Upfront/Africa

Crossing the Atlantic from Luigi to Freetown on a rainy,windy afternoon.

This artwork #Murexplaza 👊👊

Back alley fooseball with Mukthar and Ahmed. @14th Sinkor #Monrovia

Jazz on the Atlantic featuring @MusictimeinAfrica's Heather Maxwell.

Morning traffic #Monrovia

Roberts airport. Monrovia

'It was not lost on us that we were being used by our ancestors to tell their story'--@itsgabrielleu #BirthOfANation

Nate Parker, Gabrielle Union on a panel at the premier of Birth of a Nation.

Ava Duvernay Will Be First African American Woman to Helm $100 Million Film

A YALI fellow celebrates after Pres Obama picks on her to ask a question.

The Great Wall... is the Last Samurai...is Argo...is Othello [1965] ....shld i proceed?

Meeting with YALI/Mandela fellows from Liberia.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.'--James Baldwin

Samuel "Sam" Sharpe, or Sharp, National Hero of #Jamaica, was the slave leader behind the widespread Jamaican Baptist War slave rebellion of 1832.  He was executed for his role in the rebellion, he said in his last words: "I would rather die among yonder gallows, than live in slavery. "