The Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF), is America's largest and most prestigious Black film and arts festival. This year, more than 100 films made by and/or about people of African descent from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the South Pacific, Europe and Canada. PAFF holds the distinction of being the largest Black History Month event in the country.
SAVE THE DATE! February 16-21, 2011 The Opening of the Pan African Film Festival Is Just Around the Corner Festival Set to Engage, Inform and Enlighten Attendees for Black History Month LOS ANGELES – The holiday season is here, but after all the turkey has been eaten and champagne bottles have been popped, it will [...]
Ancestor’s Call World Village The Immigrant Magazine, Matthew Forss The galloping sounds of Tuva’s throat-singing and instrumental ensemble, Huun Huur Tu, are revisited as more modernized sound palettes accentuate the group’s characteristic style of ancient melodies. Keep in mind, the group’s traditional instruments are still here, including the igil, doshpuluur, flute, byzaanchi, igil, and drums. [...]
Africa The Good News: The night of Sunday, October 17, 2010, concluded the week long musical festival, Felabration. A festival created to celebrate the life, music and fashion of legendary Nigerian singer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. The Felabration, according to the organisers, also celebrates and promotes Afrobeat, a genre birthed by Fela – a man also referred [...]
The purpose of the show is to educate Americans about the African cultures while presenting the best of music and other entertainment that is truly refreshing. We discuss topics like family values, traditions, cultures, lifestyles, business, and tourism and more.
After four days of intense discussion on aid versus trade at TEDGlobal 2007, it was up to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Finance Minister of Nigeria, to sum it up. She asks for the discussion to continue, and to grow more sophisticated, more nuanced. And she brilliantly refocuses the concept of foreign aid: As she points out, most Western countries could not have been built without "aid" from Africa; their rapid development relied on Africa's natural and human resources. So when the US or the UK gives aid, she says, what they are really doing is giving back. (Recorded June 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania. Duration: 22:22.)
