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DESCRIPTION:The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno (Cameroon/Germany/France, 
 2004)   Introduced by LaToya Beck   LaToya Beck is a Ph.D. student in the 
 African Diaspora Studies Program in UC Berkeley's Department of African 
 American Studies.   (Le Malentendu colonial). The line connecting religious 
 zeal and colonial conquest is drawn with unerring sharpness in this exposé 
 of the German missionary experience in Africa by Jean-Marie Teno, who was 
 an artist in residence at PFA last year. Teno's investigation moves from 
 the German town of Wuppertal, home of many nineteenth-century missionaries, 
 to Namibia, visiting archives, churches, and historical sites and 
 uncovering the truths, myths, and forgotten stories of Europe's 
 missionary-turned-colonial activities in Africa. He uncovers the breaking 
 point where missionaries of God became ambassadors of Country, and where 
 souls to be saved became workers to be exploited. The Colonial 
 Misunderstanding offers far more pointed and unsettling revelations: the 
 1904 use of German missionaries to lead trusting Herero tribesmen into 
 concentration camps (the first documented use of the phrase), or the fact 
 that the church's leader in Namibia later became a strident Nazi, and from 
 there one of the leaders of apartheid.   —Jason Sanders   • Written by 
 Teno. Photographed by Dieter Stürmer, Teno. (78 mins, In English, French, 
 and German with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86293.php
SUMMARY:African Film Festival: Colonial Misunderstanding
LOCATION:2575 Bancroft Way, @ Bowditch  UC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86293.php
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