Safiya Songhai
Safiya Songhai, is an American Film Director, University Professor, Television Anchor/Reporter and beauty queen. Biography Family Songhai was born in Philadelphia to Dwight Lamont Hendricks and Tamara Pierce. Songhai's parents met at the Philadelphia International Film Festival and Market, a festival where Songhai would later win her first film award. Her mother came from a prominent Philadelphia family and was the co-creator and host for WPVI's show Visions, and later worked at various stations as a camera woman and a news editor for Frontline. Songhai is the granddaughter of renowned dermatologist Dr. Harold E. Pierce, great-niece of retired federal judge Lawrence W. Pierce, niece of internationally acclaimed artist Barkley L. Hendricks, and cousin of actress model and sportscaster Jayne Kennedy. Songhai is an African-American descendant of the 300 year old Pierce, Murry, Cuff, Gould settlement located in Gouldtown, New Jersey and Bridgeton, New Jersey. She is a descendant of the Bamileke of Cameroon and derives from Haitian, and Bajan immigrants. Songhai is also a descendant of the Lenape and Iroquois native people of the Delaware Valley. Education After the age of 7, Songhai was raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and graduated from Boston Latin School. Songhai excelled at Public Declamation, Student