Cast
Ériq Ebouaney
Gonaba
Nadège Beausson-Diagne
Simone
S
Sonia Zembourou
Kali
Philippe Mory
The Prefect
MovieDramaAdventure
The Silence of the Forest
20031h 33m6.3Directed by Didier Ouénangaré
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rainforest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)
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