www.500yearslater.com

Dir: Owen ‘Alik Shahadah

Crime, drugs, HIV/Aids, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health and under development plagues people of African decent globally – Why? 500 Years Later from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism Africans are still struggling for basic freedom. Why?

Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic, retrospective voice, told from the African vantage point of whom history has sought to silence by examining the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland.

Film stars Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Desmond Tutu Maulana Karenga, Paul Robeson Jr and Dr. Hakim Adi.

Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Director.

Time: 4pm, 12TH OF JUNE

Duration: 108min, 2005/ UK/USA

Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Mall (just off Trafalgar Square).

By Tube: Charing Cross or Piccadilly Circus