Bamako (2006)

Directors

Abderrahmane Sissako

Cast

Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Habib Dembélé, Danny Glover, Elia Suleiman, Abderrahmane Sissako

The story

The film depicts a trial taking place in Bamako, the capital of Mali, amid the daily life that is going on in the city. In the midst of that trial, two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are guided by special interest of developed nations, or whether it is corruption and the individual nations' mismanagement, that is guilty of the current financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries as well as the rest of the poor undeveloped world. It also addresses the everlasting effects of the European colonization and discusses how it plays a role in shaping African societies.

Genres

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