CANDOMBE Purchasing Options:DVD Only and a lucid depiction of

and a lucid depiction of the contemporary African continent

Mostefa Djadjam

The film focuses on her life and work from a  perspective that analyses images of Black people in popular culture

* London BFI

CANDOMBE Purchasing Options:DVD Only and a lucid depiction ofCANDOMBE DIRECTED BY RAFAEL DEUGENIO URUGUAY 1993 SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 16 MIN SYNOPSIS More than two hundred years ago, there was an influx into Uruguay of enslaved Africans whom, after being freed, continued to make up the poorest and most marginalized strata in society. Fernando Nunez, a black man, a musician, and a maker of drums, sees himself as the heir to "Candombe", an important social and cultural legacy from his enslaved