Nice Black Aussies

Incuriosity Complex
  • 5.0 (4)
  • DOCUMENTARY

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.

Episodes

  1. 28/06/2024

    Chapter VIII: Are the Kids Gonna be Alright?

    Tradition suggests that the older you get the wiser you become. Of what use, then, is it to listen to the kids? Especially when it comes to steering kids through their shattered dreams. Dreams shattered by society.

    1hr 1min

  2. 03/05/2024

    Chapter VII: Hips Don't Lie

    We continue with examining the steady spread of Rumba in Australia; partly because of the dancing freedom it hypnotises listeners into.

    42 min

  3. 31/03/2024

    Chapter VI: Brave New Afro-pop

    Aboard the trans-Atlantic Slave ships from Africa, Rumba music was a stowaway. At their final destinations, the African traditional music absorbed Caribbean and Spanish culture. In the 1930s Rumba then found its way back to its place of birth, through the absorption and reinterpretation of Cuban Records in Congo. The music is still on the move across Africa, and Europe. Now Australia asks for some.

    49 min

  4. 10/03/2024

    Chapter V: No Longer at Ease

    In this part 2, on African cuisine, owner of a the popular street food joint, juggles to absorb the popularity of his inventive menu, and the booming interest it generates

    37 min

  5. 12/02/2024

    Chapter IV: Dinner with the Homesick Africans

    We trace the path taken by one African Australian to construct homemade recipes in a country that refuses importation of exotic ingredients. Even though the general public loves the food, officials erect obstacles to stop the African from sharing his cuisines.

    44 min

  6. 05/01/2024

    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.

    40 min

  7. 08/12/2023

    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.

    44 min

  8. 24/11/2023

    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.

    1hr 2min
  9. Prologue: Judge a book by its cover

    09/11/2023

    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.

    30 min

  10. SEASON 1 TRAILER

    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.

    3 min

Trailer

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
4 Ratings

About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Incuriosity Complex
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Incuriosity Complex 2023
  • Show Website
    Nice Black Aussies