“‘Africa is not poor, it is impoverished,’ says Mali’s former culture minister, Aminata Traoré. The rich countries of the North earn from this impoverishment and at the same time seal themselves off ever more strongly against migration from the South and East. Using the West African states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire as examples, Berlin-based documentary filmmaker Leona Goldstein shows the political and economic backgrounds that drive people to migrate. The unequal relations between Africa and Europe are always taken into account. For example, the pressure of the world market on the price of cocoa leads to a deep economic crisis in Côte d’Ivoire, the largest cocoa producer in the world. After two attempted coups, war breaks out, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee. Most refugees remain in the country or in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso.” (from the Review by Bettina Engels)
The film can be ordered here.
Au claire de la lune. Realités françafricaines | Leona Goldstein | D | 2006 | multilingual with German/English/French UT | documentary | 40 min.