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• The SMELL DA COFFEE TV Sitcom Pilot: How Black? How Funny?

  I found this rather weird. Wasn’t Canada supposed to be more racially inclusive than the United States? Why then did the Americans have more Black TV sitcoms on...

• The SMELL DA COFFEE TV Sitcom Pilot: How Black? How Funny?

  But I knew I could do far more for my people (I’m originally from Nigeria, West Africa) if I could weave the Afro-Canadian stories I heard around me...

• The SMELL DA COFFEE TV Sitcom Pilot: How Black? How Funny?

  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...

• The SMELL DA COFFEE TV Sitcom Pilot: How Black? How Funny?

  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 Black Diaspora in Conversation: From Ousmane Sembène to Marilyn Cooke

  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...

• The Black Diaspora in Conversation: From Ousmane Sembène to Marilyn Cooke

  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...

• The Black Diaspora in Conversation: From Ousmane Sembène to Marilyn Cooke

  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...

• The Black Diaspora in Conversation: From Ousmane Sembène to Marilyn Cooke

  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...

• Blue Corridors: VOICES - Laura Anzola

  Entering the exhibition Voices by Laura Anzola (January 12 - February 24, 2024 at EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society) reminds me of plunging into the cold, dark waters...