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kiwi
Sweden
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 Posted - 10 Feb 2008 : 17:49:43
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Last night I went to see the film Africa Paradis by Sylvestre Amoussou .
Europe has become underdeveloped due to economic and political crisis, unemployment in France is 66%, Turkey has taken over Germany. Europeans desperately want to emigrate to the United States of Africa, where everybody is prosperous, have big houses and shining cars, where whites are drivers, waiters and street cleaners, not reliable people at all. It is about immigration problems but upside-down. Even if there are some tragic events, it is mostly humorous and made the audience laugh out loud.
There are not many opportunities to watch the film – European film distributors are not interested though the film has been prized. Also the photo is extremely good. The film was set in Senegal and was financed by Africans in diaspora.
Sylvestre Amoussou, who was present at the show, was born in Benin and started as an actor but moved to France and now made his first feature film.
I found some video clips (which doesn´t make the film justice):
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/africa%2Bparadis
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tapalapa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 Feb 2008 : 21:16:28
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Kiwi,
Thank you Kiwi
I have often thought that the situation and appropriate wealth between Europe and Africa could reverse itself, especially when the West has burnt itself out, the technology we rely on so much no longer works and our very souls are destroyed. I often think we will migrate to Mother Africa who will teach us to live off the land.......so this film is very appropriate to my thinking, however, as it is not in English I cannot understand it !
Is it possible to get it with sub titles - the topic is very interesting indeed.
Tapa
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kiwi
Sweden
662 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2008 : 22:23:14
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Yes Tapa, we probably are digging our graves.
The film I watched was with English subtitles, trailers obviously not.
It has its own home site which I found translated into English:
http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://africa.paradis.free.fr/interface01.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522africa%2Bparadis%2522%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
If you click on ”cliques ici pour un petit apercu du DVD” , you´ll come to the ordering site in which they say that they in the near future will be able to make shipments all over the world.
Here is the original French web site
http://africa.paradis.free.fr/
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kiwi
Sweden
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Posted - 13 Feb 2008 : 15:09:29
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Africa´s bright future might not be that close than pictured in the above film. Only yesterday someone told me that a new colonization era just has started again in Senegal, this time by China.
Several roads around Dakar have been built of Chinese government as an development
aid. They deliver what they promise, job is done by Chinese workers, they work very efficiently. When job is finished they leave the country. It does not give any work opportunities to the Senegalese people. Of course they want something in return and that is they want establish business. There already are a huge amount of Chinese shops everywhere in Dakar. Things such as shoes and clothes are very cheap, indeed a good thing, but the quality is inferior and, at the same time it oust locals out of business. Who is going to be prosperous?
Is it the same with Taiwan in the Gambia?
Coincidentally, my newspaper had an article on the issue in the morning. – “Chinas presence
threatens jobs”. There are said to be two perspectives in Africa (meaning the whole continent), the one saying that China is the rescuer in need, providing cheap loans without service in return, the other that the Chinese presence threatens the African small business and increases unemployment.
The trade between Africa and China was 55,5 billions in both directions 2006.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 13 Feb 2008 : 15:18:53
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KIWI,If I remember correctly China tried in the Gambia a few years ago,the only trouble at that time was that their technology and quality were not up to standard.The Chinese are very clever people and their thinking in recent times has changed a little,so has the world,if African small buisness cannot keep up then perhaps they should try a different approach. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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kiwi
Sweden
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Posted - 13 Feb 2008 : 15:42:53
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| Thanks, toubab. Sorry, I have to go now and do some "business". |
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