Night of The Kings: La Maca Prison & The Shadow of French Colonialism Over Ivory Coast

We speak to Phillip Lacôte, director of the film ‘Night of The Kings’, a film about life inside one of West Africa’s most notorious prisons ‘La Maca’, which is located in Ivory Coast. He discusses the film’s goal to portray the longstanding West African tradition of griots passing on history; poems and stories orally, his own mother being incarcerated at La Maca, how society operates in prisons, the colonial rule of Ivory Coast by France and how France still continues to dominate Ivory Coast’s economics and politics and much more!