Brief Tender Light

  Directed by: Arthur Musah Released: 2024 (educational) Year of Production: 2023 Running Time: 93 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Race Power and Privilege, Education Studies PBS Lesson Plan for Grades 9-12                As undergraduate students at America’s premier technological university, a group of ambitious African students come of age, learning lessons in and beyond the classroom. They embarked on their MIT education with individual ambitions –  to run a civil engineering company and be a shining example for girls in Tanzania; to secure a better life for family in northern Nigeria; to contribute to postgenocide reconstruction in Rwanda; to enter into politics and the fight for democracy in Zimbabwe. Their missions are distinct, but fueled by a common goal: to become agents of positive change back home. Even as their dreams are anchored in the societies they have left, their daily realities are defined by America – by th