IN CINEMA

Congo In Harlem 16
SOUL POWER
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price 
Sunday, October 13th at 5PM

Co-Presented with Friends of the Congo

Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, 2008, 92 min.

Zaire ’74, the brainchild of South African musician Hugh Masekela and American record producer Stewart Levine, was a three-day music festival that took place in Kinshasa in 1974, planned to coincide with the now legendary “Rumble in the Jungle” between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman. SOUL POWER documents the extraordinary event, which featured musical legends James Brown, B.B. King, Bill Withers, the Fania All Stars, Miriam Makeba, and others. Most of the American performers, emboldened by the civil rights movement, were visiting Africa for the first time, exploring their roots and somewhat naïve beliefs about the dictator Mobuto Sese Seko. Much more than a concert film, SOUL POWER provides a dynamic fly-on-the-wall look into the turbulent proceedings, with on-the-spot commentary from the musicians and concert organizers, street life in Kinshasa, and backstage access to one of the most extraordinary concerts ever filmed.