Film Screening: Wahenga (The Ancestors) 2018

As part of our exhibition Call & Response: Songbooks to Power the Movement, we will be celebrating liberation music from the international left. Join us for a screening of the documentary Wahenga (The Ancestors) by dir. Amil Shivji and Rebecca Mzengi Corey with a talkback with Corey after the film.
John Kitime, an energetic musician in his 60s, puts together a band to revive the dying sound of Tanzanian Zilipendwa, music from the early independence era. Weaving memories of the past and dreams for the future, John and his bandmates revisit the era of gleaming horns and packed dance halls as they struggle to keep the music alive in a passionate argument for “the ones that were loved”. Will they succeed?