Songololo: Voices of Change (1990)

Directed by

Marianne Kaplan

Country

Canada

Runtime

54 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at South Africa during the early days of leaving apartheid behind. It focuses on writer Gcina Mhlophe and musician Mzwakhe Mbuli to see how art and music helped push for change.

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What happens

Songololo: Voices of Change is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Marianne Kaplan and released in 1990. An examination of South Africa in the earliest days of the transition from apartheid to democracy, the film explores the power of music and art as tools of activism and social change, focusing primarily on writer Gcina Mhlophe and musician Mzwakhe Mbuli. The film received selected theatrical screenings in Canada in October 1990, before having its television premiere on TVOntario and Knowledge Network in November. Its broadcast on TVOntario was as an episode of the network's documentary series Human Edge. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Short Documentary Film at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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