An extraordinary trial is taking place in a residential courtyard in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. African citizens have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the IMF, whom civil society blames for perpetuating Africa’s debt crisis, at the heart of so many of the continent’s woes. Sissako hired professional lawyers and judges along with ‘witnesses’ to play their own role.
Retrospective The Colonial Question
The Court
Bamako
Abderrahmane Sissako
2006
/France, Mali, United States
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