Word: apartheid
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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...
Hirsch points to his own Jewish background as a further personal connection to the victims of apartheid...
...movie tells the story of black South African freedom music and how it articulated and embodied the people’s spirit during the struggle to end apartheid...
...white National Party came to power in South Africa, and apartheid began. The next forty years were a whirlwind of riots, insurrections, arrests and massacres, with black South Africans the greatest victims of the violence...
...1950s, the African National Congress (ANC) organized a massive non-violent campaign against apartheid. Songs like “Nkosi Sikelel’i,” the People’s Anthem, a prayer for peace and harmony, accompanied the rallies...