Acclaimed African film Ijé (The Journey) to be released in North America on Amazon and iTunes December 4
- “Ijé breaks into our fears, our dreams, our hopes and manages to make music of our nightmares – a heart-rending hum.” – Nigerian Entertainment Today -
On December 4, 2012, America will finally have the chance to view one of Africa's most popular films, Ijé (The Journey), featuring two of its biggest box office stars, Genevieve Nnaji and Omotola Ekeinde, seen onscreen together for the first time.
Opening to rave reviews when it premiered in 2010, Ijé was an instant box office hit in Nigeria, selling almost as many tickets as “Avatar.” The film went on to win top prizes at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, the Canada International Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Arizona Black Film Showcase, Las Vegas International Film Festival, and Mexico International Film Festival, among others.
Ijé is the story of two sisters who chose radically divergent paths in life, each one influenced differently by a childhood of poverty and violence. Against her father's wishes, Anya (Ekeinde) moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a recording artist. Chioma (Nnaji) remained behind in Nigeria, making her profession in the banking industry. Neither has seen each other for years when Ana is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the death of her husband, a successful record producer, and two strangers he brought home to their Hollywood Hills mansion. It soon surfaces that she is mysteriously withholding vital details that could acquit her. Chioma and Anya’s new attorney, Jalen Turner (Ulrich Que), have only hours to solve the mystery before the trial begins.
“Ijé is the story of a sister’s love, but most importantly it reveals the repressed voice of many women across Africa,” writes Joy Isi Bewaji for Nigerian Entertainment Today. “Ijé brings to the fore some important themes in today’s world, including love, racism, culture, stigma and life as an immigrant in a foreign country….This movie also highlights the culture of shame and silence and the stigma attached to rape and rape victims. Indeed a clash of two cultures, social attitudes towards rape and rape victims in the Nigerian society threaten to banish Anya to the American prison for the rest of her life,” explains Nigerian critic Gbenga Awomodu.
Directed and produced by Nigerian-born Chineze Anyaene, Ijé has had a major influence on Nigeria's Nollywood film industry, notably the second largest in the world. “Since the inception of filmmaking in Nigeria 15 years ago, the world has been waiting for one Nollywood film that stands apart from the rest, one that will capture the minds and hearts of movie-goers worldwide, one that will leave a timeless memory, capable of illustrating the creativity, tradition, and essence of Nigerian culture. Ijé is that movie,” noted Nairaland upon its debut.
As of December 4, 2012, Ijé can be streamed from Amazon Instant Video, iTunes, and the Global African TV website. DVDs can also be purchased from Amazon.com (U.S.) and Amazon.com (Canada). For more information, go to www.globalafricantv.com.
Ijé is being distributed in North America by Global African TV, which was recently founded to bring the best of mainstream African cinema to audiences in North America. Despite Africa's prominence as the second largest film industry in the world, indigenous films made by and featuring black talent have rarely been available for viewing in the U.S. and Canada—except through specialty in areas with large immigrant populations.
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THE NGOMA AFRICA BAND
- Ngoma Africa Band, a German based Tanzanian band is now one of the oldest and most successful Africans bands in Germany. -
Many African bands in Europe hardly survive for more than a year. Yet Ngoma Africa Band, founded by Ebrahim Makunja aka Ras Makunja in 1993, is still growing stronger.
The band plays "Bongo Dance", which is a unique combination of traditional and modern Tanzanian rhythms with Soukous and Rumba. All theirs songs are in Kiswahili.
Ngoma Africa Band has released several successful hits including “Mama Kimwaga” (Sugar Mummy), “Anti-Corruption Squad” and “Apache wacha Pombe” (Stop over drinking).
In 2010 Ngoma Africa Band released a single in praise of Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete. The song titled “Jakaya Kikwete 2010” praises Mr. Kikwete’s good leadership skills and commitment to fight corruption.
On 12th August 2012, Ngoma Africa Band received the International Diaspora Award (IDA) at the International African Festival Tubingen 2012, Germany, for their hard work in promoting East African music throughout Europe.
Ms. Susan Muyang Tatah, CEO of the International African Festival Tubingen 2012 said Ngoma Africa Band was also chosen for the Award because of their creative performance on stage. It’s difficult to resist dancing at their concerts, she said.
This year the band released a new CD titled "Bongo Tambarare" featuring "Supu ya Mawe" and "Uhuru wa Habari". The new release is already dominating air waves in Tanzania.
"Supu ya Mawe" advices the listeners to work hard and be patient while pursuing their objectives in life. It also appeals for generosity towards the needy.
"Uhuru wa Habari" praises African journalists who are bold enough to speak out the truth in environments where freedom of speech is quite limited.
Ngoma Africa Band is famous for staging thrilling shows in festivals in different parts of Europe. The band’s joyful female dancers, wearing traditional costumes and dancing vigorously to their tunes, always leave fans asking for more.
Ngoma Africa Band is composed of talented young musicians including soloist Christian Bakotessa aka Chris-B, Said Vuai, Matondo Benda, Jonathan Sousa, A-Jay, Richard Makutima, Bedi Beraca "Bella" and Jessy Ouyah.
For further information about Ngoma Africa Band and to listen to their music, please visit www.ngoma-africa.com and be connected at contact@ngoma-africa.com.
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“Yefon” The Movie
- A young African woman with dreams of becoming a teacher takes reading and writing lessons from a visiting American. But when the male village elders find out, she is sentenced to death for breaking from tradition.
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“Yefon” is a film that continues in the proud tradition of socially conscious, Africa-based cinema like “Hotel Rwanda,” “Beat the Drum” and “Sarafina”—but unlike those movies, its producers will come from the ranks of generous Kickstarter supporters: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/405663859/yefon-the-movie
It has already attracted the attention of Hollywood stars like Jimmy Jean-Louise (“Tears of the Sun” “Heroes”), Adriana Barraza (Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee, “Babel”) and Hakeem Kae-Kazim (“Hotel Rwanda”). The film is being co-produced by Justin Massion, the director of the Kickstarter campaign for “Space Command,” which brought in $75,000 in just three days, and ended with over $200,000.
“Yefon” is the brainchild of 22-year-old actress and filmmaker Sahndra Fon Dufe, who got her inspiration from too many similar, true stories from Africa. Broken-hearted by this sad reality, she and the production team have pledged to use a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the film, a companion documentary, books and related merchandise to build an all-girls school in Nso, the Cameroon village where “Yefon” is set.
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JOURNEY OF HOPE OR DESTINY
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I am pleased to bring to your attention a topical fictional JOURNEY OF HOPE OR DESTINY, which for convenience, adopts Yoruba/African philosophical worldview to narrate a story that reflects the global influence of social construct of races and skin color particularly in the West. This illuminating piece of modern history portrays a comprehensive image of the Yoruba/African man’s intrinsic cultural perspective, values, and virtues, whilst the multiracial characters each searches for individual answers in the journey of life and hoping for compensations in their final destiny.
It incorporates additional features and commentaries on the conditions of the society’s social ills that plague it, a leadership-induced lack of self-belief since the discovery of crude oil and a senseless civil war. Nonetheless, the erring leadership was not the same that toiled for and won the political independence, but rather, the leadership of rapacious looters who are nothing more than uniformed, inheritors’ class, untutored, oppressive, and temperamentally unsuited for political governance, that assumed the reign of power for the lucre. It is my firm confidence that you will find the story quite illuminating.
The stylized novel is published on Amazon Kindle eBook, and allows you to read on Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Mac, and PC.
I hope you will introduce this insightful eBook to your friends, observers and particullarly students in African and African American Studies programs for its reflection of the modern-day involuntary migration of highly educated Africans back to the West.
With appreciation and best regards.
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