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AFRICALA festival
18/04/2007-22/04/2007
Missions Abroad - Mexico, MEXIQUE DELEGATION
Sidiki BAKABA, Director General of the Culture Palace in Abidjan COMPTE RENDU
Sidiki BAKABA MARK THE PRESENCE OF THE IVORY COAST
From 18 to 22 April 2007 held in Mexico City the first Festival of African Cinema "Africala. IVORY COAST has been represented by an authority, Sidiki BAKABA.
The first Festival of African Cinema of Mexico City "Africala" began April 18, 2007 and ending 22 months of the same. Sidiki BAKABA, Director General of the Palace of Culture, in his capacity as Director, has been invited. The artist who counts among the greatest actors of Ivorian and African arrived Tuesday, April 17 in the Mexican capital, he presented a documentary film co-directed with the Cameroonian Blaise Ndjehoya: "Five centuries of solitude" or "Los palenqueros Colombian Pacific, the Ci-brown of Colombia. "
Produced by Ayala BAKABA "Five centuries of solitude" won the Special UEMOA for the liberation of black people at Fespaco in 2001 in Ouagadougou. Through this film, and Blaise Ndjehoya Sidiki BAKABA "revisit the generic term following-brown (the brown cattle = leakage) by discovering a forgotten after Colombian community of marronage: the palenqueros.
Produced as part of the Sesquicentennial celebration of the 2nd abolition of slavery by France (Victor Schoelcher 1848), this documentary takes a real interest. It reveals parts of the forgotten history of the slave trade. "A century and a half (1713) before the abolition of slavery in Colombia, until 1853 (5 years after the abolition in France 2nd), communities of black revolt and free themselves by creating" Palenque, free villages and mountains between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. These people are still evidence of the process of resistance to slavery through their culture, a blend of tradition and creativity still live in this region. "
Some facts have motivated the two directors: "In 1991, the Colombian government changed its Constitution recognizes the rights of specific minority Indian and Afro Colombian communities: ownership and usufruct of the lands they occupied, enrollment status registers Civil ... In 1998, Juan de Dios Mosquera, leader of National Movement Ci-brown in Colombia receives Matignon price of Human Rights. This meeting Ndjehoya BAKABA and decide to make a documentary where they show how these palenqueros "now working to rebuild their African memory that was included in their religious rites, their traditional music, their art and their techniques. This memory is the axis of cultural identification key of the new Afro-Colombianita claimed by the movement following chestnuts.
It is noted that after Africala, Sidiki BAKABA attend the 2 to 6 May 2007 as special guest at another festival, one of Acapulco where it will still "five centuries of solitude."
Christian KOCANI
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