New movie: Fambul Tok (Family Talk)

Good news tends to get buried.  It has trouble competing with  head-line grabbers promoting the bizarre and frightening.

Fambul Tok is good news worth sharing.  It's the story of forgiveness and reconciliation quietly bringing Sierra Leone together after the horrors of a wretched civil war.

In Africa, before the colonial powers arrived, the people in a village would get together in the evening to discuss the events of the day, and to solve any problems that had arisen.  It was fambul tok, or family talk.

The first video is a trailer for the movie.  The second explains the concept of fambul tok, and the hopes for healing.

It's a logic of restoration -- helping perpetrators become useful community members again, rather than imprisonment.  See what you think.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. 

~Harriet Nelson