Akwantu: The Journey
Directed By: Roy T Anderson ⎥ 2012 ⎥ 87m
Akwantu: the Journey highlights Anderson’s travels to the “Motherland,” retracing the steps of his ancestors and their agonizing trek on foot from Africa’s northern interior to the coastal dungeons of modern day Ghana. Here slaves would be imprisoned while awaiting transport across the Atlantic Ocean – the dreaded Middle Passage. This forced-journey would inevitably give rise to the desire within these Africans to regain their lost independence and stolen freedoms. They would come to embody both in mind and spirit the struggle of a people that history would come to know as the Maroons
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