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A Black woman farmworker stands against a sugarcane plant with a sickle in her hand in Haile Gerima’s ‘Sankofa’

Transmitting Unrecorded Black Histories: The Documentaries of Haile Gerima

“Did the Ethiopians really defeat the white men at the Battle of Adwa, or was the victory simply boasting?” Haile Gerima asked his father as a young

Mohammed Arif, a boy from Ethiopia, lies on his back with eyes looking up at the sky. Image from Jessica Beshir's 'Faya Dayi.' Courtesy of Cinetic Media.

Jessica Beshir's Documentary 'Faya Dayi' Sees Ethiopia In Black and White

“Memories, that is all you travel with,” Ibrahim Mohammed, a young man from Harar, Ethiopia, tells a much younger Mohammed Arif in Jessica Beshir’s

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