Mamá África promotes the visibility of the rich history, joys and potentialities of the African continent as well as the daily lives and struggles for the inclusion of the cultures and ways of being of the African in the Americas. It examines the impacts of the MAAFA (trade of enslaved Africans) and the process of enslavement, with a focus on how people have overcome these oppressions thanks to the political, social and cultural resources developed by African peoples in the processes of working for independence and decolonization.
The film travels through what we know as “The Enslavement Route” between Ogo, Nigeria and the Caribbean and is inserted within the intercultural integration policies that have been advance by UNESCO within the decade of People of African Descent.
Mamá África is both educational and entertaining, offering alternative perspectives on the culture of the peoples of Nigeria and Venezuela through a look at their religious, cultural, social and political systems. The communities highlighted are in various states of Nigeria, and Bobures, Palmarito, Congo Mirador Zulia in Venezuela.