• Director: Roger Gnoan M'Bala
  • Release Year: 2000
  • Production Country: France, Switzerland, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Italy
  • Language: French, Bambara

Adanggaman

Description

Ossei believes his family to be killed and his village destroyed in a raid by their neighbor King Adanggaman; however, Ossei discovers that his mother is still alive and pursues the soldiers who are marching their captives to market, hoping to free her before she, along with the rest of his people, is sold into slavery.

Themes

Massacres, Collaboration, Family relationships, Capitalism, Colonialism, Indigenous peoples, Ethnic tensions, Race relations