The Eyes of Ghana

Name: The Eyes of Ghana
Director: Ben Proudfoot
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Kwame Nkrumah, Emund Addo, Chris Hesse, Anita Afonu

1h 30m2025

About this film

93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.

Kwame NkrumahSelf (archive footage)
Emund AddoSelf
Chris HesseSelf
Anita AfonuSelf

Director: Ben Proudfoot
Genre: Documentary

Later dates

Curzon BloomsburyLondonfrom Fri 23 Oct

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