España, 2003. Un descubrimiento accidental lleva a Clarence a viajar desde las montañas nevadas de Huesca a Guinea Ecuatorial, para visitar la tierra donde su padre Jacobo y su tío Kilian pasaron la mayor parte de su juventud, la isla de Fernando Poo.
Sudán. Principios de los 80. Un equipo de agente especiales, liderado por Ari Levinson, estará al frente de una arriesgada misión en el país africano. Rescatar y trasladar a miles de refugiados judíos desde Sudán a Israel. Para no levantar sospechas, Kidron establecerá la base de la operación en un pequeño pueblo turístico de la costa. El enclave perfecto para la huida. Sin embargo, las autoridades de la zona no tardarán en sospechar del equipo formado por los cinco agentes americanos y la vuelta a casa será más ardua de lo que jamás llegaron a imaginar.
En 1961 el secretario general de Naciones Unidas, Dag Hammarskjöld, murió en un misterioso accidente de avión en Zambia. El director Mads Brügger intenta encontrar nuevas pistas sobre lo que pasó aquel fatídico día en el que murieron 16 personas.
En 1885, África es un suculento pastel destinado a ser dividido salvajemente y todo el mundo quiere un trozo. Un rey europeo perturbado, un pigmeo que trabaja en un hotel de lujo, un empresario exitoso pero solitario, un porteador esclavizado, un joven desertor del ejército, un clarinetista fantasmagórico. Unos se benefician del colonialismo y la codicia. Otros sufren racismo y violencia.
The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, by then lord of Libya, Eritrea and Somalia; a bloody and tragic story told through the naive drawings of Pietro Dall'Igna, an Italian schoolboy born in 1925.
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine, war and political chaos.
The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare from a historical, psychological, sexual, biological, health, educational, and military perspective.
Sudáfrica, 11 de julio de 1963. Varios miembros del Congreso Nacional Africano, una organización declarada ilegal, son arrestados en Rivonia, una casa de campo cerca de Johannesburgo. Los detenidos, y Nelson Mandela, encarcelado desde 1962, son acusados de graves delitos por su activismo radical contra el régimen del apartheid…
The largest country in the Arab world and a producer of hydrocarbons, Algeria has everything it needs to weigh on the international scene. But Africa's second military power seems undermined by its internal problems. While the Bouteflika regime has fallen and the popular “hirak” movement has shown that the people are ready to enter a more democratic era, the country appears as a colossus with feet of clay, which has failed enhance their independence. How did this isolation come about? From the “dark decade” of terrorism to the fall of Bouteflika, via 9/11 or the Arab revolutions, this documentary sheds light on Algerian foreign policy in recent decades, while deciphering the strategy of Western powers towards it.
In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African tunes with Afro-Cuban music to create the electrifying Congolese rumba, a style that conquered the entire continent thanks to an infectious rhythm, captivating guitar sounds and smooth vocals.
El despiadado dictador Teodoro Obiang ha gobernado Guinea Ecuatorial con mano de hierro desde 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel es el escritor ecuatoguineano más traducido, pero tuvo que huir del país en 2011, después de iniciar una huelga de hambre denunciando los crímenes de la dictadura. Desde entonces, ha vivido en España, sintiendo que, a pesar de los riesgos, debe regresar y luchar contra el monstruo con palabras.
Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the so-called German South West Africa (1884-1915) is hideous; a hidden and silenced account of looting and genocide.
In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity, crudeness and open-mindedness the reality of the atrocities perpetrated against the inhabitants of the Belgian colonies in Africa, still haunted and traumatized by the ghost of King Leopold II of Belgium, a racist and genocidal tyrant.
Sudan, Southern Kordofan, the Nuba Mountains in Africa. Scenes from the forgotten war that the fighters of the Nuba people have held since 2011 against the government of President Omar al-Bashir and the Sudanese army, which crudely show the hard daily life of Hannan, a brave woman fighting for the survival of her family; Jordania, a promising student; Mosquito, a reckless journalist; and Al-Bagir, a rebel leader.
75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist destination, by its unique history is the epicenter of the Gullah culture and the foundation of African American history; the result of the mingling of West African slaves with the plantation culture awaiting them in America.