African Activist Archive

This leaflet publicizes an African film series including "Mapantsula" and "Mama I'm Crying" about South Africa; "After the Battle" filmed on location in Angola, South Africa, and Cuba; "Zan Boko" directed by Buriko Faso filmmaker Gaston Kabore; "Camp de Thiaroye" directed by Senegalese filmmakers Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow; and "Saaraba" (Utopia) directed by Senegalese filmmaker Amadou Saalum Seck. The leaflet says the film series is organized by the Champaign-Urbana Coalition on Africa and co-sponsored by African and African-Related Women's Organization, the African Students Association, the Center for African Studies, the Coalition for a New Tradition, NIA, In Not Now Movement, IUB, University YMCA, and YWCA Women Working for Progress. The leaflet mentions the African National Congress (ANC), Soweto, apartheid, the South African Censor Board, African soldiers during World War II, urbanization, corruption, and censorship. [Note on date: These dates are on Thursdays in 1991.]

African Activist Archive

AFRICAN LIVES, AFRICAN STRUGGLES

THE CHAMPAIGN-URBANA COALITION ON AFRICA PRESENTS THE FREE AFRICA FILM SERIES: THE MOST RECENT AND CLASSIC FILMS ON AFRICAN LIVES, AFRICAN STRUGGLES

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