![]() ![]() Raised in an Anglo-Ghanaian family in the environs of Kumasi, Appiah's extended kin stretched from the West Country of England to the court of Asante and, over time, from the United States to Nigeria, to Norway, and to Botswana. In his most recent work, which draws upon writings and experience over a number of years, Anthony Appiah takes his readers on a similar journey through an intellectual autobiography that begins with reflecting on Africa's contemporary culture and closes with the conflicted burial of his father. She challenges us by raising questions whether we belong in this privileged space, and by showing us how, when one enters this space, all kinds of issues-identity, values, private histories, authority-open up. In drawing us through conflicted familial and emotional issues surrounding the broken and reconstituted relations with her daughter, Billops (who made the film with her husband James Hatch) has us traveling where few films take their audiences. In her recent film Finding Christa, Camille Billops draws her audience into a rich, expressive, and intimate space as she explores the rediscovering of a daughter given up, at four years old, for adoption in 1961. Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, London: Methuen, 1992 New York: Oxford University Press, 366pp. ![]()
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