Monday April 3, 2017: Film producer Donna C. Roberts

English Promo from Donna Carole Roberts on Vimeo.


Donna C. Roberts, producer and director of the film, Yemanja: Wisdom From the African Heart of Brazil, which opens the Oakland International Film Festival on Tuesday night. A film about a little known history of Africa in the Americas. A story of the Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition of Candomblé, with a distinctly ecological worldview. Told through the voices of women leaders, we learn of Candomblé’s social struggles and triumphs in this largest former slave port in the Americas.

Yemanja is narrated by Alice Walker.

Listen now or Get MP3. 9:11 min

Film premieres:

Wednesday, April 5th at Holy Names University, 7:30 PM.

3500 Mountain Boulevard

Oakland, CA 94619

Click here to listen to entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:

Author Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Bangladeshi Constitutional Lawyer Sara Hossein