Word: amandla
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...AMANDLA! A new documentary on the role that song played in the battle against apartheid in South Africa, Amandla begins with the sight of children singing as they watch the exhumation and reburial of their executed father’s corpse. Closing with the sight of newly-elected president Nelson Mandela gleefully dancing amid throngs of followers, the film contrasts the violence of South Africa’s apartheid era with the humanity and emotion of both its Afrikaaner and black South African subjects. The movie tells the story of black South African freedom music...
...AMANDLA! A new documentary on the role that song played in the battle against apartheid in South Africa, Amandla begins with the sight of children singing as they watch the exhumation and reburial of their executed father’s corpse. Closing with the sight of newly-elected president Nelson Mandela gleefully dancing amid throngs of followers, the film contrasts the violence of South Africa’s apartheid era with the humanity and emotion of both its Afrikaaner and black South African subjects. The movie tells the story of black South African freedom music...
...Amandla is a compilation of personal interviews, musical performances, reenactment and original clippings from newsreels and films of rallies...
...single type of footage dominates Amandla...
...Amandla,” the Xhosa word for “power,” was the rallying cry that activists used to punctuate the end of many songs...