Film Number |
7500 |
Title |
A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN CULTURE: CHALLENGING NEO-COLONIALISM, AFTERNOON SESSION |
Producer |
WFA |
Date |
1983 |
Gauge |
U-matic LB |
Colour |
colour |
Sound |
sound |
Running Time |
62 mins 54 secs |
Description |
The sixth session of a 10 week Celebration of African Culture, held at WFA Media and Cultural Centre in Manchester between February and May 1983. Gus John introduces the afternoon session - Ngugi Wa Thiongo speaking about 'cultural resistance to neo-colonialism', Paul Okujie's 'Strategies in the resistance to neo-colonialism' and a screening of Osman Sembene's film 'Emitai'. Ngugi has been in Britain since June 1982 after detention in Kenya as a political prisoner and is now instrumental in the campaign to release other political prisoners. Speaks about importance of Osman Sembene. His essential understanding of paradox of imperialism - prosperity of colonisers based on other's enslavement. A political barbarism matched by cultural barbarism and mental amputation of subjected peoples. Also talks about cultures of resistance, songs, theatre, film and examples of people's theatre in Kenya and suppression by post-independence Kenyan government. How colonisers used pre-colonial backward forces to take up national flag at independence - collaborators who perceived the world through same images implanted in them during colonial era. Gus talks about Sembene and after film screening further contributions from Ngugi about the film, and then contributions from the floor. |
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