Critical Note on Camara’s film Dakan
Dakan is one of the movies directed by Guinea director and filmmaker Camara which started debate particularly in the Guinea society and generally in Africa and caught the attention of the whole world especially Europe and America after its initial release days because it raised and asked some very hard and untraditional questions which were not allowed to speak, answer, ask, argue, raise and those questions are about concept and practice of heterogeneity which is predominantly guiding people in the African world, emergence or revelation of homosexuality which was covered hidden before people and the world in Africa and the third question is the dare of Queering Africa. As Beti Ellerson (2005) puts it in the context, “the film revealed and manifested the assurance of black gay identity, both for black Africans who reside in the Western world and black gays who are of African descent”.
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