U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha

Time	Thursday, February 10 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location	Leacock 26
Created By	African Studies Students' Association, Ledah McKellar
More Info	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445776/ U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself, is well known..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNmxQJd3AI

bell hooks on patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism

"Renowned intellectual bell hooks examines popular culture in the context of patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLMVqnyTo_0

Things to look forward to!

ASSA is currently working on meeting with the African Studies Program Committee at McGill to discuss the program's future in the coming year.

We are also planning a 2 day Conference March 11 and 12, 2011 - we will keep you posted on updates for this awesome event!

Also, *** We will be hosting a Wine and Cheese in November, time and place to be announced soon. We will also have a meeting at the same time for all African Studies Student's to share with us their opinions/suggestion on the program.

Romeo Dallaire "THEY FIGHT LIKE SOLDIERS, THEY DIE LIKE CHILDREN"

http://now.concordia.ca/upcoming-events/20101102/nov-4---romeo-dallaire-they-fight-like-soldiers-they-die-like-children.php

Senator and LGen Roméo Dallaire (ret), author of Shake Hands With the Devil and UN Force Commander during Rwanda’s genocide will discuss his new book on the scourge of child soldiers:

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children.
(Random House Canada)

When: November 4, at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Room H-110, Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Admission is free.

Co-sponsored by the Concordia Student Union, McGill University Bookstore, Random House Canada, the Student Society of McGill University, and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University.

I love my hair - Sesame Street promotes love of "kinky hair"

An interesting video by Sesame Street promoting girls love of what they were given naturally, including "kinky hair".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enpFde5rgmw&feature=player_embedded

The following video was a project showing the preference of a group of black children who, in majority, chose white dolls over black dolls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDa0gSuAcg

An interesting blog on race.

http://www.racialicious.com/



A related article.

Sesame Street does it again!

Engaging in a little bit of non-alphanumeric teaching of kids, Sesame Street has gone viral once again (and this time without Katy Perry's cleavage.) A new video from the show that teaches little girls to be happy with what they've been given naturally, and simultaneously answers Chris Rock's Good Hair has garnered 585,000 views.

The piece, entitled "I Love My Hair" has a Muppet happily dancing and singing the praises of her kinky mane while telling children that whatever they've got growing is okay. "Don't need a trip to the beauty shop, 'cause I love what I got on top. / It's curly and it's brown and it's right up there. You know what I love? That's right, my hair!"

The song has even garnered a mashup with the video and Will Smith's daughter's runaway hit: Whip My Hair.

The idea was inspired by Sesame Street head writer Joey Mazzarino's five-year-old adopted daughter, Segi, who was born in Ethiopia. He noticed as she played with her dolls that she wanted long, straight blond hair, but thought only white parents of African American children had the problem until he found it was a much larger issue when he saw Rock's comedy documentary which talked about beauty perceptions, particularly among black women. Mazzarino, chose to put together the two-minute skit to let his daughter know her hair is nice just as it is.

"She really is loving her hair right now," Mazzarino told CNN.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/20/sesame-streets-i-love-my-hair-video-goes-viral/#ixzz12xBOYcEy

AMREF (African Medical & Research Foundation) Canada's new executive director Susanne

There's an article about AMREF (African Medical & Research Foundation) Canada's new executive director Susanne Courtney at



http://samaritanmag.com/maternal-child-health-fires-new-amref-exec-director 

October 14th Nollywood Film Screening!

POSTPONED!!

We are hosting a Nollywood Film Screening!

Nollywood is the 3rd (some sources now say 2nd) largest film industry in the world! Come see what flavours Nigeria is giving to film - be prepared for a new experience and some 'for sure' laughs!

Snacks will be served. Place TBA.

ASSA