History Detective Tufuku Zuberi on African Independence
ListenPBS History Detective and University of Pennsylvania sociologist, TUKUFU ZUBERI comes in to discuss his new documentary, African Independence, a film examining the complexities of the separate countries winning independence from European colonization. He has also curated two exhibitions currently showing in Philadelphia: Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster at the Penn Museum, and Tides of Freedom: African Presence on the Delaware River at the Independence Seaport Museum.
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