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The Black Woodstock

This is a documentary-film about a concert that took place in Ghana as a celebration of the country's independence in 1970. Though the footage may be grainy and slightly disjointed (having no narrator), it beautifully portrays the celebration, and the interaction between the performers and their audience. For anyone who has seen ‘Tina’, the awful adaptation of Tina Turner’s biography, watch for the malevolent interaction between Ike and Tina on stage and their icy reaction to Wilson Pickett’s reception at the Ghanaian airport.

Despite the poor production values, which give it a similar feel to the Woodstock documentary, this is wonderful exploration of what it meant to many black musicians in the 1970s to return to Africa, and what it meant in turn for the Ghanaian people to receive the royalty of Black music.