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Zan Boko

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  • ""Gaston Kaborés film Zan Boko explores the conflict between tradition and modernity, a central theme in many contemporary African films, such as Keita and Ta Dona. It tells the poignant story of a village family swept up in the current tide of urbanization. In doing so, Zan Boko expertly reveals the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence society into an industrialized commodity economy. Zan Boko is also one of the first African films to explore the impact of the mass media in changing an oral society into one where information is packaged and sold."--Distributor's abstract."
  • "A drama from Burkina Faso, Africa. A peasant has his ancestral land confiscated by a wealthy businessman. A journalist investigates the story and loses his job when he reports on the peasant's victimization by a corrupt government. In Moré with English sub-titles."
  • "The peaceful rural life of Tinga and his family is disrupted by urban expansion and the arrival of a rich politician who builds a luxurious modern villa and objects to the smell of the animals raised by Tinga."
  • "Zan boko means "the place where the placenta is buried" and symbolizes the continuity between past and present in African village societies. Tells the story of one village swallowed up by one of Africa's large cities and the change from agrarian society to a mass media culture."
  • "A rural family's world is brutally disrupted when their ancestral village is absorbed by the expanding boundaries of their country's largest city. A crusading journalist takes up their cases against the powerful interests whose policies overwhelm traditional African society."

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  • "Motion pictures, Burkina Faso"
  • "Motion pictures, Moore language"
  • "Foreign language films"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Drama"
  • "Internet videos"
  • "Feature films"

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  • "Zan Boko = Homeland /un film de Gaston J.M. Kaboré ; avec Joseph Nikiema ... [et al.]"
  • "Zan boko = Homeland"
  • "Zan boko"
  • "Zan Boko"@en
  • "Zan Boko"

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