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Film screenings, art installations, book talks and lectures, performances, workshops and more, designed to engage community members of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities with an interest in contemporary African life.

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Read more about 3rd Annual African Animation Film Festival starting on Thursday, November, 21st, 2024

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Read more about 3rd Annual Harlem African Animation Film Festival starting on Wednesday, November, 20th, 2024

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Read more about Film at The Africa Center - Know Your Place starting on Thursday, November, 14th, 2024

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Read more about Film at The Africa Center presents Omen starting on Wednesday, October, 30th, 2024

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Read more about Film at The Africa Center presents You Will Die at Twenty starting on Wednesday, October, 2nd, 2024

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Read more about Swahili at The Africa Center starting on Wednesday, October, 9th, 2024

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Read more about The Lions Den - Iris Mwanza in Conversation with Namwali Serpell starting on Thursday, October, 3rd, 2024

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Read more about Film Screening - Guelwaar starting on Wednesday, July, 31st, 2024

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Read more about Survival starting on Monday, July, 29th, 2024

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Read more about Africa Day 2024 starting on Saturday, May, 18th, 2024

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Read more about The Africa Center and Jollof Films present A New Multiculturalism Film and Conversation - Exploring the Legacy of Malick Sidibe starting on Wednesday, May, 1st, 2024

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Read more about Film at The Africa Center presents The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo starting on Thursday, April, 18th, 2024

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Read more about Curators Perspective - Paula Nascimento starting on Wednesday, April, 3rd, 2024

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Read more about Museum Mile Festival starting on Tuesday, June, 18th, 2024

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Read more about Film at The Africa Center - Freda starting on Thursday, March, 28th, 2024

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Read more about A New Multiculturalism starting on Wednesday, March, 27th, 2024

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Read more about A Radical Exploration of Global Feminism Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Mona Eltahawy in Conversation with Hannah Giorgis starting on Thursday, March, 14th, 2024

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Read more about Post-AFCON Reflections The State of African Football starting on Tuesday, March, 5th, 2024

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Read more about His Name Is George Floyd In Conversation With Toluse Olorunnipa starting on Thursday, February, 29th, 2024

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Read more about Coded Language starting on Thursday, February, 22nd, 2024

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Read more about Film at The Africa Center presents The Gravediggers Wife starting on Thursday, February, 15th, 2024

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Read more about AFCON 2023 Finals Watch Party starting on Sunday, February, 11th, 2024

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Read more about Film at The Africa Center - Mapantsula starting on Thursday, January, 25th, 2024

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Read more about Film @ The Africa Center- Lamb starting on Thursday, December, 14th, 2023

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Read more about The Peoples Summit - The Continent and the Diaspora Unite to Advance Africa starting on Friday, December, 9th, 2022

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Read more about The Poetics of Caribbean Architecture starting on Thursday, December, 7th, 2023

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Read more about Revelations on Mandelas Legacy- A Conversation with Justice Malala and Jonny Steinberg starting on Wednesday, December, 6th, 2023

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Read more about Creativity and Climate Literacy- The Power of Africas Young Creatives starting on Thursday, November, 30th, 2023

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Read more about Film @ The Africa Center- Tug of War Vuta n kuvute starting on Thursday, November, 30th, 2023

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Read more about Curating in Diaspora - Fitsum Shebeshe and Serubiri Moses in Conversation starting on Tuesday, November, 15th, 2022

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Read more about 2nd Annual Harlem African Animation Festival starting on Wednesday, November, 8th, 2023

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Read more about Film @ The Africa Center- ATLANTIQUE starting on Thursday, October, 26th, 2023

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Read more about Red Notes An Interactive Writing Workshop with Shameekia Shantel Johnson starting on Wednesday, October, 25th, 2023

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Read more about The Lumumba Plot- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold-War Assassination starting on Tuesday, October, 24th, 2023

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Read more about A Reading and Conversation with The African Poetry Book Fund starting on Thursday, October, 12th, 2023

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Read more about Film @ The Africa Center- FINYE starting on Thursday, September, 28th, 2023

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Read more about An Evening with Ben Okri - in conversation with Uzodinma Iweala starting on Tuesday, September, 26th, 2023

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Read more about Climate Positive Growth Investment and Trade Frameworks For An African Led World starting on Tuesday, September, 19th, 2023

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Read more about Policy in Context Africas Cost of Living Crisis starting on Wednesday, September, 6th, 2023

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Read more about Dance Party NYC starting on Wednesday, September, 6th, 2023

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Read more about Uptown Bounce starting on Thursday, July, 20th, 2023

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Read more about Writing Club starting on Monday, July, 17th, 2023

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Read more about First Fridays starting on Friday, July, 7th, 2023

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Read more about What is Happening in Uganda starting on Thursday, June, 29th, 2023

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Read more about Summer Youth Education Programs starting on Thursday, June, 1st, 2023

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Read more about A Tour of Harlem with Dr. Boukary Sawadogo starting on Saturday, May, 27th, 2023

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Read more about Africa Day Weekend Celebration starting on Saturday, May, 27th, 2023

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Read more about What is Happening in Sudan starting on Thursday, May, 18th, 2023

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Read more about African Modernisms - A Legacy of Connection starting on Wednesday, April, 26th, 2023

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Read more about Policy in Context - Africas Green Energy Dilemma starting on Tuesday, April, 25th, 2023

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Read more about New Boats starting on Thursday, April, 20th, 2023

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Read more about THE FORTUNE MEN - A Conversation with Nadifa Mohamed and Ladan Osman starting on Wednesday, April, 12th, 2023

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Read more about Policy in Context - Africans in Space starting on Thursday, March, 30th, 2023

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Read more about Beyond the Field - The Rise of African Football starting on Wednesday, March, 29th, 2023

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Read more about Policy in Context - Africas External Debt starting on Tuesday, February, 28th, 2023

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Read more about African Immigrants - 2023 and the Issues that Matter starting on Thursday, February, 16th, 2023

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Read more about Becoming Lit - The Limitless African Story with Bisi Adjapon and Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond starting on Wednesday, February, 8th, 2023

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Read more about SAINT OMER starting on Saturday, January, 14th, 2023

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Read more about Becoming - Art and Narrative starting on Wednesday, October, 19th, 2022

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Read more about Becoming in America starting on Friday, October, 14th, 2022

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Read more about African Climate & Energy in the Media starting on Thursday, October, 13th, 2022

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Read more about Advancing Africas New Public Health Order - The Role of Respectful and Action Oriented Partnerships starting on Sunday, September, 18th, 2022

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Read more about Issues Limits and Possibilities - Responses to African Students Displaced by the War in Ukraine starting on Tuesday, September, 13th, 2022

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Read more about Africans in Harlem - An Untold New York Story - Dr. Boukary Sawadogo in conversation with Dr. Dialika Sall starting on Wednesday, August, 3rd, 2022

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Read more about Black Women in Food Convos - The Business of Food starting on Tuesday, August, 2nd, 2022

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Read more about Decolonizing Global Climate Policy starting on Thursday, July, 21st, 2022

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Read more about Watermelon and Red Birds - Celebrating Juneteenth with Nicole Taylor and Osayi Endolyn starting on Thursday, July, 7th, 2022

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Read more about Bread and the Contours of Capitalism starting on Thursday, June, 23rd, 2022

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Read more about Museum Mile Festival starting on Tuesday, June, 14th, 2022

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Read more about A Stitch in Time - The Making of the Legacy Quilt starting on Tuesday, June, 7th, 2022

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Read more about Communal Hands - The Relationship Between Black Cooks Caterers and Farmers starting on Tuesday, May, 31st, 2022

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Read more about My America - Kwame Onwuachi in Conversation with Marcus Samuelsson starting on Wednesday, May, 25th, 2022

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Read more about Time and Place are No Longer Singular - Ezra Wube in conversation with Henone Girma starting on Wednesday, May, 24th, 2023

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Read more about Culinary Lyricism - Exploring the Intersection of Food and Music in Black Community and Culture starting on Wednesday, May, 17th, 2023

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Read more about James Hemings and the Birth of American Haute Cuisine starting on Wednesday, May, 3rd, 2023

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Read more about Forced Migration Food and Identity - What Does it Mean to be African and American starting on Wednesday, April, 27th, 2022

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Read more about A Conversation on Frederic Bruly Bouabre starting on Tuesday, April, 12th, 2022

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Read more about High on the Hog - African American food is American food starting on Tuesday, March, 22nd, 2022

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Read more about Food is Power - Feeding Movements of Black Resistance Then and Now starting on Tuesday, March, 15th, 2022

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Read more about What did the United Nations Climate Conference COP26 deliver or not for Africa And what comes next starting on Wednesday, December, 15th, 2021

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Read more about NYC African Heritage Month Celebration at The Africa Center starting on Thursday, September, 9th, 2021

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Read more about 2nd Annual Juneteenth Jubilee - Celebrating Black Trans Joy as Liberation starting on Saturday, June, 19th, 2021

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Read more about HomeIsHere starting on Saturday, June, 19th, 2021

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Read more about Home Is Series 2 - Home Is Where Music Is starting on Tuesday, June, 8th, 2021

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Read more about Home Is Series 1 - Home Is Where Community Is starting on Tuesday, May, 25th, 2021

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Read more about African Immigrants in NYC - 2021 and Issues that Matter starting on Thursday, January, 28th, 2021

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Read more about African Immigrants and Their American Children - A Discussion on Race and Identity starting on Saturday, December, 5th, 2020

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Read more about Represent Represent- Live with Lupita Nyong o starting on Monday, May, 25th, 2020

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Read more about NO BAN- A Community Call to Action starting on Thursday, February, 20th, 2020

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Read more about Salon Africana at The Africa Center starting on Saturday, February, 15th, 2020

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Read more about BLACK BODIES WHITE SPACES - THE SPORTS EDITION starting on Thursday, December, 12th, 2019

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Read more about Africans Count! A Presentation and job recruitment by the U.S. Census Bureau starting on Monday, December, 9th, 2019

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Read more about Cornel West Matters - Book Talk with Mahamadou Lamine Sagna and Cornel West starting on Saturday, November, 9th, 2019

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Read more about Podcasting While African starting on Friday, November, 1st, 2019

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Read more about Story Time with Lupita Nyong o starting on Sunday, October, 20th, 2019

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Read more about Drawing Class with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi starting on Saturday, October, 12th, 2019

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Read more about The Shadow King - Book Talk with Maaza Mengiste and Uzodinma Iweala starting on Wednesday, October, 2nd, 2019

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Read more about The Future Africa Forum starting on Monday, September, 23rd, 2019

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Read more about Story Time with Roda Ahmed starting on Saturday, September, 14th, 2019

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Read more about NYC Call to Action - IMBIZO starting on Thursday, September, 12th, 2019

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Read more about Traditional West African Glass Painting Workshops at Summer Streets starting on Saturday, August, 10th, 2019

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Read more about Summer Reading Series curated by One Moore Book starting on Friday, August, 2nd, 2019

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Read more about Dialogues - A Preview of The View From Here starting on Wednesday, July, 17th, 2019

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Read more about Book Launch - Travelers by Helon Habila starting on Wednesday, June, 19th, 2019

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Read more about Museum Mile Festival at The Africa Center starting on Tuesday, June, 11th, 2019

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Read more about The Africa Center Portal starting on Wednesday, February, 20th, 2019

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Read more about Museum Mile Festival starting on Tuesday, June, 13th, 2023

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