Hollywood Africans
by Barbara Angopa and Amaka Ugwunkwo
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Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips
About this podcast
Hosted by award-winning journalist Barbara Angopa and filmmaker Amaka Ugwunkwo, Hollywood Africans reframes the lives of misunderstood characters in the movies.
Silenced, underestimated, objectified, infantilised and vilified Africans on film get their podcast remake.
Barbara and Amaka weave in their personal experience, current affairs and social context to reimagine motives and devise alternative plots.
Episodes
- Captain Phillips · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Somali pirates steal the show in the 2013 film Captain Phillips. It tells the true life story of the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama off the coast off…
- Tarzan the Ape Man - Part 1 · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 4Send a text The 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man tells the story of European explorers on an expedition to find a fabled elephant graveyard to make billions selling the ivory. Along…
- Tarzan the Ape Man - Part 2 · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 5Send a text Why doesn't Tarzan have any African friends, despite being brought up by an ape family somewhere in Africa? Explore this intriguing question and more on the…
- The Last King of Scotland - Part 1 · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 8Send a text Mercurial and Malignant or misunderstood? During a medical mission to Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of…
- The Last King of Scotland - Part 2 · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 9Send a text Mercurial and Malignant or misunderstood? During a medical mission to Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of…
- Coming to America - Part 1 · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 10Send a text Pretty much everything, from culture shock to diaspora drama, Prince Akeem's journey to find love tested more than just his royal patience—it put an entire…
- Coming to America - Part 2 · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 11Send a text Before Wakanda, Zamunda was the go to movie for fictional African kingdoms. But does the comedy Coming to America throw Zamundan women under the bus? Welcome to…
- Out of Africa - Part 1 · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 6Send a text Out of Africa’s doomed romance, set against the backdrop of stunning Kenyan landscapes, was among the top box office draws in 1985. It tells the story of a Danish…
- Out of Africa - Part 2 · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 7Send a text Out of Africa’s doomed romance, set against the backdrop of stunning Kenyan landscapes, was among the top box office draws in 1985. It tells the story of a Danish…
- Beasts of No Nation - Part 1 · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 2Send a text Beast of No Nations tells the story of Agu, a young boy captured by a West African rebel army and forced to fight on the frontline. The sadistic warlord commanding…
- Beasts of No Nation - Part 2 · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 3Send a text Beast of No Nations tells the story of Agu, a young boy captured by a West African rebel army and forced to fight on the frontline. The sadistic warlord commanding…
- No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 12Send a text If legendary detective Miss Marple was set in Africa….she’d turn out something like Precious Ramotswe in beautiful and tranquil Botswana. Despite being underestimated…
