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Shirikiana AINA | USA, Ghana | 2017 | doc | color | DCP | 77′ | English | n.s.
Robert Lee was one of the black Americans who heeded Kwame Nkrumah’s call to return home. Not only to help build up Ghana, the first African state to liberate itself, but also to stimulate the liberation of the whole continent. A documentary that uses witnesses’ testimony to present the many historical threads of Pan-Africanism.
In 1957, Ghana was the first African country to become independent of its colonial rulers, in this case the British. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of what in 1960 became the Republic of Ghana, called on Africans from all over the world to come to Ghana to help build the new nation. The most important aim was to “undo the damage caused by the slave trade” as filmmaker Shirikiana Aina expressed it in her documentary Footprints of Pan Africanism. Several people speak in Aina’s film about the reconstruction of Ghana and Nkrumah, who was deposed in 1966, offering room for their frequently gripping personal stories. These are often marked by racism, the emerging civil rights movement and what it’s like to be black and live elsewhere. For many, returning to Africa was like going home.
Aina’s documentary was produced by her husband, the director Haile Gerima (Teza, 2009).
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 13 April 2018
Time: 18:00
Duration: 1:05
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 14 April 2018
Time: 10:45
Duration: 1:05
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 15 April 2018
Time: 18:30
Duration: 1:05
Year in
Festival
2018
Director
Shirikiana AINA
Camera
Rick Butler
Country
USA
Ghana
Editor
Shirikiana Aina
Haile Gerima
Language
English
Length
77′
Music
Lafayette Gilchrist
Eric Kennedy
David White
Producer
Production Company
Negod Gwad Production
Sales
Mypheduh Films
Scenario
Shirikiana Aina
Sound Design
Year of Production
2017