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Through the Door of No Return

1997

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Through the Door of No Return
Mypheduh Films

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Runtime: 80 min

Average vote: 0

Release date: 1997-09-06

Director: Shirikiana Aina

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In a personal quest, filmmaker Shirikiana Aina made this documentary capturing her efforts to learn more about her father, who died when she was a child. A Michigan man descended from slaves, he was labeled a radical by the FBI. Aina traveled to Ghana, documenting an oral history of slavery in Elmina, a port where Africans were warehoused before shipping to the New World. She also filmed African-Americans who have established a colony in Ghana, choosing to raise their families there.

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