{"id":2688,"date":"2013-06-20T17:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:10:30","slug":"african-film-series-at-k-june-22-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/african-film-series-at-k-june-22-23\/","title":{"rendered":"African Film Series at K, June 22-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four documentary films centering on social justice issues critical to both Africa and the United States and that also have global implications will be presented at Kalamazoo College, Saturday June 22 and Sunday 23, in the Light Fine Arts Building, Connable Recital Hall, at 7:30 p.m. Showings are free and open to the public.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday films are <em>Fuelling Poverty<\/em> (28 minutes) and <em>Sweet Crude <\/em>(93 minutes), which are about the destructive crude oil extraction economy and the Occupy Movement in Nigeria.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sunday films are <em>God Loves Uganda <\/em>(90 minutes) which analyses the political implications of the American evangelical movement in Uganda, and <em>Native Sun <\/em>(21 minutes), a film by Ghanaian rapper and visual artist Blitz the Ambassador.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Broadcast Africa Film Series is brought to Kalamazoo by The US-Africa Network (<a href=\"http:\/\/usafricanetwork.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/usafricanetwork.wordpress.com<\/a>), an independent network with the aim of fostering an inclusive international and intergenerational dialogue about priorities and strategies for solidarity with Africa in the United States, in collaboration with Kalamazoo College\u2019s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. 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