Black Limbo

This session presents the recent feature film Negro limbo. Based on an investigation lasting more than 6 years, the documentary takes us, in the form of a detective thriller, from San Sebastian to Equatorial Guinea on the trail of Acacio Mañé, a member of the Patronato de Indígenas and one of the leaders of the National Liberation Movement of Equatorial Guinea, arrested and disappeared at the end of the 1950's. The colonial past is embodied in the film by one of the investigators, who is the son of the Attorney General of Equatorial Guinea who was responsible for the case of the disappearance of Acacio Mañé. The colonial past is embodied in the film by one of the investigators, who is the son of the Attorney General in charge of the case of Mañé's disappearance. Their investigations lead them through official and personal spaces and documents on the colonial memory, such as the rooms of the General Archive of the Administration, amateur film footage and photographic albums of the religious congregations stationed in the then Spanish Guinea. Finally, the arrival in present-day Guinea allows an encounter with the roots of Mañé's history and with Spanish colonial history itself, asking from the present how to repair the evils of colonization.