Amandla Wamagama | The Power of Words | By Bonilla

1. How does the film, Kangamba, show Cuban internationalism in Angola? The movie potrays Cuba as a country with a really important role in supporting Angola and other african nations. Pretty much as a savior for those that are trying to achieve freedom and democracy in their territory. Cuba's Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (Revolutionary Armed Forces) or FAR, after the Cuban Revolution, took a assisting role for other countries, especially those known as the Third World for many reasons, one of them being the empathy Castro felt with those nations, seeing something similar to a pre-revolutionary Cuba in them. 2. What was the most impactful scene for you? Why? There is a bunch of scenes that comes to me mind when talking about "impactful" in this movie and one of them is when we get to see the Cuban and Angolan soldiers sneaking to the bottom part of a truck to take some water from it, desperately (and I mean DESPERATELY) drinking what they were able t...

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film? It's great to see the Apartheid conflict from the point of view of a ''normal'' man that's not into politics (at first at least), a family man who's goal it's to work hard in order to mantain his family and survive the horrible misfortunes that the regime causes in his life. A lot of the movies we've seen since the start has been about ''prominent'' figures like Mandela or so, this is the exception, a very nice exception. I also liked its variety of characters (men, women, blacks, whites) that went for and agaisnt the revolution, it really influenced in the various ways and perspectives we see in the film. I loved the scene of the ANC training at Mozambique, when Obadi chants ''Are you ready to die?'' and everyone responds ''Yes commander'', it really makes you feel the will of the people there to give it all for their objetive, change ...