ABSTRACT
Heritage Africa marks a major contribution by the Ghanaian filmmaker Kwaw Ansah to African cinema, and the film is unique within the context of anglophone African filmmaking in the 1980s. The film is set against the backdrop of the anti-colonial movement of the late 1950s. Ghana was the first black African country to gain its independence from the European imperials powers, and its first President, Kwame Nkrumah, placed anti-colonial nationalism and pan-African ideals at the heart of his regime. Heritage Africa was Kwaw Ansah's second major feature film. Like Love Brewed in the African Pot and Crossroads of People: Crossroads of Trade, Heritage was produced independently, and its narrative is imbued with a pressing sense of cultural revivalism, as Kwaw Ansah paints an African culture with its unique political and cultural systems. Heritage Africa is different from the other films in Ansah's filmography.
