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Against All Odds

Distributed by Michigan State University Press, Suite 25, Manly Miles Building, 1405 South Harrison Road, East Lansing, MI 48823-5245; 517/355-9543Produced by Msgun Zerai, Audio Visual Institute of EritreaDirected by Charles Cantalupo2004, DVD, color, 55 min. Against the Odds is the story of the African literary and cultural conference held in Asmara, Eritrea in 2000. This gathering of writers, scholars, publishers, government ministers, students, and the general public has “laid the groundwork for the empowerment of African languages” and examined the how colonialism and the imposition of wes…