Africa in Silver Spring: Upcoming Movies and Entertainment Awards

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AFI, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Half of a Yellow Sun, Liberia, Lumumba, Montgomery Community College, New African Films Festivaal, Politics & Prose, Raoul Peck, Silver Spring, TransAfrica Forum

On a walk to Silver Spring today I passed by the Montgomery Community College which had an announcement for the Liberian Entertainment Awards this Saturday scrolling outside its performing arts center for all passersby on Georgia Avenue to see.

A few minutes later I passed by the AFI Theatre where TransAfrica Forum’s 10th annual New African Films festival will screen in a few weeks.  Half of a Yellow Sun, the film adaptation of a book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (who has me thoroughly mesmerized after I saw her at Politics & Prose in May) will be screening as part of it and AFI also has a film introspective by Raoul Peck coming soon.  Peck has made a film on Lumumba, and as I recall, he is a Haitian who grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Writing for the Ones Who Suffer History, Not Those Who Make It: An Aggressively Afrocentric Ishmael Beah at Politics and Prose

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child soldier Africa, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ishmael Beah, Kony 2012, Long Way Gone, Mende, Oberlin, Paul Theroux, Radiance of Tomorrow, Sierra Leone, Taiye Selasi, UNICEF

I’ve heard prominent authors such as Paul Theroux, Taiye Selasi, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speak at Politics and Prose since launching this blog.  The independent bookseller continues to impress me with the number of African or Afrocentric writers it hosts.  This Friday, Ishmael Beah, a former Sierra Leonean child soldier, who shot to prominence with his autobiography Long Way Gone, spoke at P&P to promote his just released novel, Radiance of Tomorrow.

The Pleasing Results of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Wardrobe Malfunction & Her Thoughts on Race, pan-Africanism, and Gender

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Adichie gender, Adichie on Taiye Selasi, Adichie pan-africanism, African writers, Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wardrobe malfunction, Nigeria, Nigerians on race in America, Politics & Prose, Purple Hibiscus

Politics & Prose continued its foray into Africanist literature (I recently reviewed an event there with the African travel writer Paul Theroux) this evening.  The Nigerian raised and American educated Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie read a selection from her new novel, Americanah and managed to give some pretty interesting responses to questions disguised as fawning statements or personal political polemics.

Adichie opened the evening by speaking of