Films let you know Africa more!

Films let you know Africa more !!!

 Africa is a charming continent worthy of reflection in every corner of it; Its multiple tribes, colors, religions, races, problems. And of course - and this is perhaps the most famous - its extended plains and dense forests that embrace the finest possible patterns of all kinds of different animals that are unparalleled in the world.

It is natural for the continent to evoke the imagination of every person involved in art, literature and thought, making it the center of many cinematic material, lectures and books that highlight the continent's conditions and opportunities, show its anonymity and also reveal many common mistakes about it.

Here we review a selection of films, lectures, documentaries and books that help to explore the continent in a way that combines information and interest at the same time...

• Film: The Last King of Scotland 

Production, 2006, starring the American actor, Brown Forest Whitaker, and James McAvoy.

Last King of Scotland is one of the best films made in Hollywood to show different aspects of the life of the Ugandan dictator (Idi Amin) in the seventies of the last century, which is considered a very bloody period in the history of Uganda.

The film highlights the strange practices of the military general who ruled his country with iron and fire. The constant mantras of national slogans, while falling into a sea of ​​personal pleasures, and the bloody intensity with which a man was known to deal with his opponents, and even those loyal to him as soon as they fell into the circle of his doubts.

• Documentary: Deadly Animals in Africa

It is impossible to get to know Africa's culture and environment without referring to the nature of the animals in which it lives. 

Documentaries (Africa's deadly animals) are a set of documentaries produced by National Geographic, each episode embodying a group of animal species in Africa that are usually ferocious and deadly. This documentary series reviews a wide range of diverse animals that live in the brown continent, which can describe your bad luck if you encounter one of them on your way.

• Film: the first grader

Production 2010, starring Naomi Harris and Oliver Lotendo.

The First Grader tells a biography based on a true story by its hero (Kimani Marouge), an 84-year-old Kenyan farmer who decided to fight illiteracy by joining elementary school when he was this age; After the Kenyan government announced free basic education in 2003.

The film contains many influential cinematic scenes that embody the human love to learn as long as he has the opportunity to do so, no matter how old. The idea (it's never too late) is the main idea that the film revolves around and promotes, as a reflection of the Kenyan reality in the possibility of catching up with the global civilization, even if it was late.

Kimani Maruji (died 2009, one year before the release of the film) is considered a global icon in the field of education, and it was included in the Guinness Book of Records being the oldest person in the world to enroll in primary education after a long journey from life in the restrictions of illiteracy. Google celebrated its memory in 2015.

• Film: Out of Africa

Production of the year 1985, starring Meryl Streep and star Robert Redford, and is considered one of the most important international films that embodied life in Africa. The film won 7 Academy Awards.

The film is based on a biography of a Danish Baroness who lives a well-off life in Denmark, only a traitorous absurd husband tries by all means to lean towards him and adapt to his character without success. Until you decide to go on a trip to Africa, to meet a fisherman living in Kenya, the hunter is obsessed with the way of African life and he never wants to get out of it, he does not want to return to Europe.

The film reveals the African way of life, whether in terms of nature or others, and highlights Kenya in the period between (1914 to 1931), and teems with scenes that continuously explain to the viewer the nature of the environment, lifestyle, African thinking and its complete difference from European thinking.

African cinema is not limited to these works only. I advise you to explore Africa closely!