Join the Department of Africana Studies as it marks 50 years of scholarship and service to Africa and the Diaspora by attending an Africana Studies Film Festival! Each film screening will feature discussion and commentary from scholars and filmmakers whose work focuses on the experiences Africans living in today’s Europe, and how their presence their shapes their identity, and the social, economic and political realities of their adoptive countries.  

"No U-Turn"

"No U-Turn" (Nigeria / France / South Africa) was nominated together with 17 other films for the Berlinale Documentary Award. In his film, Ike Nnaebue retraces a journey he made 27 years ago, when he left Nigeria as a young man to try and reach Europe by road. Along the way, he meets those who are taking the same trip today to search for a better life and, through conversations with them, tries to understand the aspirations of young people in West Africa. With images of people lured into slavery and bondage along the routes in North Africa all over social media and the internet, most young people are aware of the dangers of traveling undocumented by road. Yet more and more women are joining the ranks of those who risk this journey.