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Register now at: https://wacnh.org/event-5432013Join us for a captivating documentary screening of The Great Green Wall (2019), featuring Inna Modja's journey through the Sahel region of Africa, as she travels across the continent creating a musical album inspired by the Great Green Wall. Launched in 2007 by the African Union, the Great Green Wall is an ambitious effort to span almost 5,000 miles from Senegal to Djibouti with a 9 mile deep wall of trees. If completed, this would constitute the largest living structure on the planet and would help slow the desertification of the Sahel and Sahara.
"By 2050 there will be over 1 billion people (in Africa) under the age of 25," says Inna. "By restoring the land, can we create an African dream?"
A winner of 6 international film festival awards, this documentary shares the stories of the people living on the front lines of climate change and how they are fighting back. Inna Modja aims to raise awareness of this existential crisis for the people of these 22 countries, through her music and this film.
At the conclusion of the film, the audience will break into facilitated small group conversations lead by leaders of Education for All Children, Rain for the Sahel and Sahara, the League of Conservation Voters, and the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire. Each group will focus on different areas of the film and will spark lasting community conversations.
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Portsmouth Public Library (NH), Portsmouth, United States
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