Last week, I attended a screening of Ava DuVernay’s Selma about Martin Luther King, Jr. and ...
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Elizabeth at Loreto
My late mother Elizabeth (c. 1970), then a schoolteacher at the Loreto School for ...
Elizabeth's Daughter
Elizabeth’s journal: Part I
August 8, 2002: Auntie Pat called and was going to visit, but did not ...
Film
My FESPACO Diary: A Filmmaker’s Journey to Africa’s Oscars
After an October 2014 coup toppled the 27-year presidency of Blaise Compaoré, most thought ...
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The Un(der)employed Artist: How can LinkedIn work better for creatives?
In September 2015, I graduated with my MFA in film from NYU/Tisch School of ...
Reviews
Abosede George
Consultant, NAACP Legal Defense FundIn Essien’s fictional character [Aissatou Bah], we find a figure that may or may not be an economic migrant, a rape survivor, a project and/or product of neoliberal and/or humanitarian regimes, or some combination of any of the above.
Diana Eromosele
The RootAissa’s Story brilliantly shows that these situations are never cut-and-dried, especially when the judicial system and public opinion can be swayed by money, and stereotypes can suffocate and blur the truth.
Student
Baruch CollegeWhen I first read about the DSK case, I had not imagined the hotel worker as a victim...I think it was more the dynamic with her daughter that let me see Aissa’s character as a person who had to come home to her family and fight not only her own battle, but theirs as well.
Claire Diao
Film Critic and Author, Double VagueAissa's Story is a brilliant depiction of a modern interpretation of the David and Goliath story, where the richest remains the winner, but the poorer pursues their fight for dignity.