In a new 12-part film series commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the World Monuments Fund, Ethiopian-American filmmaker Sosena Solomon journeys across Africa to capture the continent’s rich cultural heritage and through the eyes of those who protect it.
The late Nigerian literary colossus Chinua Achebe once identified the dominant image of Africa in Western psychology as “a place of negations at once remote and vaguely familiar”. For hundreds of years, African realms were loci to be both feared and diminished by predatory outside interests, like bad dreams banished in the dismissive clarity of a white dawn.
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