1 option
African exodus.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African diaspora.
- Africa--Emigration and immigration.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (22 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- London : SW Pictures Ltd., 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- An extremely powerful film showing the terrible risks that Africans will take to get to The Promised Land. Juan Medina, an Argentine photographer, arrived in Spain twenty years ago. Medina was looking for a better life and decided to settle in Fuerteventura, attracted by a tourist slogan portraying it as 'The Tranquil Isle.' He could not have guessed then that he would be an eye witness to the tragic exodus of Africans to Europe. Over the last ten years, 32,000 Africans have landed on the coast of the Canary Islands in makeshift boats. Many have died in the attempt, drowned in the 100 or so kilometers of seas separating the islands from the African mainland. One night in November 2004, Juan was on board a Spanish police patrol vessel. A drifting craft was spotted full of immigrants. But the makeshift boat capsized: 11 people drowned and 29 were rescued.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Jul. 9, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 852996094
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.