Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds + Q&A

Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds is screening at Easton Community Centre on Sunday 22 November, as part of Afrika Eye 2026. It's not just the film itself, either: there's an introduction before it starts and a Q&A afterwards, so you'll get to hear more about the making of it than you would at a standard cinema run.

Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds is a documentary that journeys across Yoruba culture and the global African diaspora, told through story, music, memory and return. It features Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, so it's a film with a heavy literary weight behind it. The way it's described — story, music, memory and return — suggests it's less of a straightforward talking-heads piece and more of a travelogue through a culture and its scattered descendants.

The screening is part of Afrika Eye, which is an annual film and arts festival that's been running in Bristol since 2005. It's described as the biggest celebration of African film in the south west, and its programme usually spreads across several Bristol venues. The festival mixes feature films, shorts and documentaries by filmmakers from or with roots in Africa, and pairs them with panel discussions, director Q&As and chats with academic, cinema and subject experts. This particular session fits that pattern, with the film followed by a Q&A.

So, on the night, you'll get the introduction, the screening of Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds, and then the Q&A to follow. It's at Easton Community Centre on Sunday 22 November, as part of the wider Afrika Eye 2026 festival.