Volume I · MMXXVI · A Curator
A Curator
Daniel Okafor
African & DiasporaSenegal, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mauritania, plus contemporary work from London, Lagos, and New York
"I was twelve when I first saw Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl on a battered VHS my uncle had brought back from Paris. I have not seen a film since that mattered as much. I think most of the films I love are descended from that one, even when they don't know it."
"I send films from across the continent and across the diaspora — Sissako, Diop, Akin Omotoso, Mati Diop, Wanuri Kahiu. The slate I send is the slate I wish I had been given at fifteen."
— Daniel
From recent slates
From Mati Diop, which is to say from the daughter of Wasis Diop, which is to say from a lineage. The film is about Dakar and the sea. It is also, quietly, a ghost story.
Sembène's Black Girl. The one I told you about in our interview. Sixty-five minutes. It will not leave you.
A Nigerian film, made by a director who lives in London now, about a woman who returns home. I am sending this in part because of what you said about your own return.
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