Pierre Niyongira is already making waves in the film industry; a film graduate from UWE, Pierre is now a freelance filmmaker, creating films around the world. His works shine a light on current affairs as well as the past, intertwining them in order to create important discussions.
Read MoreAs someone who was born and raised in Zimbabwe, surrounded by buzzing cultures and colours, vibrant fabrics and music and dynamic artwork and artists, the lack of recognition and accessible representation of the vast creative achievements rooted in the continent, have often delivered much personal frustration.
Read MoreAnd so it was with the Bristol ‘Riot’ that took place on the 2nd April 1980 in the area of St. Pauls. I’ve placed ‘Riot’ in inverted commas because if you ask the African-Caribbean residents who were involved, they’d probably describe what happened as an ‘uprising’. According to Jagun Akinshegun, who was a teenage at the time, who said about what happened: “[a riot’ might do if it was a bar brawl or football hooliganism but it certainly does not apply to this situation.”
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