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From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.
Original Release
01/17/2014
US Release
01/17/2014
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Lauryn Hill | Narrator in English version / Narrator (voice) |
| Kati Outinen | Narrator in Finnish version |
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Self - professor, Columbia University |
| Gaetano Pagano | Self - reporter / Self - Reporter (voice) (archive footage) |
| Tonderai Makoni | Self - PhD / Self - PhD (archive footage) |
| Timothy | Self - white Rhodesian racist's servant |
| Robert Mugabe | Self - Zimbabwe African National Union / Self - ZANU (archive footage) |
| Robert Jackson | Self - Liberian labour activist |
| Olle Wijkström | Self - executive director, Liberian-American-Swedish Minerals Company / Self - CEO Lamco (archive footage) |
| William Tubman | Self - president of Liberia / Self - President of Liberia (archive footage) |
Directors
Writers
Frantz Fanon, Göran Hugo Olsson
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Lauryn Hill | Narrator in English version / Narrator (voice) |
| Kati Outinen | Narrator in Finnish version |
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Self - professor, Columbia University |
| Gaetano Pagano | Self - reporter / Self - Reporter (voice) (archive footage) |
| Tonderai Makoni | Self - PhD / Self - PhD (archive footage) |
| Timothy | Self - white Rhodesian racist's servant |
| Robert Mugabe | Self - Zimbabwe African National Union / Self - ZANU (archive footage) |
| Robert Jackson | Self - Liberian labour activist |
| Olle Wijkström | Self - executive director, Liberian-American-Swedish Minerals Company / Self - CEO Lamco (archive footage) |
| William Tubman | Self - president of Liberia / Self - President of Liberia (archive footage) |
| Sören Lagergren | Self - Liberian-American-Swedish Minerals Company |
| Simão Elias | Self - The Mozambique Liberation Front |
| António de Spínola | Self - military governor of Portuguese Guinea |
| Amilcar Cabral | Self - founder of Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde / Self - Leader of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau (archive footage) |
| Thomas Sankara | Self - president of Burkina Faso / Self - President of Burkina Faso (archive footage) |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Annika Sucksdorff | Executive Producer |
| Aleksi Bardy | Executive Producer |
| Joslyn Barnes | Producer |
| Danny Glover | Producer |
| Monica Hellstrøm | Producer |
| Tobias Janson | Producer |
| Matthew Palevsky | Producer |
| Babak Parham | Producer |
| Ingemar Persson | Producer |
| Susan Rockefeller | Producer |
| Annika Rogell | Producer |
| Corey Smyth | Producer |
| Otto Fagerstedt | Producer |
| Miia Haavisto | Producer |
Editors
