Wednesday, February 26, 2025 4pm to 7pm
About this Event
2201 Argonne Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218
#PanafricanoPanafricano (Pan-African) is a call to rethink global history from Africa, celebrating its legacy as a cradle of civilizations and a source of inspiration for the future.
Panafricano is a transformative journey through African and Afro-descendant history, culture and identity. Narrated with an intimate, rigorous and critical perspective, the documentary follows director Antumi Toasijé as he travels through iconic places such as the majestic Pyramids of Egypt and the mausoleums of Pan-African leaders in Ghana and Ethiopia, before jumping to Colombia and connecting that historical legacy with
the African diaspora. This is not a tourist tour, but an exploration of African roots that have been systematically rendered invisible in Eurocentric historical narratives.
Through interviews with relevant figures in African culture such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, or experts such as Professor Albert Roca and Sergio Mosquera and activists such as Edna Liliana Valencia, and the poetry of Laura Victoria Valencia, as well as personal reflections, and an in-depth analysis of the film director among captivating images, Panafricano highlights the Africanness of ancient Egypt, vindicates figures such as Cheikh Anta Diop and Kwame Nkrumah, and revives the spirit of Pan-Africanism as a tool of resistance and unity.
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
About the director:
Antumi Toasijé
Historian, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (visiting professor) at Morgan State University in Baltimore, instructor of Global History at New York University in Madrid and IE University Spain. He has been president of the Spanish Council for the Elimination of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination (CEDRE).
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