Black Film: West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

[Zhana Books]

Greetings, all.  

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty will be showing as part of the African Odysseys strand at BFI London South Bank on Saturday the 7th of December.  

This impassioned examination of slavery and its consequences derives from the West African oral tradition of the griots. A vast musical fresco narrates 400 years of history, from enslavement to recent emigration. Using imaginative staging and a fluid visual style, it's set is an enormous slave ship (built in an unused Citroen factory in Paris) with frequent narrative shifts taking the actors through various vignettes in the story of colonialism.

Click here for details and to book.  I look forward to seeing you there.  

Regards, 

Zhana