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Mandela Movie, Long Walk to Freedom, Gaining Traction in DC

05 Thursday Dec 2013

Posted by africaindc in entertainment, Uncategorized

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Amnesty International, Idris Elba, Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela, SAWIP, Terrence Howard

2013-12-04 12.15.46

I’ve been seeing references to quite a few local screenings for the upcoming film on Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, which stars Idris Elba of The Wire, as Mandela.  Amnesty International is hosting an advance screening, as is the South Africa Washington Internship Program.  And as seen above, there’s also a promotional campaign going on.

It’s a bit more slick than the last Mandela film I blogged about, which hopefully indicates that it will be of better quality than the much maligned Winnie Mandela film that starred Terrence Howard as Madiba.

Update: I must have posted this just minutes before Mandela passed away today.  Like most, I see him as an admirable character, something that becomes particularly clear when I look at the founding fathers of Namibia, Sam Nujoma, and Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, who survive him.

(Guest Post)* SAWIP – Driving the African Century: Youth, Technology, and Entrepreneurship

30 Sunday Jun 2013

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Africa Rising, African youth, entrepreneurship in Africa, impact investing in Africa, SAWIP, South Africa, technology in Africa, Wilson Center

2013-06-25 15.39.37

* Guest Post by Sharon Czarnek

On June 26th, the Wilson Center hosted the South African Washington International Program (SAWIP) event.  While I wasn’t able to attend all 3 of the speaker series’, I did make it to two out of three. The first was entitled Business, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa.  The moderator was Tom Wheeler, the Managing Director of Core Capital Partners and the two panelists included Andile Ngcaba the Executive Chair of Dimension Data and David Frankel the Managing Director of Founder Collective. Continue reading →

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