Branwen okpako biography sampler

  • For her documentary film The Education of Auma Obama, Okpako received the African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary and the Viewers Choice.
  • Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria.
  • Branwen Okpako, in turn, was born in Lagos/Nigeria in , studied political science in the UK, and during the s enrolled in the Deutsche.

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    African Women of the Screen at the Digital Turn

    Beti Ellerson

     

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    Introduction

    When I conceptualised the Sisters of the Screen project as a book and film, I envisioned an “imagined community” of kindred spirits, a “sisterhood” where the screen was their ultimate point of convergence. The screen is where their images are read; whether it’s a movie screen, television set, video monitor, computer screen, tablet or mobile phone, for a director, producer, film festival organiser, actor, critic or spectator the screen is the ultimate site where the moving image is viewed, interpreted and understood.

    With the phenomenal development of screen culture as a result of the digital turn, I return to the “screen” as a conceptual framework that integrates screen media, and their associated devices and technologies; hence, the concept “African women of the screen” as the organising principle. This report e

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    Life in East Germany, (back to top)

    • Mr. Fawcett began with images of the devastation wreaked on the cities and infrastructure bygd the Allied bombing raids, as well as the block-by-block combat necessitated bygd the Germans' hopeless last-ditch resistance effort (primarily in Berlin).
      • Mass rape bygd Soviet soldiers did not endear the later "big brother" to the East German populace. According to Antony Beevor in Berlin: The Downfall ():
        "Estimates of rape victims from [Berlin's] two main hospitals ranged from 95, to , One doctor deduced that out of approximately , women raped in the city, some 10, died as a result, mostly from suicide. The death rate was thought to have been much higher among the million estimated victims in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia. Altogether at least two million German women are thought to have been raped, and a substantial minority, if not a majority, appear to have suffered multiple rape."
        (Quotation from a May 1, Guardian a
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        CAMPSSAH Scholars

        Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH) Scholars

        José Manuel Santillana Blanco

        Assistant Professor, American Studies

        José Manuel Santillana Blanco is an activist, scholar and storyteller. As the son of Mexican immigrant parents, José Manuel was politicized within the rural migrant farmworker landscapes of central California. He received the University of California President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of American Studies at UC Davis. Drawing on the work of Black, Latinx and Indigenous decolonial thinkers, his work explores the ways Black, Immigrant and Indigenous women-led community struggles across the United States have been foundational to our understanding of racialized social life, ecological violence and resistance across entangled geographies. His work titled Racial Motherhood Ecologies examines the intricate role local environ