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Say Brother; African Liberation Committee Film; A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues)
Part of From the Vault. Part of Pan-African Liberation.
10/25/1973
A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese. Produced and narrated by American activists Robert Van Lierop, it details the relationship of the liberation to the wider regional and continental demands for self-determination against minority rule. It notes the complicit roles of foreign governments and companies in supporting Portugal against the African nationalists. Footage from the front lines of the struggle helps contextualize FRELIMOs African socialist ideology, specifically the role of the military in building the new nation, a commitment to education, demands for sexual equality, the introduction of medical aid into the countryside, and the role of culture in creating a single national identity. Summary and select metadata for this record was submitted by R. Joseph Parrott.
License Clip
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- African Liberation Committee Film
- Program Number
306
- Title
A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues)
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Guests Caroline Hunter, Dinizulu Ceitou of Boston's African Liberation Day Committee and Christopher Nteta of the Pan African Liberation Committee discuss the liberation struggle in Mozambique with host Topper Carew. Topics include Frelimo (the African freedom fighters in Mozambique), the influence of Black American support on the cause, the relationship between corporations and the seizure of African land, the need for violence to achieve liberation, the relationship between racism and colonization, and the need for Black Americans to recognize that the African struggle is their struggle. Program includes a 30 minute film titled "The Struggle Continues (A Luta Continua)," which documents the work of the resistance.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African Liberation Support Committee Activist Organization
- Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Committee Activist Organization
- African Liberation Day
- Hunter, Caroline
- Lierop, Robert F. van
- Mozambique Liberation Struggle
- A Luta Continua
- Namibia Liberation Struggle
- Guinea-Bissau Liberation Struggle
- Portuguese Empire - Decolonization
- Nteta, Chris
- South Africa Liberation Struggle
- Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle
- Ceitou, Dinizulu
- Angola Liberation Struggle
- Pan-African Liberation Committee Activist Organization
- Polaroid - Company
- Carew, Topper, 1943-
- FRELIMO Political Party
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Contributors
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Carew, Topper, 1943- (Host)
- Nteta, Chris (Guest)
- Lierop, Robert F. van (Filmmaker)
- Johnson, Henry (Filmmaker)
- Jones, Vickie (Associate Producer)
- Fletcher, Robert (Cinematographer)
- Barrow, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- Hunter, Caroline (Guest)
- Ceitou, Dinizulu (Guest)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; African Liberation Committee Film; A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues),” 10/25/1973, GBH Archives, accessed December 21, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7E8FD3E200F84CC3ABEE5D8CCC94FD12.
- MLA: “Say Brother; African Liberation Committee Film; A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues).” 10/25/1973. GBH Archives. Web. December 21, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7E8FD3E200F84CC3ABEE5D8CCC94FD12>.
- APA: Say Brother; African Liberation Committee Film; A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues). Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7E8FD3E200F84CC3ABEE5D8CCC94FD12