Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds explores Yoruba and Nigerian culture, its global impact on Afro-Brazilian history and culture, and the profound concept of reconnecting with one’s roots. This standalone film holds the potential for 2-3 additional episodes, chronicling Black excellence through the lens of Nigeria’s Professor Wole Soyinka, the first Black Nobel Laureate in Literature, alongside the voices of renowned Afrobeat and Afro-Brazilian global artists. Through their music, writing the narrative leads audiences to a powerful moment of rediscovering one’s homeland. Afrobeats, a global phenomenon, intersects beautifully with Afro-Brazilian culture, embraced daily by Brazil’s 120 million Afro-descendants. This film intends to all members of the Afro Diasporas in North, South, Central Americas, Caribbean and Europe and more importantly retell our stories to young Africans who are being left behind with modern technologies. We are planning an iconic screening at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research on February 24, 2025, to honor Prof. Soyinka on his 90th birthday which happened last July, and he has graciously confirmed his attendance. Henry Luis Gates will be the MC. This will be the first official private screening of Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds in the US prior to global festival submissions.
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