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https://www.abibitumi.com/crowdfundBang For Your Buck (Run time—approx. 20 minutes)In post conflict Burundi one thing remains affordable to all: the grenade. Journalist Teddy Mazina follows the stories behind the headlines of never-ending explosive lethal attacks. The film will take us to meet the actual victims of the attacks who share with Teddy how it is impossible to have a semblance of unity when it is so easy to solve problems by throwing grenades, rather than working through issues peacefully. The film shows how the personal accounts are living breathing statistics resulting from the greater problem of illegal arms transfers which has handicapped a nation from moving forward in a mature, functional, healthy manner.For Humanity: Culture, Community and Maroonage (Run time – 57 minutes)The Maroons are groups of Africans who escaped from enslavement and established villages hidden away where they could practice their indigenous African culture and be free. This documentary explores the world’s first Maroon group in relation to what solutions they may have to offer for some of humanity’s most difficult problems.
https://www.abibitumi.com/crowdfundBig Banana (Run time—approx. 90 minutes)In the coastal region of Cameroon, in Central Africa, a western conglomerate has set up a lucrative exploitation of dessert banana for over 30 years. This lucrative business should normally generate wealth and economic growth for community as well as for the company, instead, the plantation workers barely manage to survive with as low as 40 dollars per month work over 15 hours a day, health issues arise due to the use of toxic chemical product used to treat banana trees, people get expropriated by the state in favor of the almighty big banana company so it can generate billions of profits. People of the Moungo region are failed by their government and their representatives who are bought and paid for by the company.
IAS Film Series: Thomas Sankara - The Upright Man
IAS Film Series - Ota Benga Discussion
IAS Film Series - Kemtiyu Discussion
Countering The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys [1987] | Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Mhenga Jacob Carruthers: Intellectual Warfare
A documentary looking at the origins of all our blue ribbon sports, from Ancient Egypt, peopled by Black Africans at that time. The documentary also proposes that the African History of Sport is a key tool in decolonizing education.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Decolonizing Our Bodies and Resources
Ngugi wa Thiong’o - Planting African Memory: The Role of a Scholar