Agency - French program:.Québec Studio.

Research, Musa Dieng Kala ; script, Musa Dieng Kala ; direction, Musa Dieng Kala ; camera, Alex Margineanu ; location sound, Louis Léger ; picture editing, Marie Hamelin ; sound editing, Catherine Van Der Donckt, Bruno Pucella ; foley, Lise Wedlock ; re-recording, Luc Léger ; original music, Musa Dieng Kala ; visual archives research, Michèle Houle ; executive producer, Yves Bisaillon, Colette Loumède ; producer, Colette Loumède, Christian Medawar.

Participant, Jeff Kader, null Ibrahima, null Ahmadou, null Omar, null Djiby, Mor Sene, Abib Ndao, Madior Ndiaye, Papa Barry, Aïcha Diouf, Modou N'Diaye, Nogaye Mboup, Adja Barry, Diallo Thierno ; narration, Musa Dieng Kala, Famara Kujabi.

Recorded 2008.

Brussels, August 1999. Two teenagers from Guinea are found dead in the undercarriage of a plane from Conakry. Each year, thousands of young Africans like them risk their lives to flee a continent scourged by war and endemic poverty. Shocked by this growing phenomenon, the Senegal-born director Musa Dieng Kala returns to Dakar, where he grew up, and asks the painful question: Has God Forsaken Africa? The answer is bitter. As he films five young adults seeking to immigrate to the West at any cost, the filmmaker unearths the impotence of individuals faced with international indifference and the unconcern of the leaders of a society emptied of its resources and incapable of meeting its needs. A moving film that makes the case for a global ecology in which no nation or people is abandoned.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

AQCC Award for the Best Short or Medium Length Documentary, 2009 Bank of Africa Special Prize- with a cash prize of 2 000 000 F CFA ($5000 CDN), 2009 SCIC Global Issues Award, 2009

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).