Unite travels across America to showcase new documentary films

We are thrilled to announce the release of two new short documentary films, each created by Tanzanian filmmakers, featuring the lives of two Unite Scholars: Zainabu Seiph and Elisha George John. The films are being released privately through a series of events in communities across the United States. Please see our calendar below.

If you are interested in attending an event and/or hosting an event/film screening (anywhere in the country), please email anne@uniteafricafoundation.org. Our goal is to spread the word as far and wide as possible to grow our base of supporters and ensure we can meet the needs of talented youth and women in need across Tanzania, East Africa, and beyond for years to come.

UNITE TALKS & FILM SCREENINGS 2025

• Little Compton, RI (February 23rd, St. Andrews by the Sea, 11:15 AM)

• New York City (March 11th, Church of Heavenly Rest, 5:30 PM)

• Vero Beach, FL (Rio Mar, April 11th)

• Freemont, CA (April 27th)

• Carlsbad, CA (May 4th)

• Providence, RI (May 6th, The Wheeler School, 1:30 PM)

• St. Louis, MO (May 8th)

• Providence, RI (May 14th, The Hope Club, 5:30 PM)

• Washington, DC (May 15th)

• Houston, TX (TBD)

• Boston (TBD)

• Palm Beach, FL (TBD)

• Westerly, RI (The Westerly Theater, Summer 2025)

• Westport, CT (The Westport Playhouse Theater, September 2025)

• Southport, NC (November 9th, St Peter Lutheran Church)

Filmmaker Hans Chalrz filming Unite Scholar Zainabu Seiph in her home village of Kigunga, Tanzania, along the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Click HERE and HERE for outtake clips from Kigunga.

Zainabu Seiph (front left wearing glasses) and her family in Kigunga village. Zainabu is now a 4th-year medical student at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania. Click HERE for 1-minute of scenes from Kigunga.

Scene from a film about Elisha George John, a Unite Scholar who lost his sight as a toddler. Elisha (second from right) is with his father (a pastor), grandmother, mother, and sister outside their family home. Click HERE, HERE and HERE to watch mini-clips from the film.

Elisha is now at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania studying journalism and mass communications. Click HERE to see Elisha share how disabilities do not define him.

Elisha’s father holds a picture of Elisha as a toddler before his eyes were removed. Click HERE to see him talk about this tragedy.

Note: The documentary about Elisha George John (“Nurturing Unrecognized Potential: Unite the World with Africa Foundation”) was filmed, directed, and edited by a team from AFRISOS (The African School of Storytelling) includingMichael Ndosi and Angela Mukajanga, writer Megan Brownrigg in Arusha, Tanzania, and produced by Doug Crisman, VGI, and Unite. The film about Zainabu Seiph (“A Candle in the Dark”) was filmed, directed, and edited by Unite’s photographer and filmmaker Richard Munisi, Tanzanian filmmaker/storyteller Hans Charlz, and Peter Mnzava and produced by Unite the World with Africa Foundation.

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