A new wave of colonialism is hitting Africa. Filmmaker Joakim Demmer investigates this murky world of foreign investors buying farmland in developing countries – land grabbing. The contradictions are plain to see. On the one hand the World Bank hails them for eradicating poverty, on the other hand we see Ethiopians losing access to their land, livelihoods, and food. Executive producer Fredrik Gertten.
(Joakim Demmer, Sweden/Germany/Finland, 2016, 80 mins)
Ethiopian Advocacy Network (EAN), an Ethiopian Human Rights Advocacy group
Invites you,
Please come to the screening of a documentary by the Sweedish Director Joakim Demer
DEAD DONKEYS FEAR NO HYENAS
and a post screening discussion on Land Grab afterwards
Key Note Speaker
Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, The Oakland Institute
Argaw Ashine, Ethiopian journalist , who worked and is also part of on the documentary
Sasha Chavkin, reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Date: March 8, 2018
8:00 PM
Avalon Theater
5612 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20015
