Edit: 24 Countries, 78 Films
Angola: Sambizanga [1973]
Algeria: The Battle of Algiers [1966], Chronicles of the Years of Fire[1975], Rachida [2003]
Burkina Faso: Samba Traore [1992], Buud Yam[1997], The Law [1990], Sia, The Myth of the Python [2001], Yaaba [1989], God's Gift [1982]
Cameroon: The Child of Another[1975],
Chad: Dry Season [2006], A Screaming Man [2010], Bye Bye Africa [1999]
Congo: Benda Bilili [2010]
Egypt: Cairo Station [1958], The Land [1970], The Night of Counting the Years [1969], The Will [1939]
Ethiopia: Difret [2014], Harvest: 3000 Years [1976]
Ghana: The Burial of Kojo [2018]
Guinea: Dakan [1997]
Guinea-Bissau: Tree of Blood [1996]
Ivory Coast: Els Oblidats Dels Oblidats [2011], Woubi Cheri [1998], Black and White in Color [1976]
Kenya: Kati Kati [2016], Rafiki [2018]
Mali: Yeelen [1987], Bamako [2006], Kabala, The Young Girl [1975], The Wind [1982], Baara[1978], Life on Earth [1998], Genesis [1999]
Mauritiana: Timbuktu [2014], Soleil O [1967], Waiting for Happiness[2002]
Morocco: Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets [2000], The Great Journey [2004]
Niger: Sarraounia [1986]
Nigeria: The Lost Okoroshi [2019], Green White Green [2016], Mother of George [2013]
Rwanda: Sometimes in April [2005]
Senegal: Black Girl [1966], The Little Girl who sold the Sun[1999], Moolaadé [2004], Hyenas [1992], Touki Bouki[1973], Fad'jal [1979], Letter from my village [1975], The Wagoner [1963], Mossane [1996], Camp de Thiaroye [1988], Emitai [1971], Mandabi [1968], Badou Boy[1970], Le Franc[1994], Faat Kine[2001], Guelwaar [1992], Atlantics [2019]
South Africa: Tsotsi [2005], District 9 [2009], The Gods Must be Crazy [1980]
Tunisia: The Dove's Lost Necklace [1992], Bab'Aziz [2005], The Silences of the Palace [1994], Beauty and the Dogs [2017]
Uganda: Who Killed Captain Alex? [2010]
Zambia: I am not a Witch [2017]
Not Specific to Any Country: White Material [2009], Black Venus [2010], My Voice [2002], A Season in France [2017]
Hollywood films based in Africa : Hotel Rwanda [2014], Beasts of No Nation [2015]
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These are the guys Wakaliwood
Out of Africa is the 1985 movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. It's based on the real-life experiences of Karen Blixen, a Danish woman who attempted coffee-farming in what is now Kenya from about 1915-1930.
So of course it's colonialism out the wazoo. That is touched on a bit in the film, by the same characters who are doing it! The Redford character takes rich people out to hunt big game, for fuck's sakes.
I didn't even think of all this when I first saw the film in the 80s or even on later re-watches. But NOW, watching them clear the forest to make way for coffee plants makes me want to flip a table. There is some attempt to re-direct water but it doesn't work.
Ultimately the whole farm fails and she has to go back to Denmark. She tries to get some land set aside for the local people but you just know they are gonna get fucked over. The farm was developed into a suburb almost immediately after she left.
And now here we are and we know what a catastrophe all that was. Not just because of romantic notions about the wilderness and a lost way of life, but because that ecosystem is gone, forever. It won't sustain life on the same level again for thousands if not millions of years.
So, great. 😔
Angola: Sambizanga [1973]
Algeria: The Battle of Algiers [1966], Chronicles of the Years of Fire[1975], Rachida [2003]
Burkina Faso: Samba Traore [1992], Buud Yam[1997], The Law [1990], Sia, The Myth of the Python [2001], Yaaba [1989], God's Gift [1982]
Cameroon: The Child of Another[1975],
Chad: Dry Season [2006], A Screaming Man [2010], Bye Bye Africa [1999]
Congo: Benda Bilili [2010]
Egypt: Cairo Station [1958], The Land [1970], The Night of Counting the Years [1969], The Will [1939]
Ethiopia: Difret [2014], Harvest: 3000 Years [1976]
Ghana: The Burial of Kojo [2018], Beast of No Nation[2015]
Guinea: Dakan [1997]
Guinea-Bissau: Tree of Blood [1996]
Ivory Coast: Els Oblidats Dels Oblidats [2011], Woubi Cheri [1998], Black and White in Color [1976]
Kenya: Kati Kati [2016], Rafiki [2018]
Mali: Yeelen [1987], Bamako [2006], Kabala, The Young Girl [1975], The Wind [1982], Baara[1978], Life on Earth [1998], The Wind [1982], Genesis [1999]
Mauritiana: Timbuktu [2014], Soleil O [1967], Waiting for Happiness[2002]
Morocco: Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets [2000], The Great Journey [2004]
Niger: Sarraounia [1986]
Nigeria: The Lost Okoroshi [2019], Green White Green [2016], Mother of George [2013]
Rwanda: Sometimes in April [2005], Hotel Rwanda [2014]
Senegal: Black Girl [1966], The Little Girl who sold the Sun[1999], Moolaadé [2004], Hyenas [1992], Touki Bouki[1973], Fad'jal [1979], Letter from my village [1975], The Wagoner [1963], Mossane [1996], Camp de Thiaroye [1988], Emitai [1971], Mandabi [1968], Badou Boy[1970], Le Franc[1994], Faat Kine[2001], Guelwaar [1992], Atlantics [2019]
South Africa: Tsotsi [2005], District 9 [2009], The Gods be Crazy [1980]
Tunisia: The Dove's Lost Necklace [1992], Bab'Aziz [2005], The Silences of the Palace [1994], Beauty and the Dogs [2017]
Zambia: I am not a Witch [2017]
Not Specific to Any Country: White Material [2009], Black Venus [2010], My Voice [2002], A Season in France [2017]
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