Africa Awareness Week 2024! Have
You Heard from Johannesburg? Episode 7: Free at Last. Documentary
screening and discussion. Tuesday, April 16, 9:30-10:45am in Burnell Hall, Room 132A. All
are welcome.
Have You Heard from
Johannesburg is a 2010 series of
seven documentary films, covering the 45-year struggle of the global
anti-apartheid movement against South Africa's apartheid system and
its international supporters who considered them an ally in the Cold War… Free
at Last, the seventh, and final, film dives
into the heart of the conflict… A mass movement gained unprecedented momentum
when three generations of resistance fighters band[ed] together as the United Democratic
Front… Caught between an
unstoppable internal mass movement and ongoing international pressure, the
apartheid regime was finally forced to the negotiating table and at last lift[ed]
the decades-long ban on the African National Congress. After twenty-seven years
in prison, Nelson Mandela was released, sparking a global celebration.—Wikipedia
Sponsored by the African Studies Program.