# Afrique 50

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{{Infobox film
| name           = Afrique 50
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| director       = [René Vautier](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Vautier)
| producer       = Ligue française de l'Enseignement
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| starring       = 
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| released       = {{Film date|1950}}
| runtime        = 17 minutes
| country        = France
| language       = French
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| gross          = 
| screenplay     = René Vautier
| cinematography = René Vautier
| editing        = René Vautier
| music          = Keita Fodela
}}

'''''Afrique 50''''' {{IPA|fr|a.fʁik sɛ̃.kɑ̃t|}} is a 1950 French documentary film directed by [René Vautier](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Vautier). The first French anti-colonialist film, the film derived from an assignment in which the director was to cover educational activities by the [French League of Schooling](/source/French_League_of_Schooling) in West Africa (in modern [Mali](/source/Mali) and [Ivory Coast](/source/Ivory_Coast)). Vautier later filmed what he saw, a "lack of teachers and doctors, the crimes committed by the French Army in the name of France, the instrumentalization of the colonized peoples". For his role in the film Vautier was imprisoned over several months. The film was not permitted to be shown for more than 40 years.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4gpEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22afrique+50%22&pg=PA43|title=A Companion to Documentary Film History|first=Joshua|last=Malitsky|date=April 13, 2021|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781119116295 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68HhDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22afrique+50%22&pg=PT102|title=Radical Cinema: Christian Lebrat|first=Christian|last=Lebrat|date=May 7, 2020|publisher=Eyewash Books|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aeStAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22afrique+50%22&pg=PA105|title=Cinema and Development in West Africa|first=James E.|last=Genova|date=September 25, 2013|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253010117 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

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Category:1950 films
Category:1950 short documentary films
Category:French short documentary films
Category:Films set in the French colonial empire
Category:Documentary films about African resistance to colonialism
Category:Anticolonial film
Category:Films directed by René Vautier
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:Films shot in Mali
Category:Films shot in Ivory Coast
Category:1950 French films
Category:1950 French-language films

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