Countdown at Kusini (1976)
A Dynamite Story of African Revolution!
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
- Date of release
- 1976-04-16
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Ossie Davis
Casting
- Ruby Dee — Leah Matanzima
- Ossie Davis — Ernest Motapo
- Greg Morris — Red Salter
- Tom Aldredge — Ben Amed
- Michael Ebert — Charles Henderson
- Thomas Baptiste — John Okello
- Jab Adu — Juma Bakari
- Elsie Olusola — Mamouda
- Funsho Adeolu — Marni
Interesting facts
Countdown at Kusini is a 1976 American-Nigerian action-drama film written by Howard Friedlander and Ed Spielman and directed by Ossie Davis.
Production
The film was conceived and entirely financed by Delta Sigma Theta, an African-American sorority that owned DST Telecommunications, which produced material to counter the "inaccurate portrayal of Black people in media".
Filming took place in August 1974 in Lagos, Nigeria with both U.S. and Nigerian crews.
Dee, Davis, and Morris deferred their salaries until the film made a profit.
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