THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa. Regards the cultural and experiential differences between Africa and the United States. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
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Opening montage sequence
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Titles
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Low angle MS teenaged African-American girls clapping in a ring chant; level MSs of same; location is rural American south;
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Charleston, South Carolina. TLS tower of building, tilt to street scene, horse pulls carriage. Traveling shots of stately mansions along a street. EXT of Old Slave Mart Museum, Charleston.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Host Ali Mazrui discusses American slavery as a break with continuity of African identity, teaching by whites of shame in African.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
DO NOT USE Archival stills (very early) of African slaves.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
Mr. Ali Mazrui says that the whole history of the United States for African-Americans has been a continuous lesson that one must forget Africa when thinking about blackness.