Afrique, je te plumerai

Afrique, je te plumerai presents a devastating overview of a hundred years of cultural genocide in Africa in a style that has been called "provocative, idiosyncratic, playfully arch, and sardonic" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Director Jean-Marie Teno uses Cameroon, the only African country colonized by three European powers, for a carefully researched case study of the continuing damage done to traditional African societies by neocolonial culture. Teno analyzes a wide range of cultural products-including the present-day Cameroonian press and television, his own Eurocentric education, old French newsreels, little-known precolonial writings, even a satirical nightclub review. Documentaries such as this suggest an emerging genre of African "anti-documentary," deconstructing the images of the past as a precondition for constructing an authentic vision for Africa's future.

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