The Education of Auma Obama
New York African Film Festival 2012
April 11 - 17, 2012
Filmmaker in person!
A captivating and intimate portrait of Barack Obama’s older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity in her native Kenya.
Filmmaker in person!
The Education of Auma Obama is a captivating and intimate portrait of U.S. president Barack Obama’s older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity in her native Kenya. Nigerian-born director Branwen Okpako’s film also documents a generation of politically and socially engaged Africans whose aspirations are informed by their parents’s experiences, and whose ambition to forge a better future for their communities starts from the ground up.
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