The second time I saw My Father’s Shadow, I texted
@akinoladaviesjr to say that I had dissolved into tears, again. Akin texted back “We all need to cry together more.”
I loved that, so much.
That energy animated the events and moments of celebration I co-created in London, Houston and New York. I wanted to take this story and the storytellers into beloved community, to create beautifully safe and loving spaces for engaging with the film’s themes- the legacy of our fathers, the cost of parenting in capitalism’s manufactured precarity, grief, the permeability of childhood memory,loving those who aren’t meant to survive, indigenous spirituality, the bittersweet of loving and fighting for the promise of a country -so many things!
The tour epitomized the power of solidarity and collectivity-Africa No Filter supported it with a grant, my brother
@kojogh1 said yes to helping fund my shenanigans,
@the_futureplate and
@floralevolution brought the beauty,
@evaomaghomi and Charlie Dorfman made hosting at the
@everymancinema possible, Brother
@chukaejorh and Blink Studios set it out in Houston,
@larryosseimensah and
@artnoirco , the Black Arts Council at the
@themuseumofmodernart partnered to host, and Sis
@busayoworld and Mofe Akinyanmi asked the most beautifully incisive questions.
Please see this beautiful film. Take your friends, your family, your village people, smuggle in some chin-chin and dodo (egwusi is doing too much, fam-haba!), in beloved community.
Thank you to
@akinoladaviesjr ,
@kingxdavies ,
@funmbi_o all of
@wearefatherland for holding us in your loving gaze,
@ama.ampadu for your incredible advocacy in bringing this film to us, to
@artistgirlmia for being the realest one, to
@yvonneorji for introducing me to Akin that beautiful summer afternoon and to all for letting me be a small part of this beautiful struggle.
….for Nigeria, the Congo, Sudan, the Bay-Palestine WILL be free.
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@ejatushaw
📷 Millie Turner
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@rontimehin
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@zap_2 
