AfroPoP: 10 Days In Africa 45 mins
Produced by Regi Allen
Price: $14.95
In a wonderfully textured narrative style, African American filmmaker Regi Allen makes a sojourn to three West African countries to discover for himself the truth behind the myths that separate black identity in Africa from black identity in the Diaspora. With a critical lens often pointed at himself, Allen creates an intoxicatingly chaotic film that raises as many questions as it answers. Filled with deeply moving cinematic stills and 8MM footage, 10 Days In Africa is a song of love intended to heal many wounds, while weaving a complicated path to his firmer understanding of black identity.
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went to Ghana in 2002, found people there talented and intelligent. They are skilled at getting money out of blacks from America by playing on the fact of our lost identity. Going is an experience I think every African American should have an opportunity to have but should get some smarts before you go and know and respect their culture while there.
Posted by Sakoma | May 04 2009 at 06:09 pm | report this comment
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Wow! what and experience and a walk back down memory lane.I was in Accra/Ghana this past 07;08;09 of 2009 of which I married a Ghanian. I am an African-American woman and never,ever imagined I would be blessed to step foot on our homeland let alone actually get to travel there and then be blessed to marry on of my African brothes...God is Good. Your depictionof Ghana was very good and your experience from a tour guide and a bus was self explanatory also; your last day in Accra gave you the insite to what you were looking for; The Door of Never return became your door and my door (after taking this awesome journey with you from a captive lense) became the Door of Return because you/we were there. That in and of itself speaks volumns. I lived in Bubiashie (a few miles from the heart of Accra) for the 2 1/2 months that I lived in Africa with my husband, now running water, no toilet, no grocery store, no WalMart, No Walmart, No McDonalds but apeople that Welomed you and invited you to whatever they were eating and whatever they had, a people that were forever happy and singing and dancing and NEVER complaining. If it were not for my having to come back to America to my 83 year old Mother I woud have stayed in Africa and lived very comfortably off my retirement. Upon returning to America, I am processing (VISA) for my African husband to come to America where he will do very well as he is professional photographer, I am thinking one day he and I will retire in our land Africa, where there is very few White Men....God Bless and thank you for this wonderful walk back down memory lane.
Posted by Pamela A Qualls-Botwe | Jan 30 2010 at 02:31 am | report this comment