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Headline Film Screening of "Bigger than Africa"

Caption Description "The United Nations Remember Slavery Programme hosts a discussion and a screening of the film “Bigger than Africa” in partnership with the International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024. The film tells the story of how the Yoruba culture survived suppression during the transatlantic slave trade and remained prominent in the New World. Nigerian-born film director Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye will introduce the film and participate in a discussion following the film.
Posing for a group photo are, from left to right: Jacob K. Olupona, Professor of African Religious Traditions Harvard Divinity School; Avery Ammon, Director of Afrika House, Trinidad and Tobago; Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye, Director of ""Bigger Than Africa""; Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications; Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly; Kamil Olufowobi, CEO of the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD); and Nanette Braun, Chief of Communications Campaigns at the Department for Global Communications."

Unique Identifier UN728530

NICA ID 826885

Production Date 10/02/2019 6:39:01 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Evan Schneider