memoirs of sheba

BLACK LADIES IN FANTASY

“I remember seeing ‘Snow White’ and saying to my mother, ‘Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?’ She said ‘Probably. Why not?’ I just never thought the first black princess would be me.” — ANIKA NONI ROSE

OBAASIMA (2020) 

Accra, Ghana 

A Sunday School narrative.

Featuring Christel Kattlestroth

Photography by Carlos Idun-Tawiah

Directed by Josef Adamu

Produced by Ekow Barnes

A Continued Narrative from ‘The Hair Appointment’

They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I’ve looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge… Me.