Screening of Akwantu: The Journey - A Documentary

  • Saturday, February 04, 2017
  • 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Thurgood Marshall Center 1816 12th Street NW Washington, DC

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Akwantu:  The Journey  - A Documentary

Akwantu: the Journey documents the struggle for freedom of the Maroons of Jamaica who were able to flee the plantations and slave ships to form communities in some of the most inhospitable regions of the island.  Roy T. Anderson, Jamaican-born, New Jersey-based filmmaker, conceived Akwantu: the Journey after years of research and dozens of interviews that took him from remote regions of Jamaica's Blue and John Crow Mountains, to the coastal regions of Ghana and its interior, then finally to the mysterious and isolated Maroon community of Accompong.  This ground breaking documentary film tells the story of a people whose enduring saga has too often been misunderstood or omitted from the history books.