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Why Guinea-Bissauan economist Paulo Gomes is producing a documentary on Amílcar Cabral
Paulo Gomes is a former leader of the World Bank’s sub-Saharan African region and now advises African heads of state.
He uses the word &#;exorcism&#; to explain the process and series of events that led him to produce a documentary on Amílcar Cabral, the Guinea-Bissauan and Cape-Verdean engineer and freedom fighter who has become a bit of a cult figure for many young West-African rappers and activists.
When I met him in early March for an interview at a hotel restaurant in downtown Conakry, we agreed to discuss his new pet project.
Gomes described his country, Guinea Bissau, as a failed state in need of an intervention, as if the nation and its soul had become victims of a new form of demonic possession. Gomes described a country where nothing works; where people live in fear; a country that has lost its soul.
A documentary devoted to a national hero can become a cultural statement.
If,