Africa

Guarding the Gorillas
Clare Richardson
October 15, 2009
01:02:41
Clare Richardson moderates a panel with Tara Stoinski, Mwami Alexis Kalinda, Juan Carlos Bonilla, Katie Fawcett, and Bryna Griffin. The group reports on their fight to save wild gorillas.
All About Africa
Julia Johnson-White
April 1, 2009
01:17:04
Julia White and Cedric Suzman of the Southern Center for International Studies, Bernadette B.
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
Richard Powell
March 14, 2009
00:54:53
Dr. Richard J. Powell discusses his new book, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. He examines the distinctive nature of modern and contemporary portraits of people of African descent.
Transforming Cape Town: Education Activists and Social Change
Catherine Besteman
February 19, 2009
01:25:24
Catherine Besteman, chair of Anthropology at Colby College, speaks about her new book, Transforming Cape Town, which explores the emotional and personal aspects of the legacy of apartheid and the transition to black majority rule in South Africa.
Paul Goodnight: Memorial for the Middle Passage
Paul Goodnight
October 30, 2008
00:26:54
African cultural artist Paul Goodnight talks about the power of art and its ability to fight inhumanity, change perceptions, and heal old wounds. This is what a Boston monument memorializing the slave trade's "Middle Passage" could do for the world.
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Helene Cooper: House at Sugar Beach
Helene Cooper
September 15, 2008
00:49:50
Award-winning journalist Helene Cooper discusses her new book, The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, a memoir of her youth in Liberia and what occurred after she and her family were exiled to America.
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Step Into Africa: Living With AIDS
Princess Kasune Zulu
August 14, 2008
01:01:18
Princess Kasune Zulu shares first-hand knowledge of what it means to be orphaned by AIDS and to contract it herself.
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Chasing the Crescent Moon: Sickle Cell Disease
Kwaku Ohene-Frempong
July 26, 2008
00:59:06
A genetic disease mostly affecting those of African descent, sickle cell produces debilitating pain and a life sometimes cut short, especially for the undiagnosed.