Motherland (እናት ሀገር ˀənatə hägär) is a 2010 independent documentary film directed and written by Owen 'Alik Shahadah. Motherland is the sequel to the 2005 documentary 500 Years Later.
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Synopsis
Motherland is a documentary about the African continent from Ancient Egypt to the present. It is an overview of African history and contemporary issues but with the African people at the centre of the story.
Awards
2011 Nominated Best Diaspora Documentary Africa Movie Academy Award (2011)
Best Documentary Zanzibar International Film Festival (2010)
Best Board of directors award for Documentary Pan-African Film Festival (2010)
Cast
The cast features key figures from the African political world, including:
Barack Obama stock footage from visit to Africa
Harry Belafonte
Rohan Marley, son of Bob Marley and member of the Rastafari Movement
Amiri Baraka
Abdulkadir Ahmed Said, Somali filmmaker
Maulana Karenga
Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa
Frances Cress Welsing
Molefi Kete Asante
Kimani Nehusi
Chen Chimutengwende, Minister of Information and Publicity Zimbabwe
Meles Zenawi, late Prime Minister of Ethiopia
David Commissiong
Ali Mazrui
Mohamed Ibn Chambas, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission
Haki R. Madhubuti
Hakim Adi
Nicole Lee, TransAfrica Forum
Tsedenia Gebremarkos
Zanele Hlatshwayo, Mayor of Pietermaritzburg
Gamal Nkrumah, son of Ghana's first President Kwame Nkrumah
Jeff Radebe, African National Congress
Didymus Mutasa, ZANU-PF
Abune Paulos, Patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Esther Stanford
Kwesi Kwaa Prah
S'bu Ndebele
Adama Samassékou
Desmond Tutu (deleted by directors)
5.1 surround
Motherland is mixed in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround.