John Bella

Jul 13, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Marissa Moorman |Mariana Fonseca |John Bella |Bruno O. Veras

Working with the narrator’s language. When I set myself the challenge to use an analysis of Angola-China—those economic relations—I wanted it to touch relations between folklore too, in order to mask the other part … so it wouldn’t be such a directly economic story. When I wrote the screenplay it was Domingas [one of the main characters] who was the narrator of the film. She would narrate the story and, at a certain point, go to the Chinese shop to buy a product available there.

Jul 3, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Mariana Fonseca |John Bella |Bruno O. Veras |William Shoki

My book, Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology, will be released in August 2023 by Baylor University Press. This brief piece describes the sources that inspired and shaped the book. The book is based on Léopold Sédar Senghor’s poetry collection called Black Hosts (Hosties Noires), which portrays the suffering of Black people as offering global redemption and reconciliation.