Season 12
5 episodes · 2020
1My Friend Fela and Birth of Afrobeat
"My Friend Fela" offers a new perspective on Nigerian musician Fela Kuti by biographer Carlos Moore; the animated short "Birth of Afrobeat" details how Nigerian drummer Tony and his partner Fela Kuti created the Afrobeat genre.
2Amina
An African immigrant woman living in Istanbul faces cultural challenges as she pursues her dreams.
3Daddy and the Warlord
A daughter's quest to understand her father's collaboration with three corrupt government leaders and war criminal Charles Taylor.
4Gilda Brasileiro: Against Oblivion
A woman fights to expose the history of an illegal 19th century slave-trading post in the Brazilian rainforest.
5Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela and Spit on the Broom
A black family, the Anti-Apartheid Movement and a quest to reconcile a father and son; The United Order of Tents.