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Panda Farnana, een Congolees die stoort
Afrika Filmfestival 2012 |
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Documentary
Director: Françoise Levie
Country: België
Year: 2011
Length: 0u55
Dialogues: French
Subtitles: Dutch
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SYNOPSIS
Raised by an unmarried female Belgian artist, Paul Panda Farnana was the first Congolese to have been awarded a diploma in higher education in Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century.
Appointed as an agronomist, he returned to the Congo as the first Belgian civil servant with black skin. He underwent there the apartheid and little by little had to renounce his various posts due to harassment. He returned to Belgium in 1914 and, when war was declared, enlisted as a volunteer. He was caught and taken back to Germany where he was held until the liberation in 1918.
The years spent, both in the Congo and German camps, drove him to try to improve the living conditions of his fellow countrymen. For ten years, he was to devote all his energy to demanding equality between whites and blacks through education, and making those in charge responsible, under the virulent attacks of the colonial press. |
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Links
Website over Paul Panda Farnana
Facebook pagina
Bespreking in Flanders Magazine
Website van de producent
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