Alpha Blondy, a fight for freedom "traces the life and work of the star of African reggae.
Alpha Blondy, a fight for freedom, "a documentary Dramane Cisse and Antoinette Delafin, just released. Its filmmakers paint a portrait of reggae pioneer African aged 60 years and has over 30 year career. Life Seydou Kone, whose real name is traced through interviews. The film is so far not a hagiography. The artist has agreed to evoke less glorious aspects of his career: the drugs, the passage in a psychiatric hospital ... Controversial also, its constantly changing political sides.
Alpha Blondy was successively anti and pro-Houphouet-Boigny. At his death in December 1993, he supported his successor, Henri Konan Bedie, then he will challenge the xenophobic concept of ivoirité, and turned to his rival, Alassane Ouattara, like him, Muslim north and the target of this policy. But during the 2000 election, the singer endorsed the candidacy Laurent Gbagbo, while the opponent is the only candidate chosen weight against General Guei. Renewed support, said the film, during the campaign for the presidential election of 2010, although has since called his "brother Gbagbo" to recognize the victory of Alassane Ouattara . On camera, as a justification for these reversals, Alpha Blondy said following a board of Houphouet-Boigny who told him one day: "Why do you swim against the tide, it is easier to swim with the stream for citizenship. "
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