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AfroPoP: Mandisa 4mins 20secs

Produced by Jacqueline Hernandez

Mandisa was produced as part of the National Black Programming Consortium's New Media Institute: Africa project when it traveled to Durban South Africa in 2008. Working with the local arts center, Ekhaya Multi Arts Center, in the township of Kwa Mashu, students were tasked with capturing interesting short documentary stories about South Africa. Mandisa tells the story of a young woman who works a the arts center and also trains as an artist/poet. It chronicles her determination to get her younger sister a better life, and documents the artistic youth environment that fuels her creativity in Kwa Mashu.

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