Modern life takes its toll on everybody. Social and political issues seem to invade more than ever our daily life and television must take credit for a fair part of it. How does it apply to a different culture than ours? How do we “manage” that on our screens? And them, on theirs? Would you produce or broadcast their own vision of modern life? What background do we have to judge the content, even the approach of this type of programme? And by the way who is most qualified to translate one’s culture for television? Well-intended foreigners or natives? To what extent? From a research standpoint, who do you rely on? Where do we draw the line between propaganda and exoticism? NANA AKOTO, and African village leader, can’t father a child; he also wants his people to build him a grand new palace... but here’s no cement to be found anywhere” His designated successor, young and city-educated, craves for major changes in the way to organize the village. Conflicts inevitably arise and the aging-leader faces a serious climax! TSIAMELO-A PLACE OF GOODNESS tells us of 84 year-old former paesant Blanche and her 70 year-old niece Ellen who are not allowed to be at home in their won country South Africa; not dramatic nor politically oriented, it focuses on rather nice bourgeois black paesants. Just like the majority in your part of the world? Yet...
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NANA AKOTO, chief of Oyoko village in central Ghana, is getting old and tired. In spite of his young concubine’s efforts and the Juju man’s charms, he cannot… -
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In 1910, the liberal government in London let South Africa free without caring about the future of the black majority although there were warnings enough. There were…