Tuesday, April 6, 5.30-7:30 p.m. Opening Night Reception
Featuring Lemi Ghariokwu, a Nigerian artist and designer renowned for providing many of the original cover images for the recordings of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. His work involves a variety of styles, often using vibrant colors and individuated typefaces of his own design. Lemi has designed more than 2,000 album covers, including covers for Bob Marley, E. T. Mensah, Gilles Peterson and Antibalas. Many of Lemi’s cover images echo and sometimes comment on the work and politics of the recordings that they accompany, serving a consciously integrated metatextual function.

Lemi’s approach to his work with Kuti involved listening to and digesting the music and then expressing his reaction in his paintings, design and comments. Lemi’s work has attracted much attention in the West and is the subject of various retrospective exhibitions. His painting Anoda Sistem, created in 2002, is in the permanent collection of the Museum ofModern Art.

7:30 Screening
Sex, Okra & Salted Butter (81 mins)

9:30 Screening
Movement Revolution Africa 

Wednesday April 7
5:30 Screening
Bronx Princess (29 mins)
Coming of Age (12 mins)
Panel Discussion: Being African in Maine: Youth in Transition

7:30 Screening
This is Nollywood (56 mins)
Q&A with Director Francho Sacchi

9:30 Screening
From A Whisper

Thursday April 8
5:30 Screening
The Fighting Spirit 

7:30 Screening
Wrestling Grounds (105 mins)

9:30 Screening
Movement Revolution Africa

Friday, April 9
5:30 Screening
Rwanda: Betond the Deadly Pit

7:30 Screening
Living The Hiplife�
Q&A with Prodicer Rob Bakari & Pios Ali

9:30 Screening
The Importance of Being Elegant

Saturday, April 10
1:00 Screening
Nora (35 mins)
Scars of My Days
Q&A with Director Gilbert Ndahayo

3:00 Screening
In My Genes (78 mins)
Q&A with Director Lupita Nyong’o

5:30 Screening
Al Hadji and His Wives
Panel Discussion: Mainers Working in Africa

7:30 Screening
Sex, Okra & Salted Butter (81 mins)

9:00 Closing Party with Rich Medina & Lemi Ghariokwu at the Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St Portland, ME 04101 – (207) 879-8988.