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Interview: Director Frances Bodomo Talks About Her Film “Boneshaker” and African Globalization

April 16, 2012 By Megan Eardley 2 Comments

“Boneshaker” — the latest film by Nuotama Frances Bodomo, a Ghanaian filmmaker based in New York City — follows a Ghanaian immigrant family taking a road trip to a Pentecostal church in Louisiana to cure their violent daughter. As the family journeys to a tent revival at the ends of the levee-less Louisiana delta, they discover the complications […]

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Filed Under: FEATURED, FILM Tagged With: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Boneshaker, Ghana, Globalization, Louisiana, New Orleans, Nuotama Frances Bodomo, Playshena Rose Thomas, Quvenzhané “Nazie” Wallis, rituals, The Odyssey, tradition

The whole ‘Afrobeats’ thing

January 27, 2012 By Boima Tucker 10 Comments

Two recent features in the mainstream British media turned out to be enough to spur some debate about the so-called “Rise of the Afrobeats” in the U.K. The Guardian interviewed DJ Abrantee (quoting Abrantee as him having coined the term “Afrobeats” — or so the journalist said, which Abrantee later denied.

Filed Under: FEATURED, MUSIC, OPINION Tagged With: Afrobeats, Corporate Culture, D'banj, Danza Kuduro, Don Omar, France, Ghana, Globalization, Kanye, Mainstream, Nigeria, Paris, U.K.

Interview: Director Frances Bodomo Talks About Her Film “Boneshaker” and African Globalization

The whole ‘Afrobeats’ thing

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