African Glory
Did the first African to reach the Americas arrive as a king and not a slave? West Africa in the 13th century saw the rise of a vast empire — the Manden Empire. One hundred and eighty years before Christopher Columbus, its emperor Abu Bakr II set off to cross the Atlantic with an armada of 2,000 ships. He never returned. Drawing on both fact and fiction, this film sets out to restore the Manden civilization to its rightful place in history.
| Director | Thierry Siegfried Bugaud |
| Actor | Badewa Ajibade |
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In this fictionalized documentary, we witness as the filmmaker travels into the past, and then deeper into it in order to examine some African colonial histories that have been taken as fact truth, then proceed to deconstruct them, thereby revealing the possibilities and even evidence of alternate histories that predate colonial histories on the African continent.
In Africa and its diaspora, Africans and people of African descent have been made to see the history of the world through the eyes of their White colonizers. As much as evidence is present in parts of the New and Old World, it has been lost on many that the decision to push the agenda of White histories and White discoveries such as the discoveries of Christopher Columbus may have resulted in the deletion of other histories in order to present and preserve their version of history as the only one. However, as we continue to decolonize history, we could be on the verge of some of the greatest discoveries of all time through alternate decolonized versions of colonial histories.
Badewa Ajibade
Guest curator
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Français
1h04
Language: Français -
English
1h04
Language: English
- Année 2023
- Pays Mali, France, Mexico
- Durée 64
- Producteur La Boîte dans la Boîte
- Langue French, English, Bambara
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court A documentary investigation on Abubakari II, leader of the West African Mandingo empire, and the mysteries surrounding the expedition he led to reach the American continent 180 years before Christopher Columbus.
- Mention festival Jury Prize · 2023 Cannes International Pan-African Film Festival
In this fictionalized documentary, we witness as the filmmaker travels into the past, and then deeper into it in order to examine some African colonial histories that have been taken as fact truth, then proceed to deconstruct them, thereby revealing the possibilities and even evidence of alternate histories that predate colonial histories on the African continent.
In Africa and its diaspora, Africans and people of African descent have been made to see the history of the world through the eyes of their White colonizers. As much as evidence is present in parts of the New and Old World, it has been lost on many that the decision to push the agenda of White histories and White discoveries such as the discoveries of Christopher Columbus may have resulted in the deletion of other histories in order to present and preserve their version of history as the only one. However, as we continue to decolonize history, we could be on the verge of some of the greatest discoveries of all time through alternate decolonized versions of colonial histories.
Badewa Ajibade
Guest curator
-
Français
Duration: 1h04Language: Français1h04 -
English
Duration: 1h04Language: English1h04
- Année 2023
- Pays Mali, France, Mexico
- Durée 64
- Producteur La Boîte dans la Boîte
- Langue French, English, Bambara
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court A documentary investigation on Abubakari II, leader of the West African Mandingo empire, and the mysteries surrounding the expedition he led to reach the American continent 180 years before Christopher Columbus.
- Mention festival Jury Prize · 2023 Cannes International Pan-African Film Festival
