{"id":35364,"date":"2014-01-12T02:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T02:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35364"},"modified":"2014-01-12T02:58:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T02:58:44","slug":"afro-vietnamese-orphans-tell-their-stories-in-%e2%80%98indochina-traces-of-a-mother%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35364","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Vietnamese Orphans Tell Their Stories in \u2018Indochina: Traces of a Mother\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afro-Vietnamese Orphans Tell Their Stories in \u2018Indochina: Traces of a Mother\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Film Center\/Archive<\/a>
\nIndiana University, Bloomington
\n2012-04-25<\/p>\n

A new(er) documentary film by Idrissou Mora-Kpai follows the stories of Afro-Vietnamese orphans born of Vietnamese mothers and West African fathers \u2013 tirailleurs s\u00e9n\u00e9galais<\/em> – brought by the French to fight la sale guerre<\/a><\/em>, mostly in today\u2019s Viet Nam. The synopsis:<\/p>\n

Through the story of Christophe, a 58-year-old Afro-Vietnamese man, the film reveals the little known history of African colonial soldiers enlisted to fight for the French in Indochina. Christophe was one of seven Afro-Vietnamese orphans adopted by one of those soldiers when he returned to Benin<\/a> after the war. The film explores the long lasting impact of bringing together two populations who previously had no ties and sheds light on a frequent practice within colonial history, that of using one colonized people to repress the independence claims of another colonized people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Told in Vietnam and Benin, the film gives space for the grown Afro-Vietnamese orphans to tell their stories, but also to explore the contradictions of the colonial order…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n