Ghana Gold - Africa Investigates - Al Jazeera English
An Al Jazeera documentary on illegal gold mining in Ghana posted on the Al Jazeera website in November 2011.
With the price of precious metals surging on the world market, Ghana is experiencing a new gold rush as more people try and get access to its most famous export. Unfortunately, much of that effort revolves around unlicensed - and hence illegal - mining operations, known locally as galamsey, which are often funded by foreign speculators and criminals. The potential profits are huge but few if any of the groups and individuals involved will spare a thought for the environmental destruction illegal mining causes or for the safety of workers they hire, on pitiful salaries, to extract the gold on their behalf.
As Ghanaian investigative reporter, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has been discovering, the consequences of this indifference can be tragic. In June 2010 for example, one galamsey operation near Dunkwa-on-Offin, in central Ghana, went disastrously wrong when the mine flooded and 150 people were killed. It devastated the local community, but it was by no means an isolated incident. Often accidents occur when miners build unstable river dams to create a large pool of water, which they can then drain to allow digging down into the soft exposed soil. Unfortunately, the dams can burst and the miners are trapped in oozing mud without any means of getting themselves to safety. Or it can result in widespread local flooding, which devastates local communities.
donderdag 5 april 2012
donderdag 8 maart 2012
Van 16 tot 31 maart wordt het Afrika Film Festival van Leuven gehouden.
http://www.afrikafilmfestival.be/
Bijvoorbeeld:
Cairo Exit (Hesham Issawi, 2010 - Egypte)
Korte inhoud: Tarek en Amal, een islamitische jongen en een koptisch meisje, proberen tegen de heersende moraal in een gezamenlijke toekomst te realiseren. Hij wil naar Europa, maar zij wil bij haar familie blijven
http://www.afrikafilmfestival.be/
Bijvoorbeeld:
Cairo Exit (Hesham Issawi, 2010 - Egypte)
Korte inhoud: Tarek en Amal, een islamitische jongen en een koptisch meisje, proberen tegen de heersende moraal in een gezamenlijke toekomst te realiseren. Hij wil naar Europa, maar zij wil bij haar familie blijven
dinsdag 6 maart 2012
vrijdag 2 maart 2012
CINEMA Sambizanga 1972 filme pt/eng sub HIKORE KUDUROPEDIA
Dit is de film Sambizanga, door Sarah Maldoror (Angola 1972, 1h42m) over de anticoloniale vrijheidsstrijd in Angola, sinds kort beschikbaar op internet.
Samenvatting en informatie over filmmaakster en acteurs (i.h. Engels):
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to death in prison, and not knowing he is dead, his wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to know where he is...
Sambizanga is set during Angola's struggle for liberation from Portuguese domination, and tells the story of Maria Xavier's search for her husband, a worker, who has been imprisoned and tortured by the secret police. Focusing on her day-to-day existence during the struggle, Maria's physical journey gradually also marks the awakening of her political consciousness.
Guadeloupean-born director Sarah Maldoror was married to one of the leaders of the Angolan struggle for independence and devoted her filmmaking career to raising international awareness of the African liberation struggles.
Sambizanga won the first prize at the 1972 Carthage Film Festival.
With: Domingos de Oliveira, Elisa Andrade, Jean M'Vondo, Dino Abelino, Benoît Moutsila, Talagongo, Lopes Rodrigues, Henriette Meya, Manuel Videira, Ana Wilson.
donderdag 1 maart 2012
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