''White and Black: Crimes of Color'' is a Canadian documentary directed by Jean-François Méan. Broadcast throughout Tanzania in 2010, it portrays the
discrimination, hardships and stigmatisation endured by persons with albinism in Tanzania.
Its premiere in Dar es Salaam was inaugurated by Tanzania's Prime Minister
Mizengo Pinda
Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda (born 12 August 1948) is a Tanzanian CCM politician who was Prime Minister of Tanzania from 2008 to 2015. He was a Member of Parliament from 2000 to 2015.
Life and career
Pinda was born in the Rukwa Region. . After its broadcast, the murder rate of persons with
albinism
Albinism is the congenital absence of melanin in an animal or plant resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and skin and pink or blue eyes. Individuals with the condition are referred to as albino.
Varied use and interpretation of the term ...
in Tanzania, which had been stable for three straight years, dramatically decreased (90%). The film became the cornerstone of Pamoko: a multimedia awareness campaign to end trade for albino body parts in Tanzania. It included notable Tanzanian artists: K-sher, Fid Q, Bi Chau and King Majuto.
Synopsis
Since 2007, Tanzania a murder wave of persons with albinism has swept the country to fuel an illicit trade in their body parts.
Vicky Ntetema
Vicky Ntetema (born ) is a Tanzanian journalist known for breaking the story about the Persecution of people with albinism, murder of persons with albinism in Tanzania. Later, she became Executive Director of Under the Same Sun (UTSS) in Tanzania ...
, a BBC Swahili radio journalist decides to investigate this trade and expose the roots of the beliefs that fuel it.
She follows the fate of the survivors of the attacks: two young girls and one young boy with albinism who have narrowly escaped their murderers and have been displaced as a result. Their only refuge: a school for the blind where no one can see their lack of pigmentation.
White and Black is a militant documentary that surpassed its status an NGO film by being screened in film festivals across the world.
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Albinism in Tanzania