Amandla

Amandla A revolution in four part harmony. A winner in the Sundance Film Festival and personally an eye opener for anyone who is interested about the music from the liberation struggle (Apartheid era) e.g Meadowlands this is a song that most south Africans have come know but not truly understand its history and its part that it played in the South African history. This is one of the many songs that was sang by people who where being moved fromSophia town to a small controllable area called Meadowlands. Now a days we here the song and think that its a happy song because its lively but true and this is what this movie reviles to us. Amandla gives a deeper understanding in how and how much music was a catalyst to ending Apartheid in South Africa. When watching this movie in the beginning one many get a sense that this is going to talk about something we have all heard before but the more you watch the more you get griped by it because it shows us a different side to the Apartheid era that we knew was there just that it had not been visually brought to life. We get to see hear stories of how we black people expressed ourselves and fought back when it was tried to be taken away from us.

Amandla awetu

(power its ours)