My Destiny
Old men who brutally and relentlessly cling on to their roles as heads of state have become colossally negative images in many countries of Africa, including Senegal. When President Abdoulaye Wade wan…
My Destiny
Old men who brutally and relentlessly cling on to their roles as heads of state have become colossally negative images in many countries of Africa, including Senegal. When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events - meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips - from an "insider" perspective. —anonymous One Morning of 2011, three musicians friends, Thiat, Kilifeu and Gadiaga took the lead of a nationwide movement against a self-proclaimed "president-for-life". The film shows how millions of Senegalese took to the streets for democracy and goes further trying to figure out how you keep your dream alive after you made history. —Carthage Film Festival
My Destiny
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Old men who brutally and relentlessly cling on to their roles as heads of state have become colossally negative images in many countries of Africa, including Senegal. When President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, set up "Y'en a marre" ("We Are Fed Up"), with filmmaker Rama Thiaw soon coming on board to start documenting events - meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, trips - from an "insider" perspective.
—anonymous One Morning of 2011, three musicians friends, Thiat, Kilifeu and Gadiaga took the lead of a nationwide movement against a self-proclaimed "president-for-life". The film shows how millions of Senegalese took to the streets for democracy and goes further trying to figure out how you keep your dream alive after you made history. —Carthage Film Festival.