500 Years Later
Released: February 24, 2005Runtime: 106 min
Why do drugs, crime, HIV, poor education, inferiority complexes, low expectations, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plague people of African descent around the world? Why, 500 years after the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, do Africans still struggle for basic freedom? Filmed in more than twenty countries across five continents, 500 YEARS LATER examines the atrocities that uprooted Africans from their cultures and homeland. Infused with the spirit and music of liberation, it chronicles the struggle of a people who fight for the most essential human right: freedom.
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Kolfi Adu
as Self - African Storyteller
Sona Jobarteh
as Self - Kora Player
Hunter Adams Iii
as Self - Neuroscientist
Hakim Adi
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Toyin Agbetu
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Mukasa Afrika
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Ras Kumasi
as Self - Afruika Bantu School Teacher
Adisa Alkebulan
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Molefi Kete Asante
as Self - Professor Temple University
Afrar Afriyea
as Self - Afruika Bantu Saturday School
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