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Motherland (2010 film)

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Director
  
Owen Alik Shahadah

Budget
  
2.5 million USD

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Music director
  
Ocacia, Sona Jobarteh

Writer
  
Owen Alik Shahadah

Language
  
English Amharic Zulu Arabic Akan Hausa

Release date
  
February 11, 2010 (2010-02-11)

Cast
  
Barack Obama
,
Meles Zenawi
,
Jacob Zuma
,
Molefi Kete Asante
,
Maulana Karenga

Similar movies
  
M K Asante produced Motherland and appears in 500 Years Later

Motherland official trailer 2010


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.

Contents

Motherland a film by owen alik shahadah jacob zuma meles zenawi ali mazrui


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 African 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.

  • 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
  • Omowale Clay
  • 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
  • Hakim Quick
  • Didymus Mutasa, ZANU-PF
  • Abune Paulos, Patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Church
  • Esther Stanford
  • Kwesi Kwaa Prah
  • S'bu Ndebele
  • Ali Moussa Iye, UNESCO
  • Adama Samassékou
  • Desmond Tutu (deleted by directors)

    • 5.1 surround

    Motherland is mixed in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround.

    References

    Motherland (2010 film) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Motherland (2010 film) IMDb