THE AFRICANS: Global Africa. Regards the cultural and experiential differences between Africa and the United States. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
Host Ali Mazrui, standing by Seine River in Paris, says that two strategies have been used by Africans to fight the color and cultural prejudices of colonialism-abolishing white privilege in Africa, and raising the status of brown people in Europe.
CUs of extravagant gold jewelry, relics of European colonial rule of Africa. MSs of an Algerian quarter of Paris: jewlery shop, signeage, window shopping, crowds, small groceries, butcher shops, etc.
EST shots of the monuments of Christian and nationalist French history. EST shots of the Basilica de Sacre-Coeur. Montmartre, Paris.
TLS/MSs inside of a mosque in France, Muslims praying, exiting, putting on shoes, shaking hands with other men.
Host Ali Mazrui says that the French treat Islam and North Africans as a cultural threat rather than an element that can coexist with French culture.
Shots of Basilica de Sacre-Coeur. Montmartre, Paris.