Marissa Moorman

Dec 18, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Katie Jane Fernelius |Danny Hoffman |Marissa Moorman

It is often said that people who do not know where they are coming from, do not know where they are headed. The element of truth in this aphorism, as trite it may be, makes the decline of historical interest among Nigerians, especially the youth population, all the more concerning. In some ways, forgetting history has been a matter of state policy.

Nov 30, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Gerald Horne |Noah Tsika |Marissa Moorman

For Ronald Reagan and a great many Americans, the arrival of Cuban troops in Angola in 1975 epitomized the poisoned fruit of détente. The way they saw it, the Soviets had dared for the first time to engage in a massive military intervention in Africa; they had pushed their Cuban proxies forward; and they had found this act of naked aggression both painless and profitable. President Ford and Kissinger had been unable to devise an effective response.

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.