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We continue the tribute, "Translating Ngugi: From Here to There, From Then to Now," with the avant-premiere of Ndjimbu (Democratic Republic of Congo, 2025) and Q&A with the pathbreaking filmmaker Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, who is a memory keeper and storyteller with the Elephant kinship spirit and founder of Yole! Africa, a center for arts education in Goma. Katondolo's multigenre artistic works are acclaimed for their African futuristic style, which engages historical content to address contemporary sociopolitical and cultural issues.
Conceived as a descent into the physical, sonic and spiritual depths of the Congo cobalt artisanal mines, Ndjimu transforms cinematic space into ritual experience.
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Film & Media Studies, the Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change and the UC Irvine Dean of Humanities.