Motherland ( ) is a 2010 independent documentary film directed and written by Owen 'Alik Shahadah.British Council Motherland is the sequel to the 2005 documentary 500 Years Later.
Synopsis Motherland is a documentary about the African continent from Ancient Egypt to the present. It is an overview of African history and contemporary issues but with the African people at the centre of the story.
Awards 2011 Nominated Best Diaspora Documentary Africa Movie Academy Award (2011)AMAA Nominees and Winners 2011, AMA Awards website Best Documentary Zanzibar International Film Festival (2010)Motherland wins Best Documentary at ZIFF 2010 Best Board of directors award for Documentary Pan-African Film Festival (2010)Motherland wins at PAFF 2010
Cast The cast features key figures from the African political world, including: Barack Obama stock footage from visit to Africa Harry Belafonte Rohan Marley, son of Bob Marley and member of the Rastafari Movement Amiri Baraka Abdulkadir Ahmed Said, Somali filmmaker Maulana Karenga Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa Frances Cress Welsing Molefi Kete Asante Kimani Nehusi Chen Chimutengwende, Minister of Information and Publicity Zimbabwe Meles Zenawi, late Prime Minister of Ethiopia David Commissiong Ali Mazrui Mohamed Ibn Chambas, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission Haki R. Madhubuti Hakim Adi Nicole Lee, TransAfrica Forum Tsedenia Gebremarkos Zanele Hlatshwayo, Mayor of Pietermaritzburg Gamal Nkrumah, son of Ghana's first President Kwame Nkrumah Jeff Radebe, African National Congress Didymus Mutasa, ZANU-PF Abune Paulos, Patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Church Esther Stanford Kwesi Kwaa Prah S'bu Ndebele Adama Samassékou Desmond Tutu (deleted by directors)
5.1 surround Motherland is mixed in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround.
See also History of Africa Maafa Pan-Africanism List of films featuring slavery
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