SWAHILI FIGHTING WORDS

Tanzania 2011

What is the place of art in the writing, and rewriting of history? How does individual experience map onto these complex narratives of national histories? Can poetry create a nation? The film SWAHILI FIGHTING WORDS attempts to examine these questions through the story of one young man, his family, and the poetic battles that mark his, and potentially, the nation's understandings of Tanzanian history.

Encouragement Award (Sembene Awards) at the 2011 Zanzibar International Film Festival

Mohammed Yunus Rafiq is a graduate student at Brown University in U.S. with research interest n the intersection of media, African islam and public health. Furthermore, he is a film director and recently he has co-founded a Swahili online radio station to be a forum for discussion.

This film will be screened with LIFE

Film schedule

City		Location		Date		Time
Amsterdam		Bioscoop het Ketelhuis		07-10-2011		21:30