Guinea • Sekou Touré, the president who said no
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The actor Emil Abossolo plays Sekou Touré on the stage of the Théâtre des independances.
© Africolor
By: Vladimir Cagnolari
48 mins
Guinea is the first French-speaking African country to gain independence in 1958, by voting “no” in the referendum proposed by General de Gaulle.
The country will pay dearly for this refusal.
Sekou Touré comes back to explain his choice, and the years that followed.
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Cast: Emil Abossolo (actor), Fousseyni Doumbia (musician, guitar).
The Independence Theater
is a theatrical podcast freely inspired by the history of African independence, told in six episodes by six “Fathers of the Nation”.
A series written and directed by Vladimir Cagnolari, produced and captured by the Africolor festival and adapted by RFI for listening through headphones.
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