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Twenty years after breaking the rules at a strict colonial boarding school, two estranged friends reunite at the funeral of their infamous classmate, Apollo to relive the rebellion that nearly burned their school down.
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As climate-fueled floods and plastic pollution threaten Accra, a waste picker and community chief dives daily into the polluted Odaw River to recover discarded plastic, revealing both the human cost of environmental neglect and the promise of a circular economy.
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After returning to his home country Ghana, Michael Adjei-Wright is a Cambridge Law graduate who has decided to take on a job position in a bureaucratic, corrupt and under-paying government firm. He’s on a mission to crack the system – to break the innate mentality and corrupt nature that exists within the minds of the government workers. The system keeps frustrating him and it’s obvious the change he seeks to effect will be almost an impossible feat. This spirals into a continent-wide anthology of ordinary people trapped inside the systems they refuse to change.
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Asomani is an unsung hero of sorts in Ghanaian history: a canny businessman who overthrew the Danish from the Christianbourg Castle in the late 17th century. Asomani was the only Ghanaian known to have defied European traders in that time in Africa by taking over their fort using sheer wit and business acumen. Although he resold the castle to the Danish after a year, he withheld the keys to the castle and till today it forms a part of the Akwamu’s(a tribe in Ghana) stool possession.
The Christianbourg castle in Ghana is an iconic symbol of a colonial baton overlooking the sea: an epitome of power, trade and superiority but more importantly the symbolic bridge between trade in Ghana and the Western world. It is one of the strongest and most expensive forts ever built on the coast of Ghana, occupied at different times by the English, Swedish, Danish and of course Asomani.
The film’s story shows the rise of a clever African who started off by “learning the ways of the whiteman” as a cook in the castle and in a matter of years became the most successful merchant from Africa rivaling all the Europeans on the Gold coast(now Ghana) at that time. Asomani is however a flawed hero as he became too ‘Western’ after conquering the castle, lavishing in and craving the sophisticated lifestyle and also involving in the very trade that suppressed his people: trade in gold, ivory and slaves.