Afro Colombian films in DC at the OAS: Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Manuel Zapata Olivella
The lives of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Manuel Zapata Olivella, two great Afro Colombians that have influenced the culture, arts and history of Colombia and the rest of the Indigenous American continent are featured in a film series presented next week by the the Art Museum of the Americas at the OAS – Organization of the American States. The movies are in Spanish with English subtitles.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, known as “Gabo” is one of the most famous writers in the world and the best Colombian writer ever, awarded with the Nobel literature, and also a teacher and a political activist, great supporter of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Unfortunately most of Gabo’s biographies do not mention his African roots and I am not sure if he has acknowledged it himself.
Manuel Zapata Olivella is perhaps the most influential civil rights Afro Colombian leader, and also a writer, anthropologist, scholar and a sociologist. His life is an example of sacrifice and struggle to help his community to overcome centuries of oppression and abuse. See the movie’s website here (in Spanish).
Manuel Zapata Olivella: Abridor de caminos
Buscando a Gabo
Wednesday November 5
6:30 PM
GSB Building, Terrace Level
1889 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
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