Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
The film is an allegory of the dilemma between tradition and modernity and of the need to create a new African culture. It suggests that it is not enough simply to reject tradition or return to one’s origins to fend off Westernisation.
The film is an allegory of the dilemma between tradition and modernity and of the need to create a new African culture. It suggests that it is not enough simply to reject tradition or return to one’s origins to fend off Westernisation.