I few months ago, the writer Akin Adesokan, who was editing an issue of Farafina, the Lagos lit magazine, approached me to interview the pioneering Mahen Bonetti, the director of New York’s African Film Festival, an annual fixture at The Film Society of Lincoln Center (Mahen introduced New York audiences to filmmakers like Abderramane Sissako, [...]
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Out of Africa
Posted in film, Hollywood and Africa, Lagos, Leo Africanus, Lincoln Center, Mahen Bonetti, Molara Wood, my writing, New York African Film Festival, Nigeria, Sean Jacobs on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »