Details
Directed by: ELVIS SABIN NGAIBINO
Country:
Argentina, Central African Republic, Italy
Runtime: 1hr 13min
Year: 2020
Topics:
Personal Stories
Last Screened:
Thu 24th Mar 2022
In spite of their financial difficulties and the stigma they face at school, André and Albert fight to study and bring themselves up to the level of other students.
André and Albert are two young Aka pygmies from Mongoumba, near the border with Congo and DRC. They have a dream: bring the other Aka children to school.
Every afternoon, after their classes, they walk along winding paths, with a blackboard on their shoulder and slates in a bag, to go and teach their pupils from the forest, unschooled children of all ages, how to read and write. To finance their enterprise, they are betting on the next harvest of makongo (caterpillars), the Pygmies’ main source of income.
