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The pilot delicately handles the scene where Uzo-Amani’s progressively, according to their family, “bizarre”, dress sense is finally explained in a heated confrontation with her parents. She reveals her...

These markers critically help to provide a sense of inclusion to those of us whose cultures are featured in the pilot, as well as indicate that other Afro-Canadian traditions...

The film’s protagonist, Keity Richardson (Schelby Jean Baptiste) is forced to intern at the morgue when she cannot find a vacancy in her preferred field of surgery shortly after...

I was struck by Keity’s features; her dominance as the central figure of the film evoked memories of Ousmane Sembène’s 1966 film Black Girl [La Noire de…].  The third...

Mati Diop has downplayed Sembène’s influence on her work in favour of her uncle, Djibril Diop Mambety’s filmography. Samba Gadjigo, the foremost scholar on Sembène, argues that  Sembène paved...

In addition to having a young black female lead in their respective films, Cooke and Sembène successfully “memorialize the everyday” by disregarding the white gaze. The distinction between the...