Africa: Slavery, Colonialism,
Imperialism, and Neo-colonialism in Film
Your culminating assessment for the Africa unit is to watch one
of the following films (or a film Mr. Reinholt approves) that you have not seen
before, and write a report on it containing the following:
1. The title
of the film and the year it was made
2. Describe how
you accessed the film. (YouTube, Google Video, Netflix, Blockbuster, etc.)
3. Brief plot
summary, about one page
4. There are
four main “Big Ideas” in this unit; Slavery, Colonialism, Imperialism, and
Neo-colonialism. Describe how this film sheds light on one of these “Big Ideas.” Use specific examples from the film.
5. Relate the
film to what we have learned in class about Nigeria and the Congo.
6. Explain how
your thinking about Africa was changed by this
film.
This film report should be typed in 12-point Times New Roman
font, double spaced, with 1” margins. It
should be 2.5-3 pages long. It is
due on Friday, May 25th.
YOU MUST GET PERMISSION FROM YOUR PARENTS TO WATCH A MOVIE RATED
“R”
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
(About the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s)
Cry Freedom (1987) (Denzel Washington as Steve
Biko, activist against South African apartheid)
Sarafina! (1992) (Musical about South African apartheid)
Power of One (1992) (British kid growing up in
South African apartheid)
Darfur Now (2007) (Documentary about genocide
in Sudan)
The Wooden Camera (2003) (Two kids in post-apartheid
South Africa find a camera and a gun)
Battle of Algiers (1965) (Battle
for Algerian independence from France)
Chocolat (1988) (French colonialism in Cameroon, not the film about
chocolate with Johnny Depp)
Lumumba (2000) (First president of the Congo that was assassinated by the United States)
Roots (1977) (Epic series about slavery – only watch the first 2 hours)
Cry Freetown (1999) (Civil war in Sierra Leone,
real-life Blood Diamond)
Tsotsi (2005) (Set in one of South
Africa’s segregated slums outside Johannesburg)
