((PKG)) PAN AFRICAN FILM AND ARTS FESTIVAL((Banner: Pan African Art))((Reporter/Camera: Elizabeth Lee))((Map: Los Angeles, California))((Henry Baba Osageyfo Colby, Jewelry Artist))We’re featuring New Guinea boar. ((NATS))((Ayuko Babu, Executive Director, Pan African Film and Arts Festival))As a result of the slave trade and colonization, African people are spread all over the planet. ((NATS))((Ayuko Babu, Executive Director, Pan African Film and Arts Festival))So, film, sculpture, fine art, jewelry, is all a reflection of the energy that we produce and it stimulates one or the other. There’s very little public space that explains the Pan African experience. L.A. is a cosmopolitan international city and in order to have a cosmopolitan international city, you have to have a cosmopolitan international film, especially this is the center of the film business.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 15, 2019 15:45 UTC