The Colonial Misunderstanding

In The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno sheds light on the complex and problematic relationship between colonization and European missionaries on the African continent. The film looks at Christian evangelism as the forerunner of European colonialism in Africa, indeed, as the ideological model for the relationship between North and South even today. In particular it looks at the role of missionaries in Namibia on the centenary of the 1904 German genocide of the Herero people there. It reveals how colonialism destroyed African beliefs and social systems and replaced them with European ones, as if they were the only acceptable routes to modernity.


Aliases
  • Le malentendu colonial
English français
  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 263385
  • Status Released
  • Released The Netherlands January 1, 2004 (IDFA Festival) Burkina Faso January 1, 2005 (FESPACO Film Festival) Switzerland January 1, 2005 (Fribourg Film Festival) United States of America January 1, 2005 (New York African Film Festival) France September 14, 2005
  • Runtime 78 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country Cameroon
  • Original Language English
  • Production Company Les Films du Raphia Bärbel Mauch Film ARTE France Cinéma Angoa-Agicoa
  • Distributor Les Films du Raphia
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