories misremember and misrepresent the Revolution as a republican feat led by Caribbean born revolutionists. They write Africans out of the uprising and fail to engage resistant peoples on their own cultural terms, which results in artistic and critical engagements with the Revolution that are not only defeatist at conception, but they are fundamentally unable to nurture the reader’s decolonial imagination as intended. Natalie M. Léger is an Associate Professor of English at Temple University, who specializes in twentieth century anti-colonial thought and decolonial philosophy in Caribbean literature and African diasporic fiction. Her research interests also focus on race and visual culture, Latin American literature, and magical realist cultural production. She received her PhD in English Literature from Cornell University in 2011, completed an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tufts University in 2014 and was a 2016-2017 Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipient. Her first book, Haiti and the Revolution Unseen: The Persistence of the Radical Decolonial Imagination was recently published with Vanderbilt University Press in September 2025. Professor Carole Boyce Davies is Chair of the English Department at Howard University and H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters emerita and Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University. She is the author of the prize-wining Left of Karl Marx. The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008); the classic Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994); Caribbean Spaces. Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (2013) on the internalization of Caribbean culture; and a bi-lingual children’s story Walking/An Avan (2016/2017) in Haitian Kreyol and English. In addition to over a hundred essays, articles published in major professional journals, Dr. Boyce-Davies has also published fifteen critical editions on African, African Diaspora and Caribbean literature and culture such as the two-volume collection of critical and creative writing Moving Beyond Boundaries (1995): International Dimensions of Black Women's Writing (volume 1), Black Women's Diasporas (volume 2); the 3-volumeEncyclopedia of the African Diaspora (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008) and Claudia Jones Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Poetry, Essays (2011) and Pan-African Connections (2019) A member of the scientific committee for UNESCO’s updated GeneralHistory of Africa, she edited the epistemological forum on “Global Blackness” for the African Diaspora volume and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the African Humanities Forum (based in Mali). Her most recent publication is Black Women’s Rights. Leadership and the Circularities of Power (2022/2023). She is a past president of the Caribbean Studies Association which organized under her leadership the first CSA Conference in Haiti in 2016. Her popular essays and reviews have appeared in The Guardian (London), The Washington Post, The Crisis, Ms Magazine, Ithaca Journal, The Black Scholar, Miami Herald, Trinidad Express, Trinidad Guardian, Caribbean Today, Caribbean Contact, Newsweek.

Poetry as Protest - New Age Poetry Showcase and Open Mic Join us every second Wednesday of the month at Sankofa! New Age Open Mic is a free, youth-led poetry showcase and open mic held every 2nd Wednesday at Sankofa. New Age centers Poetry As Protest: where poetry meets revolutionary work. With tunes by DJ Kamea, live drummer Sundiata Gittens, and an in-house cafe and bookstore, this isn't just a mic, it's a community experience! Organized and hosted by 2025 Youth Poet Laureate and Howard Freshman Kai Diata Giovanni and slam & typewriter poet Jayden Antwine.