African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power
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African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power

Chaîne:BBC Four

Épisode précédent

S01E03 - "Kenya"

Diffusé le Aug 31, 2020, 8:00 PM

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Description

Afua Hirsch shows Africa on its own terms, exploring the histories of Ethiopia, Senegal and Kenya through their extraordinary art, music and culture.

Détails

Statut
Terminée
Langue
English
Durée
60 min
Première diffusion
August 17, 2020
Terminée
August 31, 2020
Programmation
Monday à 21:00

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Épisodes (1 Saison · 3 Épisodes)

Ethiopia

Afua Hirsch traces Ethiopia's proud 3,000-year history through its art and culture, exploring a civilisation as significant as any in the west.

Aug 17, 2020

60 min

Senegal

In Senegal, Afua Hirsch discovers how exuberant hip-hop, film and fashion scenes have fed off colonial history, and she traces the story of a poet who became the father of Senegalese independence.

Aug 24, 2020

60 min

Kenya

In Kenya, a state created barely a century ago, Afua explores how the British spun an idealised stereotype while carving out a brutal empire. Afua reveals the extremes of life today, the urban sprawl and untouched outback, and a young population still pushing away the lingering darkness of the British imperial past.  In an epic narrative that takes in railway building, Karen Blixen, President Jomo Kenyatta and the brutal British suppression of the 1950s Mau Mau Uprising, she charts how artists have responded to history happening around them.  She meets acclaimed Kenyan painters Dennis Muraguri and Michael Soi and discusses the after-effects of the British colonial period and China's growing influence as a new power in East Africa.

Aug 31, 2020

60 min

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