My Top Tracks: Miriam Makeba, Pata Pata

12th post of My Top Tracks Tutu I went to see Tutu this week, a newly released film about Desmond Tutu, Anglican Bishop and Archbishop in South Africa through many of its apartheid years. Two South African journalists, Benny Goole and Roger Friedman, followed Tutu from 2000 for about 20 years filming his activities, with his blessing. The film got stored at the University of Cape Town to be dug out later. Some of the footage had been destroyed by fire but the rest was enthusiastically gathered together, combined with other coverage of Archbishop Tutu, and made into a compelling documentary. Interviews with friends and comrades of Tutu and with the filmmakers Bennie and Roger are included. It's a great film, I can't see how anyone could fail to be entranced by it, in part because of the personality of its subject Tutu, warm, exuberant, charismatic, passionate, humorous, attentive, emotional, an engaging public speaker, and committed through his life, at great risk, to the struggle…

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