Movie African Perspectives

African Perspectives: Kukurantumi: Road to Accra © Courtesy of King Ampaw

Thu, 05.09.2019

6:30 PM

Goethe-Institut Ghana

Kukurantumi: Road to Accra


Director: King Ampaw - 95 Minutes, Ghana 1983
 
This revealing African comedy / drama contrasts the hectic life in Accra with the relative peace of Kukurantumi, located in the Ghanaian countryside. A truck driver plies his trade between the two locations with few problems until he is forced to replace his truck. In order to raise the money to get a new vehicle, he sells stolen watches and promises a rich merchant to offer her daughter for marriage.
 

 

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