Event

The Center for Africana Studies presents
A Film Screening and Discussion

South African filmmaker Kurt Orderson retraces the lost history of his great-grandfather, Joseph Orderson. He soon discovers that his great-grandfather did not come directly from West Africa as the family commonly believed, but rather from Barbados, as a descendant of emancipated slaves Who had been brought to the island to Work in the sugar cane plantations.

He also unearths his ancestor’s activist past: Joseph Orderson was part of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, founded by the great Marcus Garvey, father of contemporary Black Nationalism and Pan Africanism.

Q&A with Director Kurt Orderson following the screening, moderated by Dr. Deborah A. Thomas

See film trailer: http://www.bfmmedia.com/festival/files/The%2OProdigal%20Son%20Promo.mp4

RSVP to the Center for Africana Studies at
africana @sas.upenn.edu or
215-898-4965

Refreshments Will be served