Nice Black Aussies
Nice Black Aussies
Incuriosity Complex
For a decade, Africans in Melbourne, Australia for a weekend in November, gather to celebrate and showcase their cultural diversity. But there's a tension between them wanting to be seen, and what the wider white Australia would rather the Africans present themselves as. A multi-series narrative reveals the push and pull: from 'hair touching' to beloved African rhythms.
Chapter III: Give the drummer some
What's behind the bulging interest in African drumming amongst Australian women. I attend a class to find out; and also talk to An Australian who triumphed against the clutches of malaria in West Africa, just to mount what has become a decades-old passion as a Master Drummer.
Jan 5, 2024
40 min
Chapter II: Go back to wherever you came from
At the Festival watching a film on police brutality on Blacks causes us to reflect on otherness and its trauma.
Dec 8, 2023
43 min
Chapter I:  Good Hand-balling
In this episode we inquire how multiculturalism is tracking, 10 years since the launch of the African Festival in Melbourne. But then the question becomes a hot-potato.
Nov 24, 2023
1 hr 1 min
Prologue: Judge a book by its cover
Is 10 minutes enough time for you to paint a first impression, after hearing a person speak?In this episode, Chris invites his guest, Poni, a University-Lecturer for a chat, after he observes her speaking at a festival and jotting down his observations; he believes they are an accurate portrait of Poni.
Nov 9, 2023
29 min
Nice Black Aussies - Trailer
White Australians are happy that Africans have chosen the continent as their home. But, they only want the 'nice ones'. Implying that wherever they go, their welcomeness is predetermined, by what White Aussies outline as: Nice Black Aussies. An eight-part series.
Nov 2, 2023
3 min