Geographer George Kimble said “the darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it,” and even in our internet-connected, 24-hour-news-cycle global economy, Africa remains, by accident or design, a mystery to most of the Western world. This semester, Cornell Cinema aims to alleviate some of that ignorance with a series of documentaries from the continent, including Egypt, Sudan, and Uganda in this calendar, and Congo and Swaziland in the next.
Learn about women’s social roles in Egypt in Ghazeia Dancers of Egypt, get an update on the crisis in Darfur in Sand and Sorrow; and glimpse the future for three Ugandan children living in a refugee camp in the Oscar-shortlisted War/Dance.