Word: karamoja
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KARAMOJA...
...metaphor for racial tension is perfect, full of challenging complexity, but it is perhaps better suited to free-ranging fiction than the limited documentary treatment it receives here. Two Men of Karamoja is ambitious enough, but the form itself does not allow Director Eugene S. Jones (who made the Viet Nam documentary, A Face of War) to work past the restrictions of chronology and penetrate the true heart of the matter. Documentaries must rely on what actually happens; a dramatic narrative only has to start there...
...Karamoja does not have the appearance of a cinema-verite documentary. Although Jones denies it, some of his scenes look as if he had employed a somewhat older style, where the film maker used the real people to recreate and explain what had occurred. Whatever the cause, a certain dogged clumsiness prevails throughout, as when Ross ruminates aloud, "Many of the staff don't think I have any emotion," or when he and his successor, Paul Ssali, play a game of darts and discuss the difficulties of change...
...Uganda's presidency after leading a coup that ousted the demagogic Milton Obote. There was a massive parade through the streets of Kampala, Uganda's capital, which featured a band in kilts and busbies marching to the skirl of bagpipes and sinuous dances by women from the Karamoja area dressed in colorful bras and wood-bark skirts. In all, more than 100,000 celebrating Ugandans, representing most of the nation's 39 tribes and four regions, gathered to pay tribute to the mercurial leader who is familiarly known to his people as "Big Daddy...