Liberia: America's Stepchild (2002)
Directed by Nancee Oku Bright
Genres - Historical Film, War |
Sub-Genres - Military & War, Politics & Government, Social History |
Run Time - 90 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
Tracing the history of the West African nation settled in the 1820s by U.S. blacks, where there has always been tension between the settlers' descendants and the indigenous people. "What happened to this place?" sighs filmmaker-narrator Nancee Oku Bright, herself a Liberian. The story she tells---first of a virtual colonialism by Americo-Africans, then of authoritarianism, corruption and insurrection---isn't pretty and can be grisly, as seen in grainy video taken during a 1989-96 civil war.
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Africa, Black [race], civil-war, despair, homeland, independence, indigenous-peoples, Liberia, poverty, settler, slavery, struggle, turmoil
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