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Library:
In this page, we would often recommend you books, movies or any educative
program/report related to African community’s issues.
Good
movies to watch:
-Amistad: A
trial about the liberation of some slaves.
-Cry freedom: A great movie
about apartheid in South Africa giving viewers a glimpse of the brilliant
martyr Steve Biko and the struggle of children of Soweto protesting against
racial rules at school.
-Fratricide in Burkina
Faso, Thomas Sankara and France/Africa: A significant documentary
film about the former Burkinabe president who challenged the colonial
order and system in Africa and beyond. It sums up the rise to power, the
life and the savage assassination of the intrepid combatant for human
rights.
-Hotel Rwanda: Shows the true story
of the hotel manager P. Rusesabagina, who dared to open the doors of his
hotel to Tutsi and moderate Hutu during the genocide of 1994.
-In My Country: About an investigation of human
rights abuses and atrocities committed during the apartheid regime in
South-Africa.
-Lumumba: This Movie depicts the rise and murder
of Patrice Lumumba, the leader not easy to manipulate of newly independent
Congo.
-Malcom X: About the life, rise and assassination of
a great African American leader Malcom X who promoted Black Nationalism
and a spiritual return of the Diaspora to Africa.
-Mobutu, King of Zaire: An interesting report
about the glory and tragedy of the former President of Zaire, Mobutu.
-Roots: One of the best African movies
about slavery. An African, Kunta Kinté, sold To the USA in 1767, rejects
his slave name, Toby. His descendants continue his heroic resistance with
determination.
-Sarafina: Whoopi Goldberg is the inspiring
teacher that prods young minds to the rejection of apartheid's racial
laws.
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