Africa Film Festival 2019: Migration and citizenship take center stage
06 October 2019 |
2:58 pm
Africans born and raised in Europe often go through great difficulties to acquire citizenship. Several of the features shown at the African Film Festival in Cologne, Germany highlighted this issue.
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